North and South
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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North and South tells the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner newly settled in the northern industrial town of Milton, whose ready sympathy with the discontented millworkers sits uneasily with her growing attraction to the charismatic mill owner, John Thornton. The novel poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience, ranging from religious crises of conscience to the ethics of naval mutiny and industrial action.
Margaret's internal conflicts mirror the turbulence that she sees all around her. This revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate and explores Gaskell's subtle representations of sexual passion and communal strife.
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Classic Literature, Social classes, Children of clergy, open_syllabus_project, Mothers and daughters, Young women, Fiction, Women, English literature, Gaskell, elizabeth cleghorn, 1810-1865, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Young women, fiction, England, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Social conditions, English fiction, Gaskell, elizabeth cleghorn , 1810-1865, Criticism and interpretationgaskell, elizabeth cleghorn , 1810-1865, Young women--fiction, Mothers and daughters--fiction, Children of clergy--fiction, Social classes--fiction, Pr4710 .n6 2005, 823/.8, Social life and customsPlaces
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North and South: an authoritative text, contexts, criticism
2005, W.W. Norton
in English
- 1st ed.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvi]-xxxviii).
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When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. 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.
In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell skillfully fuses individual feeling with social concern, and in Margaret Hale creates one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.
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