Some Appointed Work To Do: Women and Vocation in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell

by Robin B. Colby

Elizabeth Gaskell's work and life are being rediscovered against a backdrop of Victorian middle-class women's experience by many feminist scholars. Viewed in this century as conventional and conservative, Gaskell may instead be regarded as a radical for her time, because she challenged widely-held assumptions about the nature of women, their proper sphere, and their participation in the public realm. Examining the theme of work in Gaskell's novels,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313293732
• ISBN13: 9780313293733
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"