Mary Barton

Mary Barton Criticism

• Principal Works
• Introduction
• Essays
  • The First Novel
  • Mrs. Gaskell's Reading: Some Notes on Echoes and Epigraphs in Mary Barton
  • Mrs. Gaskell and Brotherhood
  • The Social Conscience
  • The Writer as Reader in Mary Barton
  • Mary Barton: The Condition of the Working Class in Manchester
  • Mary Barton: A Revaluation
  • The Early Industrial Novel: Mary Barton and Its Predecessors
  • Spectres and Scorpions: Allusion and Confusion in Mary Barton
  • The Industrial Scene—First Reactions: Mary Barton
  • Mary Barton (1848)
  • Bakhtinian Polyphony in Mary Barton; Class, Gender, and the Textual Voice
  • Texts Which Tell Another Story: Miscommunication in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton
  • Mary Barton and the Community of Suffering
  • A Monstrous Reading of Mary Barton: Fiction as ‘Communitas.’
  • The Deep Romance of Manchester: Gaskell's Mary Barton
  • Mary Barton: Colors of Alienation and Harmony
  • Working Class Masculinities in Mary Barton
  • From Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton to her North and South: Progress or Decline for Women?
• Further Reading