A Moabite Among the Israelities: Ruth, Religion, and the Victorian Social Novel

When Elizabeth Gaskell’s reputation was revived in the 1980s and 1990s, Ruth was reread along with the factory novels, and uneasily assimilated to the secular socio-economistic, feminist Gaskell that emerged at that time. Ruth’s overt religiosity was necessarily downplayed, however, and it was recon...

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Main Author: Dolin, Tim
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford Journals 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46233