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Genre/Form: | Thèses et écrits académiques |
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Named Person: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation, Manuscript |
Document Type: | Book, Archival Material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Norosoa Auberthine Rakotomena-Rajonson; Michel Baridon; Université de Bourgogne. |
OCLC Number: | 490123206 |
Description: | 1 vol. (427 f.) ; 30 cm. |
Responsibility: | Norosoa Auberthine Rakotomena-Rajonson ; sous la direction de Michel Baridon. |
Abstract:
The study of ethics, of world vision, as it is seen through Mrs Gaskell's novels, is the gist of the present work. The corpus of the study is made up of Mary Barton, Cranford, North and South, Ruth, Sylvia's lovers wives and daughters. This study rests on the analysis of the victorians' reactions when faced with the ongoing transformations. The first part offers a picture of the socio-economic scene of Manchester where Mrs Gaskell spent most of her lifetime. It analyses the repercussions of the changes brought about by urbanization and industrialization on the socio-economic side of the nancunians' lives. The second part describes the intellectual scene through an analysis of the various reactions of the characters towards education and science, business and trade, religion, politics, and other questions linked to moral problems. The third part attempts a synthesis, a kind of evaluation of the previous two parts. It analyses some means implemented by the novelist to weigh on her readers, to influence them as regards her own stance towards the moral problems of the period.
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