The Emotional Structure and Community Construction in Cranford
Cranford is Mrs.Gaskell's most representative rural novel,embodying the anxiety of social transformation in the Vic-torian period.Cranford constructs the fixed space of villages and towns,which is connected with traditional culture and emotion to form a stable human group.The families and villagers living in this fixed space form a small-scale"community",where their common be-havior and values promote collective emotional identity and security.In Cranford,Mrs.Gaskell infiltrates the emotion of building the spiritual bond of the community into all activities,pays attention to the relationship between individuals and the community,perceives the emotional system of the community,and paints the scene of real life in both virtual and real places.
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