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Elizabeth Gaskell,Cranford

First published 1851, in Household Words

“Mrs. Gaskell”

A.k.a. “Common sense” The (usually unspoken) conditions of

possibility for speech or action I.e. dominant modes of thinking and

being that are: Recirculated through action, speech, and

text; Enforced & policed; Rarely broken.

Ideology:

Newspapers

Novels

Conversation

Social codes

Lived experience

Circulation of Ideology: A Closed loop?

Cranford’s Network of Women

Miss Deborah Jenkyns Miss Matty (Matilda) Jenkyns Miss Pole Miss Jamieson Mrs. Forrester Betty Barker More? (We, us, they) Mary Smith: Narrator (but we don’t know her

name yet) Insider? Outsider?

Captain Brown Mr. Thomas Holbrook Mr. Jenkyns (father) (Mr.) Peter Jenkyns (son)

Cranford’s Men

What to do? ?

What not to do? ?

Who polices? And how?

Social rules in Cranford