North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

Alan Shelston (Editor)

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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’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’s essay on Victorian working women. "Criticism" collects eleven assessments of the novel, among them Louis Cazamian’s 1904 study of industrial fiction and Hilary Schor’s recent study of North and South in the context of discourse analysis. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
  • ISBN10 0393979083
  • ISBN13 9780393979084
  • Publish Date 1 July 2005 (first published 5 April 1993)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint WW Norton & Co
  • Edition Critical edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 608
  • Language English