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    British Women Writers during the Romantic period “Like the minority writer, the female writer exists within an inescapable condition of identity which distances her from the mainstream of the culture and forces her either to stress her separation from the masculine literary tradition or to pursue her resemblance to it.” (Lynn Sukenick, Miller: 1985, 356.) Women’s roles in society today has changed radically since the Romantic period. Women during the Romantic Period were looked down upon economically

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    Upon the very first reading of William Wordsworth’s ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting The Banks of The Wye During a Tour, 13th July 1798’, one comes across the theme of memory and Wordsworth’s love for nature ( themes frequently explored by Wordsworth in several of his poems). However, both these themes work in an inter-connected and intertwined manner in the said poem. The very first line itself sets a nostalgic mood to the poem. It depicts Wordsworth’s contemplation

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    Gothic Elements in Northanger “Horrid” Novels The scope of this chapter is to introduce selected Gothic novels in order to analyse Gothic elements. The Mysteries of Udolpho is presented first, since it is an exemplary novel regarded as a model of Female Gothic literature. Furthermore, four Northanger novels are compared to this model analysis to show whether it is possible to label them as copies of Radcliffe. The analysis focuses on several elements: setting, nature, supernatural, suspense and

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    the young lady marginally influenced with sentimental ideas. Gothic books and their traditions happen all through the novel, particularly in its second part. In transit from Bath to Northanger Abbey, the Tilney family situate, Henry recounts a comical speculative tale about Catherine's first night in the Abbey, including common highlights of gothic novel. He teasingly gives a portrayal that is a composite of points of interest from Radcliffe's books. As the creator expected to disparage the Gothic

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    Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is a bildungsroman, a coming of age story that focuses on the psychological development, and maturity of the protagonist Catherine Morland. This essay will analyse the language, and narrative techniques of the set extract, and discuss how this excerpt suggests vicissitude in Catherine’s priorities, within her role as Austen’s female bildungsroman. In addition, it will discuss the ‘domestic gothic’ and real life abuse that prevails in ordinary situations. Furthermore

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    Metafiction Northanger Abbey is a perfect example of the clever use of metafiction to get across the point that regular life doesn’t need to be all that exciting to be enjoyable. Jane Austen wrote the novel as a parody of the gothic genre by using the structure of the genre and being satirical with it and the importance of this I think is to convey while books are fascinating they are not real life. Austen had written other more serious gothic works but this one specifically wasn’t made to

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    engraving with tone. ( pg 269) Dynamics-loud or low music. Concepts Main Concept 1: Interior of Tintern Abbey- J.M.W. Turner Page 214 .Student Outcome 1. Think analytically and critically about individual works of art. A. The basic elements of the piece interior of Tintern Abbey by J.M.W. Turner is watercolor. When Turner was nineteen he looked around the Wye

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    Representations of Time: Wordsworth and Constable I do not know how without being culpably particular I can give my Reader a more exact notion of the style in which I wished these poems to be written, than by informing him that I have at all times endeavored to look steadily at my subject; consequently, I hope that there is in these Poems little falsehood of description, and my ideas are expressed in language fitted to their respective importance. Something I must have gained by this practice

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    If you're a Beatles fan, no doubt one place you'll definitely want to visit is Abbey Road Crossing. Abbey Road is iconic for fans, but for everybody living and working in the area, the crossing is either just your average intersection OR a giant pain in the ass. Abbey Road Crossing is on quite a busy section of road and needless to say, the cars do not like having to constantly stop for the fans. The day we went was rather busy and quite hard to get a moment alone on the crossing for a photo, however

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    Jane Austen opens his novel Northanger Abbey (1818) by describing the character of Catherine Morland. Austen takes use in literary devices such as descriptive and honest word choice, also the use of a calming tone when expressing the traits of Catherine Morland, how she is in fact a free spirited girl, lives a simple life, yet empowers to shine as a heroine. Jane Austen begins his passage to his novel by creating an honest and nonjudgemental tone when explaining the reality of Catherine Morland's

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