MANCHESTER IN J. WINTERSON AND A. TOCQUEVILLE

In the second chapter of the  jeanette Winterson's book, she describes how
was  Manchester in 1959 ( the city where
she was born ) from different point of view. 
She shows Manchester as the first important industrial city of the world
regarding to the textile sector. It was "all mix": it was radical
because Marx and Engels were there, but in the same time it was repressive
because of the Peterloo Massacres and the Corn Laws. In the following passages
of the chapter, The writer  give some
informations about Manchester's geographic position and its natural elements of
the place. Moreover, Jeanette Winterson quotes the book "Hard Times"
written by Charles Dickens and the extract of Engels' work ( The condition of
the English working class in England, 1844 ) to deals with the situation of
people during the Industrial Revolution.

Therefore, there is an other description regarding to
Manchester: "Manchester", 1835,  written by Alexis de Tocqueville. In the text,
firstly he shows Manchester trought its natural and artificial features. Then,
A. Tocqueville detains his attention on the social and political effects that the
Industrial revolution brought, as the poverty of the population.

As well as Jeanette Winterson, the writer adresses
directly to the readers in first person narrator ( "You will never hear
the clatter..."). So in this way he is able to make into them in order to
rouse more real and concrete feelings about the same context: the conditions in
which workers and all people were forced to live . In conclusion both jeanette
and Alexis Tocqueville utilize some phrases which are able to make the description almost
real, notwithstanding Winterson's description was published many years later
the releasing of A. Tocqueville.