This Norton Critical Edition is annotated and edited by the preeminent Gaskell scholar, Alan Shelston.
NORTH AND SOUTH (1854) by Elizabeth Gaskell is both a social commentary and the romantic story of a young lady, Margaret Hale, who is relocated with her family from the affluent South of England to the industrial North.
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First serialized in Dickens's magazine Household Words in the same period as Hard Times, North and South shares its famous counterpart's concern with the inequality and hardship generated by the Industrial Revolution in northern England, ...
The later version renewed interest in the novel and attracted a wider readership.Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton (1848), focused on relations between employers and workers in Manchester from the perspective of the working poor; North and ...
The novel traces both her growing understanding of the complexity of labor relations and her impact on well-meaning mill owners, and her conflicted relationship with John Thornton.Gaskell based her depiction of Milton on Manchester, where ...
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The novel traces both her growing understanding of the complexity of labor relations and her impact on well-meaning mill owners, and her conflicted relationship with John Thornton.
Acclaimed as one of the most important novels of the Victorian era, North and South follows the idealistic young Margaret Hale as she confronts the harsh realities of the Industrial Revolution.
In her introduction Patricia Ingham examines geographical, economic and class differences, and male and female roles in North and South. This edition also includes a list for further reading, notes and a glossary.
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The later version renewed interest in the novel and attracted a wider readership.Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton (1848), focused on relations between employers and workers in Manchester from the perspective of the working poor; North and ...
This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction.
Margaret Hale's experience as she moves from comforts of living in a small, but wealthy southern parish to a northern, working class industrial town.
The laborer Nicholas Higgins organizes workers' strikes and insists on the rights of workingmen. Anywhere you look in this book, you'll find someone fighting the power. And that was something that the stuffy Victorians were really not into.
This is one of the earliest novels of industrial alienation, tellingly linked to the plight of 19th-century women.
Perhaps you read North and South in school as a youth or maybe this is your first time reading Elizabeth Gaskell's masterpiece or maybe you're a teacher buying the book for your children's literature class.
This richly textured novel of romance and class conflict explores the dichotomies between the pastoral South and industrial North during England's mid-Victorian era.