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Mary Barton (Norton Critical Editions) Book

Mary Barton is the pretty daughter of a factory worker who finds herself dreaming of a better life when the mill-owner's charming son, Henry, starts to court her. She rejects her childhood friend Jem's affections in the hope of marrying Henry and escaping from the hard and bitter life that is the fate of the workers, who are resentfully dependent on the callous mill-owners for their livelihoods. But when Henry is shot dead in the street Jem becomes the prime suspect and Mary finds her loyalties tested to the limit.Read More

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  • Foyles

    This Norton Critical Edition of Gaskell’s first novel is based on the 1854 Fifth Edition, the last edition corrected by the author. “Contexts” includes letters related to Mary Barton’s publication as well as Gaskell’s reaction to her harshest critics. Ten contemporary reviews reflect the dual nature of the novel’s critical reception: one group valuing its eye-opening moral energy and concern for the suffering of the working classes and the other group taking Gaskell to task for the deceptive implications of her perceived flawed reasoning. A section featuring fifteen illustrations from the novel offers readers the opportunity to explore narrative emphases.“Criticism” collects seventeen major interpretations of the novel’s central themes. Contributors include Kathleen Tillotson, Richard D. Altick, John Lucas, Catherine Gallagher, Hilary Schor, Deborah Epstein, Susan Zlotnick, Jonathan H. Grossman, and Liam Corley, among others.A Chronology of Gaskell’s life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

  • ASDA

    Based on the 1854 fifth edition this title includes letters as well as Elizabeth Gaskell's reaction to her critics and contemporary reviews that reflect Mary Barton's reception. It contains Gaskell's Libbie Marsh's Three Eras which illustrates the author's perceptive sensitivity and 'Criticism' that collects interpretations of Mary Barton.

  • Blackwell

    About the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully.

  • Pickabook

    E Gaskell, Thomas Recchio (Editor)

  • 0393930637
  • 9780393930634
  • E Gaskell
  • 25 July 2008
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 672
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