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