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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; - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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. dominant modes of thinking and
being that are: Recirculated through action, speech, and
text; Enforced & policed; Rarely broken.
Ideology:
Newspapers
Novels
Conversation
Social codes
Lived experience
Circulation of Ideology: A Closed loop?
Cranford’s Network of Women
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?
Captain Brown Mr. Thomas Holbrook Mr. Jenkyns (father) (Mr.) Peter Jenkyns (son)
Cranford’s Men
What to do? ?
What not to do? ?
Who polices? And how?
Social rules in Cranford
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