Wayward Orphans and Lonesome Places
The Regional Reception of Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and North and South
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9325655 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Hammond (0000-0002-8481-1032, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 390-390 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-5222 • E-ISSN: 1527-2052 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/victorianstudies.60.3.02 |
| OpenAlex | W2788808505 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
This paper re-assesses previous accounts of the distinction between mid-nineteenth-century regional and provincial novels through an analysis of their appearances as fragmented, pirated extracts in the non-metropolitan press. Using two of Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels as exemplars and drawing on digitized newspapers, it demonstrates that in order to fully understand the relationship between these two sub-genres and the relative radical or conservative politics that have often been assumed to attend them, we must look beyond the formal properties of their author-sanctioned appearances in both volume and serial form, and analyse their creative re-use by small newspapers as part of local identity-building. The paper argues that in taking into account the embedding of fragments of fiction within local, provincial and regional print cultures, we can arrive at a more nuanced reading of their politics, and understand better their responsiveness to their own historical moments
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Mary Barton
What say you to free trade in literature?’ The Thief and the Politics of Piracy in the 1830s
Half Full and Half Empty
Rethinking Provincialism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Working-Class Masculinities in Mary Barton
The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |