North & South (Norton Critical Edition)

by Gaskell,Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780393979084
• ISBN10: 0393979083
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-11
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This Norton Critical Edition of her best-selling novel is annotated and edited by preeminent Gaskell scholar Alan Shelston. "Contexts" includes contemporary reviews and correspondence related to North and South, along with the full text of Gaskell#xE2;#x80;#x99;s 1850 short story "Lizzie Leigh," which, like North and South, is set in industrial Manchester and deals with strong working women. This topic is further addressed in Bessie Rayner Parkes#xE2;#x80;#x99;s essay on Victorian working women."Criticism" collects eleven assessments of the novel, among them Louis Cazamian#xE2;#x80;#x99;s 1904 study of industrial fiction and Hilary Schor#xE2;#x80;#x99;s recent study of North and South in the context of discourse analysis.A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
The Text of North and South
Volume I	3	(186)
Volume II	189	(208)
Contexts (1850-1900)	397	(100)
LETTERS	399	(18)
Elizabeth Gaskell
From Letters	399	(7)
Charles Dickens
From Letters	406	(7)
Other Contemporary Correspondence	413	(4)
CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS	417	(80)
The Spectator
From New Novels (31 March 1855)	417	(1)
Henry Fothergill Chorley
The Athenaeum (7 April 1855)	418	(2)
Manchester Weekly Advertiser
From Unsigned Review (14 April 1855)	420	(1)
Margaret Oliphant
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (May 1855)	421	(2)
Emile Montegut
Revue des Deux Mondes (1 October 1855)	423	(4)
Graham's Magazine
From Review of New Books (June 1855)	427	(1)
Elizabeth Gaskell
Lizzie Leigh	427	(26)
Friedrich Engels
[Manchester at Mid-Century]	453	(2)
[The Preston Strike]	455	(7)
William Rathbone Greg
The Claims of Labour	462	(7)
W.E. Forster
Strikes and Lock-Outs	469	(12)
Bessie Rayner Parkes
The Condition of Working Women in England and France	481	(9)
Henry Bristow Wilson
[The Clergyman and His Conscience]	490	(7)
Criticism	497	(84)
Louis Cazamian
Mrs Gaskell and Christian
Interventionism: North and South	499	(6)
A.W. Ward
[North and South in Context]	505	(6)
Elizabeth Haldane
[Elizabeth Gaskell and Florence Nightingale]	511	(3)
Raymond Williams
[North and South and the "structure of feeling"]	514	(1)
Aina Rubenius
Factory Work for Women	515
Dorothy W. Collin
The Composition of Mrs. Gaskell's North and South	519	(4)
W.A. Craik
[The Topography of North and South]	523	(8)
Rosemarie Bodenheimer
North and South: A Permanent State of Change	531	(16)
Jo Pryke
The Treatment of Political Economy in North and South	547	(12)
Hilary M. Schor
["The Languages of Industrialization"]	559	(7)
Terence Wright
Women, Death and Integrity: North and South	566	(15)
Elizabeth Gaskell: A Chronology	581	(2)
Selected Bibliography	583