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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
2003
Citation
Journal of Narrative Theory (Summer 2003) 33(2): 163–183
Abstract
Analyzes the successive critiques of Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life by Elizabeth Gaskell, first 1848. Uses the concept of the "dissembled dialogue" to account for both the poetics and the politics of the text. Borrows the concept of dissembling as a critical tool for a reading of Gaskell's text from Deirdre d'Albertis, who argues that Gaskell's "dissembling fictions" use several strategies to create a "poetics of narrative dissimulation."
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