Difference between revisions of "Cranford (Gaskell, 1853)"
From Commonplace Book
(→General) |
(→General) |
||
| Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
*4 positioning the audience as urban: "Have you any red silk umbrellas in London?" | *4 positioning the audience as urban: "Have you any red silk umbrellas in London?" | ||
* also not talking about money and the class contrast with commerce and trade prefiguring [[North and South (Gaskell, 1855)]] | * also not talking about money and the class contrast with commerce and trade prefiguring [[North and South (Gaskell, 1855)]] | ||
| + | *5 vulgarity, "elegant economy" keywords | ||
| + | *6 protesting against the train - modernity | ||
==Theme Tracking== | ==Theme Tracking== | ||
Revision as of 15:59, 21 October 2017
Elizabeth Gaskell. Cranford. Pub. 1851-3. Ed. Elizabeth Porges Watson and Dinah Birch. Oxford World's Classics, 2011.
General
- serialized in Household Words Dec 1851-May 1853, whilst Bleak House (1853) was being published
- Forster a fan (Intro)
- 4 positioning the audience as urban: "Have you any red silk umbrellas in London?"
- also not talking about money and the class contrast with commerce and trade prefiguring North and South (Gaskell, 1855)
- 5 vulgarity, "elegant economy" keywords
- 6 protesting against the train - modernity
Theme Tracking
Reading/Writing
Materiality
- cross ref with Schaffer 2011 on handicraft
