Reality Sensing in Elizabeth Gaskell: Or, Half-Mended Stockings
This article uses Elizabeth Gaskell’s celebrated 1864 novella, Cousin Phillis, as a test case for theories of literary realism, focusing above all on the ways in which realism may more properly be explored as an affective, psychological structure than as an imitation of life. Cousin Phillis is both...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2016
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ELH
Année: 2016, Volume: 83, Numéro: 3, Pages: 821-837 |
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| Résumé: | This article uses Elizabeth Gaskell’s celebrated 1864 novella, Cousin Phillis, as a test case for theories of literary realism, focusing above all on the ways in which realism may more properly be explored as an affective, psychological structure than as an imitation of life. Cousin Phillis is both a deeply moving tale, and a theorization of realism’s own means and ends. In it, Gaskell explores not only the pathos of literature’s limited means of evoking a world, but also the ways in which these limits can link literary realism with emotions of remorse and regret, and gestures of recompense. |
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| ISSN: | 1080-6547 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: ELH
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/elh.2016.0031 |
