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050 00 $aPR4711$b.B55 2002
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100 1 $aBillington, Josie,$d1961-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001043752
245 10 $aFaithful realism :$bElizabeth Gaskell and Leo Tolstoy : a comparative study /$cJosie Billington.
260 $aLewisburg [Pa.] :$bBucknell University Press ;$aLondon ;$aCranbury, NJ :$bAssociated University Presses,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $a227 pages :$bfacsimiles ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 214-224) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tHelen and Wives and Daughters.$tAn Older World: Helen.$tFrom Helen to Wives and Daughters --$g2.$tReading Gaskell's (So-Called) "Homely Prose"$tSecond Thoughts: Small Revisions.$tThe Characteristic Syntax.$tTime and Memory --$g3.$tElizabeth Gaskell: A Social Novelist?$tMary Barton and North and South.$tSylvia's Lovers and Cousin Phillis --$g4.$tGaskell and Tolstoy.$tFrom The Cossacks to Anna Karenina.$tAnna versus Levin.$tEngland's Tolstoy - George Eliot? or Elizabeth Gaskell? --$g5.$tOn Life's Verge.$tWar and Peace: Beyond Life and Within Life.$tResurrection.$tConclusion: Gaskell and Tolstoy: Alternative Visions --$gApp. 1.$tFacsimile of passage from Wives and Daughters --$gApp. 2.$tFacsimile of passage from Sylvia's Lovers.
520 1 $a"Criticism of Elizabeth Gaskell of the last half century has tended to concentrate upon her contribution to the Victorian "social-problem" novel or upon her achievements as a female novelist writing about women. This book offers a reading of Elizabeth Gaskell's work which runs counter to the established view of her as a sociopolitical and/or provincial writer whose work is principally of interest to social historians or to those interested in women's studies.".
520 8 $a"Josie Billington seeks to resituate Gaskell's work within the wider tradition of nineteenth-century realism and argues that Gaskell deserves to be read not as a poor second to George Eliot but as offering an English Victorian equivalent of the religious realism of Leo Tolstoy.
520 8 $aBy bringing together for comparison two writers whose realist mode and vision rests upon a form of religious belief, and by setting these against the more skeptical forms of realism offered by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, the book also offers a strong challenge to the accepted view of the nineteenth-century realist novel as an essentially secular form - the epic, as Lukacs put it, of a world abandoned by God.".
520 8 $a"This book makes a highly original contribution to Gaskell scholarship not only in the fresh emphasis it gives to Gaskell's work, but in the subtle close reading it applies to original manuscript material and the consequent teasing out of Gaskell's characteristic habits of mind and composition. In addition, the book makes a valuable contribution to the study of nineteenth-century realist fiction in relation to belief and secularization in the Victorian period."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aGaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn,$d1810-1865$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aTolstoy, Leo,$cgraf,$d1828-1910$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aComparative literature$xEnglish and Russian.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009129953
650 0 $aComparative literature$xRussian and English.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009129954
650 0 $aRealism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111770
852 00 $bglx$hPR4711$i.B55 2002