North and South

'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.

ISBN 0199537003   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780199537006 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 340 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Series title Oxford World's Classics Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780192831941 Publication date 04 Sep 2008   Height (mm) 196 Writer of introduction Shuttleworth, Sally   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 823.8   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General Pages 496   Alternative ISBN 9789626343494

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