How Long to Read The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester

How Long Does it Take to Read The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 38 minutes to read The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester by Felicia Bonaparte

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Despite feminist reassessments to the contrary, the conventional view that Elizabeth Gaskell personified the Victorian feminine ideal is still very much in place today. Challenging that view in an experimental biography, Felicia Bonaparte proposes that there lived in ""Mrs. Gaskell"" another, antithetical self, a daemonic double, that was not an angel in the house but instead a creature born to be a ""gypsy-bachelor."" Bonaparte does not dispute that ""Mrs. Gaskell"" did exist, but she suggests that Gaskell conceived her, as much as any fictional character, out of a desperate need produced by her childhood experience of rejection and abandonment, in order to gain the love of friends and family and the approval of the world. Gaskell herself, Bonaparte argues, told the story of her double in images encoded in her letters, fiction, and life. Using the methods of literary criticism for biographical ends, Bonaparte traces a pattern of these images, showing how a metaphor that may turn up as a figure of speech in one of Gaskell's letters may be embodied in a character in one of her short stories, dramatized in an incident or plot in one of her novels, and even actualized in an action or a relationship in her life. To reach the inner woman, Bonaparte claims, it is necessary to ""read"" Gaskell's letters, fiction, and life as a single poetic text. In addition to presenting a radically different interpretation both of Gaskell and of her literary work, Bonaparte's unique approach opens up interesting possibilities in a number of other areas: in the writing of biography, in the analysis of metaphor in the nineteenth-century novel, in the study of the relationship between literature and life, in the exploration of links between the inner and outer self, and in women's studies generally.

How long is The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester?

The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester by Felicia Bonaparte is 328 pages long, and a total of 84,624 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 42 minutes to read The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester aloud.

What Reading Level is The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester?

The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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