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Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford. First published 1851, in Household Words. “Mrs. Gaskell”. A.k.a. “Common sense” The (usually unspoken) conditions of possibility for speech or action I.e. d ominant modes of thinking and being that are: Recirculated through action, speech, and text;

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Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

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  1. Elizabeth Gaskell,Cranford First published 1851, in Household Words

  2. “Mrs. Gaskell”

  3. A.k.a. “Common sense” • The (usually unspoken) conditions of possibility for speech or action • I.e. dominant modes of thinking and being that are: • Recirculated through action, speech, and text; • Enforced & policed; • Rarely broken. Ideology:

  4. Circulation of Ideology: A Closed loop?

  5. Miss Deborah Jenkyns • Miss Matty (Matilda) Jenkyns • Miss Pole • Miss Jamieson • Mrs. Forrester • Betty Barker • More? (We, us, they) • Mary Smith: Narrator (but we don’t know her name yet) • Insider? Outsider? Cranford’s Network of Women

  6. Captain Brown • Mr. Thomas Holbrook • Mr. Jenkyns (father) • (Mr.) Peter Jenkyns (son) Cranford’s Men

  7. What to do? • ? • What not to do? • ? • Who polices? • And how? Social rules in Cranford

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