A life 'so very different to what I expected': Miss Matty's Private Counternarratives in Cranford
(2024)
Journal Article
Leblanc, S.-E. (2024). A life 'so very different to what I expected': Miss Matty's Private Counternarratives in Cranford. The Gaskell Journal, 38, 44-66
This article re-examines the inner life of Miss Matty in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford (1853).
It posits that, throughout the novel, Miss Matty constructs fictional counternarratives to her own real life, which act as protective fictions allowing her...
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