Critical studies of GE
's work solo and in relation to other writers or particular themes are legion. Important earlier critics include Barbara Hardy
and U. C. Knoepflmacher
. Inquiries into her relationship to science...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Gaskell
Early twentieth-century critics represented EG
as a thoroughly domestic and womanly woman—Lord David Cecil
in Early Victorian Novelists described her as the typical Victorian woman: gentle, domestic, tactful, unintellectual, prone to tears, easily...
Reception
Emily Brontë
Muriel Spark
vigorously promoted the work of the Brontës in the mid twentieth century, and Winifred Gérin
was another important early biographer. Later in the century, J. Hillis Miller
provided an influential deconstructive reading of...
Reception
Iris Murdoch
She twice won prizes, in 1937 and 1938, for essays on political themes under League of Nations
auspices. On the second occasion the runner-up was the future critic Raymond Williams
.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Textual Features
Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Barton contains remarkable scenes of domestic life amongst the working classes and harrowing portraits of industrial suffering, particularly the oozing cellar where a friend of the Bartons dies.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton. Editor Foster, Jennifer, Broadview, 2000.
1958: Raymond Williams published his influential...
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1958
Raymond Williams
published his influential work Culture and Society, an analysis of the development of modern social, industrial, and intellectual structures in Britain.
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Texts
Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society. Hogarth Press, 1987.
Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City. Chatto and Windus, 1973.