All posts by Matthew Sussman
Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South – class warfare, ‘shoppy people’ and radical love
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. The industrial revolution was one of the biggest cataclysms in European history. Between 1790 and 1850, the countryside rapidly depopulated. Huge masses of people flooded into cities for factory work, living cheek-by-jowl in unhygienic slums. In Britain, the…