North and South (Norton Critical Editions)
by Elizabeth Gaskell
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Author: Elizabeth GaskellEditor: Alan Shelston
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-11-11
ISBN: 0393979083
Number of pages: 608
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Book Review: This is the edition to buy!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'll leave reviewing the wonderful book to others (but it gets five stars as well!) and I'll just focus on this edition.
It has footnotes that cover slang terms, and bits of historical information that pertain to the story. I found them extremely helpful and interesting.
There are also critical essays in the back, which I have not read.
Also included are letters to and from Elizabeth Gaskell, to and from several other people, including Charles Dickens (who worked for the magazine that was publishing her story serially), other people with whom she discussed ideas for the book as she was writing, and other authors of the day (Charlotte Bronte, Harriot Beecher Stowe) writing to congratulate her and tell her how much they enjoyed her book. I found the letters very interesting and full of personality.
Enjoy reading this wonderful book! I will definitely be looking for more of Norton's critical editions!
Summary of North and South (Norton Critical Editions)
A revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskell?s place in the company of Victorian England?s finest novelists.
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.Family Saga Books
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