Gaskell's Characters Challenging Gender Norms
In: Gender studies, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 45-59
ISSN: 2286-0134
AbstractThis paper evaluates women characters of Elizabeth Gaskell0's social novels set in England's industrial era. While in some ways a traditional woman of her age, Gaskell assumes responsibility and nurture as a duty of men as well as women, and shows her powerful women escaping gender norms, making her worthy of more notice as a social critic than she often gains.