Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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Availability via OpenLibrary.
Taste threads
What this title is working with
- Parallel worlds
- Big ideas
- Rivalry and competition
- Fairy tale
- Rooted in culture
- Period piece
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- Release
- 2004
Synopsis
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its premise is that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Centred on the relationship between these two men, the novel investigates the nature of "Englishness" and the boundaries between reason and unreason, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Dane, and Northern and Southern English cultural tropes/stereotypes. It has been described as a fantasy novel, an alternative history, and a historical novel. It inverts the Industrial Revolution conception of the North-South divide in England: in this book the North is romantic and magical, rather than rational and concrete.
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