Gaskell’s Characters Challenging Gender Norms
This 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...
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| Language: | English |
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2016-12-01
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| Series: | Gender Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/genst-2017-0004 |