Cranford - Suivi de Ma cousine Phillis

by Elizabeth Gaskell

Overview

Traduit et préfacé par Domnique Jean
Soudées par une profonde amitié, les humbles dames de la petite communauté agricole de Cranford se contentent d'un mode de vie simple et hors du temps. Mais l'urbanisation qui gagne du terrain et la construction d'une voie de chemin de fer, ainsi que l'ordre masculin et les conventions sociales, menacent leur fragile microcosme...

Les craquements du vieux monde se font aussi entendre à la ferme de l'Espérance où le jeune Paul Manning, revenu de la ville, emménage chez son oncle, le pasteur Holman. Là, il se lie d'affection avec sa cousine Phillis. Quand celle-ci tombe sous le charme d'un bel ingénieur, porteur de valeurs modernes, la nouvelle harmonie familiale menace de s'effondrer...

Les héroïnes d'Elizabeth Gaskell, face à la férocité du monde, s'inscrivent dans la métamorphose de l'Angleterre victo- rienne, où la désuétude des anciens codes laisse place à la solitude des êtres – et à l'espoir de temps meilleurs. La ro- mancière les observe avec ce mélange de tendresse et d'iro- nie qui sont sa marque.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782377359783
Publisher:	L'Archipel
Publication date:	04/01/2021
Sold by:	EDITIS - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	334
File size:	2 MB
Language:	French

About the Author

Elizabeth Porges Watson is Lecturer in English at the University of Nottingham. Dinah Birch is Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool.

Table of Contents

I	Our Society	1
II	The Captain	9
III	A Love Affair of Long Ago	20
IV	A Visit to an Old Bachelor	26
V	Old Letters	35
VI	Poor Peter	43
VII	Visiting	52
VIII	"Your Ladyship"	59
IX	Signor Brunoni	69
X	The Panic	76
XI	Samuel Brown	87
XII	Engaged to Be Married	95
XIII	Stopped Payment	101
XIV	Friends in Need	110
XV	A Happy Return	123
XVI	Peace to Cranford	132

Editorial Reviews

"Elizabeth Langland's edition of Cranford is likely to introduce a new generation of readers to the pleasures of Gaskell's most delightful but least immediately appreciated novel. By including in her appendices of historical materials choice selections from conduct books and writings on political and domestic economy, as well as in her informed, accessible introduction, Langland demonstrates that, appearances aside, the world of Cranford is firmly located in its Victorian context and addresses, however obliquely, some of the most intractable problems of its age—and of ours."

Eileen Gillooly Columbia University

Elizabeth Langland’s edition of Cranford is likely to introduce a new generation of readers to the pleasures of Gaskell’s most delightful but least immediately appreciated novel. By including in her appendices of historical materials choice selections from conduct books and writings on political and domestic economy, as well as in her informed, accessible introduction, Langland demonstrates that, appearances aside, the world of Cranford is firmly located in its Victorian context and addresses, however obliquely, some of the most intractable problems of its age—and of ours.” — Eileen Gillooly, Columbia University

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