North and South

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ID23256363
AuthorsElizabeth Gaskell (0000-0001-6497-6211), Sally Shuttleworth (0000-0002-1261-7433)
EditorsANGUS EASSON
Year2008
Pages452
Publication date2008-09-04
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNorth And South (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/owc/9780199537006.001.0001
OpenAlexW4241120526
Open LibraryOL25969301M
ISBN9780199537006
LanguageEN
Citations received10

`She tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.’ North and South is a novel about rebellion. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman, and from religious crises of conscience to the ethics of naval mutiny, it poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret’s ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill ownder, John Thornton. This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate.

Charisma · Conscience · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Middle class · Mutiny · Obedience · Passions · Political science · Sociology · Sympathy · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology · Social Psychology · British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) · Coming of age · England · Fiction · Fiction, coming of age · Long Now Manual for Civilization · Mills and mill-work · Mothers and daughters · Mothers and daughters, fiction · Social conditions · Young women · Young women, fiction

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