Subject Guides > Year 12 > Literature (VCE Units 3&4) > North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)

Literary Theory readings

Feminist Criticism

Marxist Criticism

North and South Episodes 1-4:

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Literary Criticism:

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Elliott, D. (1994). The female visitor and the marriage of classes in Gaskell's North and South. Nineteenth-Century Literature,49(1), 21-49. doi:10.2307/2934043

Harman, B. (1988). In Promiscuous Company: Female Public Appearance in Elizabeth Gaskell's "North and South". Victorian Studies, 31(3), 351-374. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.slv.vic.gov.au/stable/3828096

KANWIT, J. (2009). "Mere outward appearances"? Household taste and social perception in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Victorian Review, 35(1), 190-210. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.slv.vic.gov.au/stable/27793711

Linker, L. (2015). Private selves and public conflicts: Mastery and gender identity in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. Gender Forum, (51), 1. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.slv.vic.gov.au/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.slv.vic.gov.au/docview/1642487375?accountid=13905

Melchers, G. (2011). Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South and wives and daughters. A sociolinguistic study with special reference to the representation of nonstandard dialect. Sociolinguistic Studies, 5(1), 59-79. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.slv.vic.gov.au/10.1558/sols.v5i1.59

Steele, K. (2017). 'To Give Way': Women and Grief in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South. The Gaskell Journal, 31, 21-IX.

Yeazell, R. B. (2001). Sexuality, shame, and privacy in the English novel. Social Research, 68(1), 119-144. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.slv.vic.gov.au/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.slv.vic.gov.au/docview/209668197?accountid=13905

Debrabant, M. (2010). Smoke or no smoke? questions of perspective in North and South. Cahiers Victoriens & Édouardiens, (71), 75-87,561-562,12-13. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.slv.vic.gov.au/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.slv.vic.gov.au/docview/817733992?accountid=13905

Hammond, M. (2018). Wayward Orphans and Lonesome Places: The Regional Reception of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton and North and South. Victorian Studies,60(3), 390-411.

Hotz, M. E. (2000). "Taught by death what life should be": Elizabeth Gaskell's representation of death in North and South. Studies in the Novel, 32(2), 165-184. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.slv.vic.gov.au/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.slv.vic.gov.au/docview/212693543?accountid=13905

Reeds, E. (2014). The Ethics of Risk in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South : The Role of Capital in an Industrial Romance. Victorian Review, 40(2), 55-71.

Schaub, M. (2013). The Serial Reader and the Corporate Text: Hard Times and North and South. Victorian Review, 39(1), 182-199.

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