Mary Barton : authoritative text, contexts, criticism

Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn 1810-1865 (Author). Recchio, Thomas. (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 9780393930634
ISBN: 0393930637
Physical Description: print
xxii, 649 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2008]
Copyright: ©2008

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-649).

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface __ A note on the text -- The text of Mary Barton -- Contexts -- The genesis of Mary Barton / John Geoffrey Sharps -- Letters : From Letters / Elizabeth Gaskell -- Letter to Mrs. Gaskell (November 8, 1848) / Thomas Carlyle -- Letter to Miss Holland (December 27, 1848) / Maria Edgeworth -- To the authoress of "Mary Barton" (March 9, 1849) / Samuel Bamford -- Contemporary reviews : Athenaeum (October 21, 1848) / Henry Fothergill Chorlay -- From unsigned review (October 28, 1848) / Manchester Literary Times -- Examiner (November 4, 1848) / John Forster -- From unsigned review (February 1849) / British Quarterly -- From unsigned review (February 1849) /Prospective Review -- Fraser's Magazine (April 1849) / Charles Kingsley -- From Edinburgh Review (April 1849) / W.R. Greg -- Libbie Marsh's three eras / Elizabeth Gaskell -- Results of industrialisation / Friedrich Engels -- From Manchester in 1844 : its present condition and future prospects / Leon M. Faucher -- The Mutual dependence of men in a social state / Anonymous -- The long strike : a drama in four acts / Dion Boucicault -- Illustrations -- Criticism : ("The gentle humanities of earth") / Kathleen Tillotson -- (Structure of feeling in Mary Barton) / Raymond Williams -- Dion Boucicault stages of Mary Barton / Richard D. Altick -- Mrs. Gaskell's reading : some notes on echoes and epigraphs in Mary Barton / Graham Handley -- (Carson's murder and the inadequacy of hope in Mary Barton) / John Lucas -- (Why we need Mary Barton) / John Lucas -- Private grief and public acts in Mary Barton / Rosemarie Bodenheimer -- Causality versus conscience : the problem of form in Mary Barton / Catherine Gallagher -- (The feminization of working-class men in Mary Barton) / Patsy Stoneman -- (Maternal authority in Mary Barton) / Hilary M. Schor -- (Class antagonism and the sexual plot in Mary Barton) / Deborah Epstein Nord -- (Morality and economics in Mary Barton) / Josephine M. Guy -- (The streetwalker and urban observations in Mary Barton) /Deirdre d'Albertis -- The curse of leisure : unemployment in Mary Barton / Susan Zlotnick -- (Trial alibi, and the novel as witness) / Jonathan H. Grossman -- Taxonomical cures : the politics of natural history and herbalist medicine in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton / Amy Mae King -- The imperial addiction of Mary Barton / Liam Corley -- Elizabeth Gaskell : a chronology.