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The Meanings of Home in Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction

Autor Carolyn Lambert
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 oct 2013
In this beautifully written study, Carolyn Lambert explores the ways in which Elizabeth Gaskell challenges the nineteenth-century cultural construct of the home as a domestic sanctuary offering protection from the external world. Gaskell's fictional homes often fail to provide a place of safety: doors and windows are ambiguous openings through which death can enter, and are potent signifiers of entrapment as well as protective barriers. The underlying fragility of Gaskell's concept of home is illustrated by her narratives of homelessness, a state she uses to represent psychological, social, and emotional separation. By drawing on novels, letters and non-fiction writings, Lambert shows how Gaskell's detailed descriptions of domestic interiors allow for nuanced and unconventional interpretations of character and behaviour, and evince a complex understanding of the significance of home for the construction of identity, gender and sexuality. Lambert's Gaskell is an outsider whose own dilemmas and conflicts are reflected in the intricate and multi-faceted portrayals of home in her fiction.
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ISBN-13: 9781906469474
ISBN-10: 1906469474
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Victorian Secrets