THE QUESTION OF VICTORIANISM AND PROGRESS IN GASKELL’S CRANFORD: A ROMANTICISED OFFER
Öz
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford (1853) can be regarded as a notable work in terms of the
attitude towards the dominant idea of progressivism in the Victorian era. Many
works by Gaskell’s contemporaries tended to deal with social problems of the
period, among which her own industrial novels can be included. However, Cranford has an exceptional stance in
that the novel takes place in English countryside remote from all the turmoil
created by industrialisation. Setting her characters in the middle of an
idyllic landscape where the railways and impact of the capitalist economy are
quite far away from the inhabitants of the little town Cranford, Gaskell
presents a lifestyle associated with the remote past, which is still alive in
the memories of English people. In view of the representation of a small town
in the mid-Victorian period and the praise on a simple lifestyle, Gaskell’s
attitude in Cranford can be defined
as a challenge against progressivism. Hence, this article aims to analyse
Gaskell’s Cranford in the light of
the industrial transformation of the Victorian era and argues that Victorianism
and the philosophy of progressivism were severely challenged longing for
pre-industrial conditions.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ömer Öğünç
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Yayımlanma Tarihi
22 Haziran 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
30 Mart 2017
Kabul Tarihi
22 Mayıs 2017
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Yıl 2017 Sayı: 37