Hey! 
I'm wondering if I can use North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell (either the novel or the 2004 TV miniseries, just so that all my texts aren't novels) as a related text for Romanticism. I really love it and want to use it, and one English teacher at my school has said I can, but another has said I shouldn't. What do you lot think?
It does, in my mind, have a lot of relevance to Romanticism because it deals with overcoming society's expectations, the contrast between nature and industry, and largely criticises the Industrial Revolution. Oh yeah, and we have a strong, independent female protagonist, as well as a nice little love story with a man who's almost a Byronic hero.
But Elizabeth Gaskell isn't *quite* in the time period my teacher says encompasses our Romanticism course... she's five years out.
Help?
I'm wondering if I can use North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell (either the novel or the 2004 TV miniseries, just so that all my texts aren't novels) as a related text for Romanticism. I really love it and want to use it, and one English teacher at my school has said I can, but another has said I shouldn't. What do you lot think?
It does, in my mind, have a lot of relevance to Romanticism because it deals with overcoming society's expectations, the contrast between nature and industry, and largely criticises the Industrial Revolution. Oh yeah, and we have a strong, independent female protagonist, as well as a nice little love story with a man who's almost a Byronic hero.
But Elizabeth Gaskell isn't *quite* in the time period my teacher says encompasses our Romanticism course... she's five years out.
Help?