The 19th-century British writer can by no means said to be liberated from Victorian patriarchal ideology, admits Camus (Dijon U.), but she finds that his madwomen are different, more human somehow, than his sane heroines. That indicates to her that he had a different perception of gender, even if half-conscious, than his peers; and that imagination is one of the ways of getting closer to the truth. She looks at patterns of madness; public and private spheres; madness visible; the discourse of madwomen; and women, power, and punishment in his major novels. The text is double spaced. Only names are indexed. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Gender and Madness in the Novels of Charles Dickens (Studies in British Literature, 90)

Literature & Fiction

Camus, Marianne

British & Irish

Edwin Mellen Pr

Dr. Camus' study first tries to reinstate Gaskell as one of the significant novelists of the mid Victorian period through looking at her work as a whole, avoiding the usual dividing line between her condition-of-England novels and her more intimate fiction. It then aims at inscribing Gaskell in the tradition of women writers who wrote not only for literary posterity but also to express and defend a woman's vision of the world. The feminist aspect of Gaskell's writing is uncovered here in all its determination but also in its hesitations.

Women's Voices in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865 (Women's Studies)

History & Criticism

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Gender and Madness in the Novels of Charles Dickens (Studies in British Literature, 90)

Women's Voices in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-1865 (Women's Studies)