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Mary Barton. Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life è stato il primo romanzo dell’autrice inglese Elizabeth Gaskell, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1848. La storia è ambientata nella città inglese di Manchester tra il 1839 e il 1842 e tratta delle difficoltà affrontate dalla classe operaia vittoriana.
If we read Mary Barton as a novel about fatherhood – a relationship rather than a person – we can to some extent escape the debate about who is the central character. We should also be able to see, however, why Elizabeth Gaskell conceived John Barton as her ‘tragic… “hero”’(L 39).
Mary Barton. Capa comum – 13 novembro 2017. Clássico impactante e à frente de seu tempo, de uma das grandes escritoras inglesas do século XIX, Elizabeth Gaskell. Elizabeth Gaskell escreveu este romance em meio à crescente Revolução Industrial, ocorrida no século XIX, e às lutas trabalhistas por mais direitos.
Páginas: 480. ISBN: 978-84-8428-716-2 Categoría: Alba Clásica Maior. 30,00 €. Añadir al carrito. eBook disponible en: Por sus obligaciones como mujer de un pastor unitario, Elizabeth Gaskell hubo de conocer de primera mano las condiciones de vida de los obreros de Manchester y las consecuencias de la Revolución Industrial. «Dar voz al ...
11 de dez. de 2008 · Mary Barton was praised by contemporary critics for its vivid realism, its convincing characters and its deep sympathy with the poor, and it still has the power to engage and move readers today. This edition reproduces the last edition of the novel supervised by Elizabeth Gaskell and includes her husband's two lectures on the Lancashire dialect.
Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner’s son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds herself painfully torn between the two men.
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 1831, of a progressive mill owner. It follows Mary Barton, daughter of a man implicated in the murder, through her adolescence, when she suffers the advances of the mill owner, and later through love and marriage. Set in Manchester, between 1837-42 ...
