Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007 - 130 páginas
Writing during periods of dramatic social change, Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell were both attracted to the idea of radical societal transformation at the same time that their writings express nostalgia for a traditional, paternalistic ruling class. Julie Nash shows how this tension is played out especially through the characters of servants in short fiction and novels such as Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Belinda, and Helen and Gaskell's North and South and Cranford, among others.
 

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Servants and Paternalism
11
Servants
31
Servants in Gaskells Domestic Fiction
53
Servants in Maria Edgeworths
75
Servants and Labor Relations in Gaskells Condition
95
Conclusion Well done thou good and faithful servant
115
Index
127
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Julie Nash is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.

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