Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exploring the boundaries in Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction / Alan Shelston -- Chains of our own forging : Gaskell and a search for freedom / Ian Campbell -- Tracing the linguistic fingerprints of the unitarian ethos : a corpus-based study of Elizabeth Gskell's short stories / Massimo Verzella -- Elizabeth Gaskell and the crime short story / Mariaconcetta Costantini -- Elizabeth Gaskell's Disappearances : narratives of absence between mystery and empirical detection / Renzo D'Agnillo -- In and out of the Victorian house : the representation of domestic spaces in Gaskell's The grey woman / Anna Enrichetta Soccio -- The cat on her knee : Gaskell's leave-taking / Benedetta Bini -- Interpreting otherness : Elizabeth Gaskell and The crooked branch / Marilena Saracino -- Narrating nineteenth-century dress codes : Elizabeth Gaskell and the desire for a turban / Francesco Marroni -- Illustrating Cranford : George du Maurier and Hugh Thomson / Valentina Polcini -- Filming Gaskell's shorter fiction / Raffaella Antinucci -- Ruth-sick for home : the Keatsian imagination in the novel of Elizabeth Gaskell / Allan C. Christensen -- A quasi-Ruskinian tale : Elizabeth Gaskell's concern for objectivity / Michela Marroni -- Morrisian hauntings in Gaskell's supernatural tales / Eleonora Sasso.

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