"A silent partner long enough": Phelps rewrites Gaskell's North and South.(Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Gaskell)(Critical Essay)

From: Studies in American Fiction | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1871 labor novel, The Silent Partner, met with mixed reviews from the beginning. A review in Literary World praised the novel in its day for its "superior realism," but the New York Times criticized it for its "slight story" and its "extremely unsatisfactory and discouraging conclusion." (1) The mixed reviews have continued as modern scholars seek to assess literary works on ideological as well as aesthetic grounds. Specifically, recent reception of The Silent Partner has found it difficult to reconcile the novel's pro-labor, anti-capitalist rhetoric ...

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