RT Article
T1 Reality Sensing in Elizabeth Gaskell: Or, Half-Mended Stockings
JF ELH
VO 83
IS 3
SP 821
OP 837
A1 Pinch, Adela 1960-
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1909412627
AB 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.
DO 10.1353/elh.2016.0031