A small subset of the following articles will be available in the course Bblearn site/folder, and see required reading under the course syllabus (ignore obvious capitalization formatting below).
Colby, Robin B. "Some Appointed Work To Do": Women and Vocation in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood P, 1995. see ch. 4 (47-64)
Elliott, Dorice Williams. “The female visitor and the marriage of classes in Gaskell's North and South” Nineteenth-Century Literature 49.1 (1994): p21, 29p
Harman, Barbara Leah. “IN PROMISCUOUS COMPANY: FEMALE PUBLIC APPEARANCE IN ELIZABETH GASKELL'S NORTH AND SOUTH.” Victorian Studies 31.3 (1988): p351, 24p
Harrison, Mary-Catherine. "How Narrative Relationships Overcome Empathic Bias: Elizabeth Gaskell's Empathy across Social Difference." Poetics Today 32.2 (2011): 255-288.
HOTZ, MARY ELIZABETH. “'TAUGHT BY DEATH WHAT LIFE SHOULD BE': ELIZABETH GASKELL'S REPRESENTATION OF DEATH IN NORTH AND SOUTH.” Studies in the Novel, 32.2 (2000): 165, 20p
Ingham, Patricia. The Language of Gender and Class: Transformation in the Victorian Novel. London: Routledge, 1996. See ch. 4 on North and South (55-77)
Lee, Julia Sun-Joo. “The Return of the ‘Unnative’: The Transnational Politics of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Nineteenth-Century Literature 61.4 (2007): 449-478.
Longmuir, Anne. “Consuming Subjects: Women and the Market in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South." Nineteenth-Century Contexts 34.3 (2012): 237-252.
Markovits, Stefanie. “North and South, East and West: Elizabeth Gaskell, the Crimean War, and the Condition of England.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 59.4 (2005): 463-493.
Matus, Jill. L. "Mary Barton and North and South." The Cambridge companion to Elizabeth Gaskell, ed. Jill L. Matus. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. 27-45.
Nelson, James. G. “The Victorian Social Problem Novel.” A Companion to the Victorian Novel. Eds. Willliam Baker and Kenneth Womack. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood P, 2002. 189-207.
Parkins, Wendy. “Women, mobility and modernity in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Women's Studies International Forum Vol. 27 Issue 5/6 (2004): 507-519.
Simmons, James Richard Jr. “’Condition of England’ Novels.” A Companion to the Victorian Novel. Eds. Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2002. 336-52.
Spencer, Jane. Elizabeth Gaskell. New York: St. Martin’s P, 1993. Ch. 4 includes discussion of North and South (87-95)
Starr, Elizabeth. "'A GREAT ENGINE FOR GOOD': THE INDUSTRY OF FICTION IN ELIZABETH GASKELL'S MARY BARTON AND NORTH AND SOUTH." Studies in the Novel 34.4 (2002): 386. 18p.
Uglow, Jenny. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1993. see ch. 18 (366-86)
Wainwright, Valerie. “Discovering autonomy and authenticity in North and South: Elizabeth Gaskell, John Stuart Mill.” Clio 23.2 (1994): p149, 17pp