Angels and Doves: a Study of Gaskell's Novels
by Chen Lizhen
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This book takes the novels of the British Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell as the research object, focusing on her three masterpieces "Cranford Town", "North and South" and "Wives and Daughters". Through the perspective of narrative theory and cultural and political criticism, it deeply explores how Gaskell made efforts to construct the status of women in the Victorian period in her works, while at the same time showing a considerable degree of It points out the close connection between the author's life and her fictional works: the uncertainty of Gaskell's gender ideological stance in life makes her works contain conservative qualities of varying degrees that are difficult to get rid of, resulting in the constant emergence of narrative dualities in her works. These dualities also deeply reflect the difficulties faced by the cultural agenda of narrating the status and power of women in the Victorian period.
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