Carolyn Lambert 
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Smaller Stories [PDF ebook] 

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This book re-locates Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘smaller stories’ in the literary and cultural context of the nineteenth century. While Gaskell is recognised as one of the major novelists of her time, the short stories that make up a large proportion of her published work have not yet received the critical attention they deserve. This study re-claims them as an indispensable part of her literary output that enables us to better contextualize and assess her achievement holistically as a highly-skilled woman of letters. The periodicals in which Gaskell’s shorter pieces were published offer a microcosm of nineteenth-century society, and Gaskell took full advantage of the medium to apply a consistent and barbed challenge to cultural and gendered constructs of roles and social behaviour. Although her eminently readable prose still flows easily in her short stories, it is less likely to elide the sharp corners of domestic violence, the disabling experiences of women, the pain of death and loss, andthe complications of family life.

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Table of Content


1 Introduction.- 2 The Gothic and the Ghostly.- 3 Fairy Tales.- 4 Narrating Sexuality.- 5 Narrative Architecture.- 6 Conclusion.

About the author


Carolyn Lambert is the author of The Meanings of Home in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction (2013), co-editor with Marion Shaw of For Better, For Worse: Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women (2018) and the author of Frances Trollope (2020).

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 201 ● ISBN 9783030797058 ● File size 2.4 MB ● Publisher Springer International Publishing ● City Cham ● Country CH ● Published 2021 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7922898 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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