LIT 4047 Victorian Literature (PLNU) ~ Novels of Class, Gender, and Race Dashboard
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This group is the COVE Editions place for our LIT 4047 Victorian Literature course. Here in COVE Editions is where we will collaboratively and individually build our timeline, map, and possibly gallery assignments. We will work to get a stronger sense of the Victorian Period--its literature, culture, and history--by our work on these digital documents.
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Liverpool was an important part of the book. It was where Will was located, who was of course important for Jem's trial as he could advocate for him. Mary Barton would of course travel to this land and would first think that she missed Will but in the end, she ended up finding him and he would go to the Trial and clear the name of Jem. "The early trains for Liverpool, on Monday morning, were crowded by attorneys, attorneys' clerks, plaintiffs, defendants, and witnesses, all going to the Assizes" (pg. 355).
Gaskell, Elizabeth Mary Barton edited Jennifer Foster. 1848, Broadview Literary Texts. (Pg. 355).
After everything is said and done, Jem and Mary marry and move to Toronto so he can get a new job free of the taint of murder charges. Their family is happy in Toronto; they have a son named Jonnie and the household is harmonious (482). Toronto was a couple years behind Britain's industrial revolution, so it would make sense for there to be less class conflict than Manchester (https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/history-art-culture/museums/virtual...). The change is setting from one country to another signals a resolution of conflict by leaving the system.
Gaskell, Elizabeth Mary Barton edited Jennifer Foster, Broadview Literary Editions 1848
Manchester is the location in which the story of Mary Barton. takes place. It takes place in the years 1839-1842. During this period, the middle class stuggled while the working class thrived. Things of course went sour when the middle class decided to form their union to combat the factory owners until they get what they want. It was indeed something epic. It was around this time that that the factory owners reduce the wages of the employees, thus leading to them to revolting against them for what they did.
Gaskell, Elizabeth Mary Barton edited Jennifer Foster. 1848, Broadview Literary Texts.
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moreJohn Barton goes to Parliament on behalf of the Chartists to present their grievances to the governement. He is representing the people of Manchester and they tell him all they want to say (131). On the way to Parliament, he and the other delagetes get yelled at by a policeman and they're dismissed out of hand. Barton becomes angry and he "seldom spoke, less than ever; and often when he did speak, they were sharp angry words" (164). Parliament, as a location, represents a rejection of the working class and the arrogance of the upper class. Although the main conflict of Mary Barton involves the working class and the middle class, this location invokes the small appearance of the landowners.
Gaskell, Elizabeth Mary Barton edited Jennifer Foster, Broadview Literary Editions 1848