THE NOVELS OF ELIZABETH GASKELL AS AN ETHNOGRAPHIC SOURCE ON MIDDLE CLASS VICTORIAN DOMESTIC ORGANIZATION.

Title: THE NOVELS OF ELIZABETH GASKELL AS AN ETHNOGRAPHIC SOURCE ON MIDDLE CLASS VICTORIAN DOMESTIC ORGANIZATION.
Identifier: AAI8203312
identifier: 8203312
Creator: PALEY, DEBORAH CABOT.
Contributor: Prof. Jane C. Schneider
Date: 1981
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Anthropology, Cultural
Abstract: Comparison of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels to British census sources shows that the "genteel" middle class men and women in a nineteenth century town experienced socio-economic change differently from each other and from the "non-genteel" middle class. A possible explanation for this difference lies in the importance for the "genteel" middle class of the cultural rule of hypergamy. While the articulation of family and class is concealed in the census, the novels are shown to be a useful tool for wider interpretation, as well as a repository of reliable data. Thus an emphasis on cultural rules and categories, lacking in many family histories, is used to add depth of analysis.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Anthropology

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