Description:
Unlike other editions, this edition of Cranford includes historical materials on class, etiquette, industrialization, empire, and other themes relevant to the novel.
Review Quotes:
"Elizabeth Langland's edition of Cranford is likely to introduce a new generation of readers to the pleasures of Gaskell's most delightful but least immediately appreciated novel. By including in her appendices of historical materials choice selections from conduct books and writings on political and domestic economy, as well as in her informed, accessible introduction, Langland demonstrates that, appearances aside, the world of Cranford is firmly located in its Victorian context and addresses, however obliquely, some of the most intractable problems of its age--and of ours." -- Eileen Gillooly, Columbia University