KEY THEME: EMPIRE

Question 1

Suppressed presence of Empire in North and South

Answer 1

1. Edith asleep; modelling wedding presents, clothes and spices ;economic circle; representation of Indian shawls and Indian tea
2. Irish men; S
3. cotland introduced through the Lennox’s; Corfu military garrison that Edith’s husband is part of.
4. India, Ireland corfu Scotland outside of the novel

Question 2

representation of Indian shawls and Indian tea in N&s

Answer 2

: ambiguities that enter the text along with these foreign objects unsettle the status quo established by the novel’s middle-class ideology and propose utopian alternatives to it through a mobile, boundary-crossing female body and a more porous domestic settin

Question 3

materiality of the empire and the Victorian preoccupation with material culture….

Answer 3

constituting an imperial culture based on domestic interiority, visual and tactile pleasure, and political economy.

Question 4

N&S intertwined to empire in what ways

Answer 4

Corfu,India,Scotland,Ireland ; Frederick Hale

Question 5

Placing John Thornton at the Great Exhibition in the film adaptation of North and South was a stroke of genius by BBC screenwriter Sandy Welch:

Answer 5

In this cleverly constructed scene, we see Thornton as not merely as a Milton businessman, but as a master of a global industry—a man of great power in the ever-accelerating world of manufacturing.