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North and South

Autor Elizabeth Gaskell Editat de Alan Shelston
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 noi 2004

Observăm încă din primele pagini contrastul vizual puternic între idilicul Hampshire, cu grădinile sale înflorite, și atmosfera densă, încărcată de fumul furnalelor din Milton. North and South nu este doar o poveste de dragoste, ci o cronică a unei lumi în plină transformare, unde liniștea aristocrației sudice se lovește frontal de zgomotul asurzitor al revoluției industriale. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Elizabeth Gaskell reușește să dea viață acestui conflict prin întâlnirea dintre Margaret Hale, fiica unui paroh cu principii morale rigide, și John Thornton, proprietarul de fabrică ce crede în eficiență mai presus de orice. Suntem de părere că forța narativă a cărții rezidă în onestitatea cu care autoarea tratează ambele tabere. Cititorul care a apreciat explorarea dură a condițiilor muncitorești din Mary Barton va găsi aici o tematică similară, dar într-un context diferit: perspectiva este acum una de mediere, oferind o înțelegere mai nuanțată a relațiilor dintre capital și forța de muncă. Dacă în Cranford sau Wives and Daughters Gaskell se concentra pe microcosmosul vieții de provincie și pe subtilitățile sociale, în North and South ea extinde cadrul, incluzând tensiunea grevelor și schimbările ireversibile de clasă. Stilul este unul contemplativ, dar marcat de o precizie sociologică rară. Evoluția protagoniștilor nu este una facilă; prejudecățile lor se topesc lent, sub presiunea tragediilor personale și a necesității de a găsi un punct de echilibru într-o Anglie fracturată. Este un roman despre mândrie și vulnerabilitate, unde dialogul devine singura punte peste prăpastia dintre tradiție și progres.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780393979084
ISBN-10: 0393979083
Pagini: 608
Dimensiuni: 131 x 214 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:Adnotată
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută un roman clasic de o profunzime socială remarcabilă. North and South oferă mai mult decât o intrigă romantică; este o lecție de empatie și o analiză a modului în care înțelegerea reciprocă poate depăși barierele de clasă. Veți câștiga o perspectivă autentică asupra epocii victoriene, scrisă de o autoare care a trăit ea însăși în inima industrială a Angliei.


Despre autor

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865), cunoscută adesea ca Mrs. Gaskell, a fost o figură centrală a literaturii victoriene, renumită pentru capacitatea de a portretiza diversele straturi ale societății britanice. Soție a unui ministru unitarian din Manchester, ea a avut acces direct la realitățile dure ale vieții urbane, experiență care i-a alimentat romanele sociale precum Mary Barton și North and South. Pe lângă beletristică, Gaskell a scris prima biografie a bunei sale prietene, Charlotte Brontë, și a fost apreciată de contemporani, inclusiv de Charles Dickens, pentru onestitatea și rigoarea observațiilor sale asupra vieții obișnuite.


Descriere scurtă

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.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

From her home ground, her father's comfortably middle-class living in Hampshire and her aunt's establishment in Harley Street, Margaret is exiled to the ugly northern industrial town of Milton. Surprisingly, her social consciousness awakens. It is intensified by a relationship with the local mill-owner, Thornton, that combines passionate attraction with fierce opposition. The novel explores the exploitation of the working class, linking the plight of workers with that of women and probing the myth and reality of the 'north-south divide'.

Notă biografică

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (née Stevenson) was born on 29 September 1810 in Chelsea, London. Her father William, was a civil servant. Her mother, Eliza, died on 29 October 1811 and she was brought up by Hannah Lumb, her aunt, in Knutsford, Cheshire, a small town near Manchester which later became the basis for Cranford.

In 1832 she married William Gaskell, who was a Unitarian minister and they settled in the industrial city of Manchester. They had several children: a stillborn daughter in 1833, followed by Marianne (1834), Margaret Emily (1837), known as Meta, Florence Elizabeth (1842), William (1844-1845) and Julia Bradford (1846).

After her only son, William, died of scarlet fever she began to write. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published anonymously in 1848. It was an immediate success, winning the praise of Charles Dickens and Thomas Carlyle.

Dickens invited her to contribute to his magazine, 'Household Words', where her next major work, Cranford, appeared in 1853. North and South was published the following year. Gaskell’s work brought her many friends, including the novelist Charlotte Brontë. When Charlotte died in 1855, her father, Patrick Brontë, asked Gaskell to write her biography, The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857).

Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth’s final novel, was left unfinished when she died suddenly of heart failure on 12 November 1865 in Holybourne, Hampshire, aged 55.

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`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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Recenzii

"Gaskell saw the emotional and economic realities of ordinary life with a steely honesty" The Times "Ruth, North and South and Mary Barton are at least as good as any of Dickens's novels" -- Sara Paretsky "Pah! to Dickens. Eat your heart out, Little Nell. That Elizabeth Gaskell could write a death scene to make your socks melt" Scotsman "One of the most perceptive novels of the mid-Victorian era" Glasgow Herald "North And South explores themes that still seem strikingly modern. One hundred and fifty years after it appeared, the North-South divide - and the social and economic gulf it implies - remains intact" Daily Mail