Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford

Tracing the publishing history of Elizabeth Gaskell''s Cranford from its initial 1851-53 serialization in Dickens''s Household Words through its numerous editions and adaptations, Thomas Recchio focuses especially on how the text has been deployed to support ideas related to nation and national identity. Recchio maps Cranford''s nineteenth-century reception in Britain and the United States through...