Animal Rights Activism
Kerstin Jacobsson, Jonas Lindblom
- Titel
- Elizabeth Gaskell, Citizen of the World: Civic Lessons
- Auteur
- Margriet Schippers
- Prijs
- € 41,95 excl. BTW
- ISBN
- 9789085551133
- Uitvoering
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 180
- Taal
- Engels
- Afmetingen
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Discipline
- Taal en Literatuur
Frequently Cited Texts and Abbreviations
Introduction:
Gaskell's Eighteenth-Century Rational Dissenting Heritage
Critical Heritage
Key Terms Explained: Citizen of the World and Civic Sermons
Family Influences
Gaskell's Civic Ideas in Embryo: A Case Study of The Moorland Cottage
Chapter Outline
1: 1838-1849 Apprenticeship with the Howitts
Literary Building Blocks: Letters, 'Cheshire Customs' and 'Clopton Hall
Entering the Howitts' Circle of Radical Activists
The Howitts' European and Transatlantic Consciousness
Howitt's Journal's Quest for Equality
What's in a Name?: Cotton Mather Mills, Esq
Contributing to Howitt's Journal: Promoting Co-operation
Contributing to Sartain's Union Magazine: Wit and the Critical Voice
2: 1850-1856 Battling Patriarchal Notions
Gaskell and the Woman Question
Dickens's Literary Influence
From 'Lizzie Leigh' to Ruth: Jobs for Women, Fallen Women and
Illegitimate Children
Turning the Tables: The Fallen Man in Matriarchal Society
Cranford in Haworth Territory
Eradicating Prejudice and Superstition: The Need for Enlightened Education
A Happy Ending?: Women's Open-Ended Story
3: 1853-1856 Fighting Religious Discrimination
Gaskell and Mme Mohl's Salon: Developing a European Consciousness
Setting the Scene: Religious Prejudice in England
F.D. Maurice's Influence on Gaskell's Work
North and South and the Problem of Religious Discrimination
Gaskell's Short Non-Fiction Works in Context
4: 1858-1860 Scrutinising the Dissenting Past
Old and New England: Bridging the Gap with Mabel Vaughan
History's Lessons: Revolution versus Moral Enlightenment
Sins of the Fathers: Gaskell's Civic Lessons for America
'Curious, if True': Releasing the Past to Herald in the Future
Christian Leadership Defined
Misinterpreting the Past: Personal Lessons Learned
5: 1863 Fashion Versus Emancipation
The Distress in Southern Lancashire, the American Civil War and
Abolitionism
Sylvia's Lovers and the Rights of Man
'Shams' and 'The Cage at Cranford': The Shackles of Queen Fashion
'Robert Gould Shaw': Liberating the Outcast
Civic Lessons: The Culmination
Conclusion
Publication Details of Short Works Used in this Thesis
Margriet Schippers
Elizabeth Gaskell, Citizen of the World: Civic Lessons
Writing was Gaskell's campaigning tool, used for educational, networking and fundraising purposes. Though telling stories was her 'one talent', it took second place to imparting civic lessons. Gaskell's writing career encompassed major upheavals such as the revolutionary year 1848, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the Lancashire Cotton Famine, and rapid industrial and social change, and her works are seen to interact with current events. This thesis demonstrates that Gaskell's fiction and non-fiction, essays, short stories and novels work together and develop themes across time. Her wide variety of genres and themes are explained by the fact that she, like her forbears the eighteenth-century rational Dissenters, aimed to bring about a more just and inclusive society.
In order to comment on current events, Gaskell used historic examples of injustice and social problems from a wide range of countries. She also repeatedly evoked earlier social critics' work through quotes and allusions, and transformed it into a civic message for her own time. The thesis shows how Gaskell's philanthropic, social and literary works inform one another, and how interaction with social critics and reformers such as William and Mary Howitt, Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Florence Nightingale, F.D. Maurice and the Christian Socialists, Mme Mohl and her French acquaintances, Charles Eliot Norton, Maria Susanna Cummins and J.S. Mill influenced her.
Auteur
Margriet Schippers
Margriet Schippers has worked in Asia for the past twenty years. She is currently a lecturer at Peking University's Institute for Medical Humanities where she teaches American and English literature. Her research focuses on Dissenters in the Victorian period.
