WEEK 1: When did anxieties about media begin? * 18th century * Anxieties about the effect of gothic novels Jane Austen * English novelist * Romantic fiction * Northanger Abbey 19th century * Emergence of mass media and growth in literacy Famous ‘Red Barn Murder’ * Notorious murder committed in England * Maria Marten was shot dead by lover William Corder * Arranged to meet at Red Barn before eloping to Ipswich * Killed there and Corder fled, continuing
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English 12 20 September 2012 Bibliography: Charles Dickens’s Bleak House DATABASE: GaleNet- "Characters in 'Bleak House'." Putnam's Monthly 2.11 (Nov. 1853): 558-562. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Laurie Lanzen Harris. Vol. 8. Detroit: Gale Research, 1985. Literature Resource Center. Web. 17 Sep. 2012. Ebsco Host- Jahn, Karen. "Fit To Survive: Christian Ethics In Bleak House." Studies In The Novel 18.4 (1986): 367. Advanced Placement Source. Web. 17 Sept. 2012.
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The Lizzie Bennet Diaries provides an interesting take on the Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice. In this revision, Lizzie is portrayed as a graduate marketing student. Her thesis is to create a series of vlogs, which is what we see when watching The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. This updated format adds many new layers to the story, but also the changes in the content itself adds to the understanding of the story. This is especially true in the episode introducing Wickham. Changes to the format, as
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In an era plagued with the enchanting mist of romance and art, Elizabeth Browning, like many other poets, impelled her romanticist spirit in many of her poems. She achieves this through many linguistic techniques which further convey her love; this is clearly shown through sonnet 43. “Let me count the ways” In the opening sentence of sonnet 43, Browning subjects the nature of her relationship and her position within this relationship. This is done through her request to her lover to “let” her count
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Introduction Austen (1999-2010), “it is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be sufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others” (Disposition Quotes, para. 4). Jane Austen says is well, people have different dispositions, which can determine the course of a person’s life and how he or she lives. Every person’s disposition forms from both heredity and learnt situations. Huberman
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The Romantic poetry was limited to a few poets, still, those few altered the aspect of literature forevermore. In a group of such prominent poets were George Crabbe and Thomas Moore who gave vivacious renderings of natural scenes with Romantic emotionality. George Crabbe was one of the first poets whose works provided the link between Pre- Romanticism and Romanticism. He was a great bard of nature who portrayed it as strange being and arresting as no other Romantic poet did and therefore was named
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belittled by her class and circumstances. Elizabeth is a rebellious character because she rejects the constrictive societal norms placed upon her and instead she chooses to express herself as an individual deserving of equality and respect. Jane Austen best expresses Elizabeth’s repressive and oppressive societal expectations through her friend, Charlotte Lucas. Her view on marriage is extremely passionless; rather it is a means to comfort defined only by a good home, social connections
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to be very effective as this rhetoric speech can either make you be a happy couple or make your life into a disaster. The statement above is shown throughout literature, but the most famous examples are shown in two books: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, and Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. In Pride and Prejudice, a clergymen by the name of Mr. Collins is proposing to an Elizabeth, and his proposal is said in a way as if it were a business deal. In Our Mutual Friend, a Mr. Headstone, whose
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1. "1984" by George Orwell 2. "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking 3. "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers 4. "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah 5. "A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning: The Short-Lived Edition" by Lemony Snicket 6. "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle 7. "Alice Munro: Selected Stories" by Alice Munro 8. "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll 9. "All the President's Men" by Bob Woodward and
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Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer (1340/1345 – 1400) Geoffrey Chaucer was born between 1340 and 1345 in London and died around 1400. He was known as the ‘Father of English literature’ and established the English writing instead of the French and Latin. He was a page to the Countess of Ulster, Elisabeth, who was the wife of the third son of King Edward III. He met Philippa Roet when both were around 10 years old; they both worked in the palace to take care of the Queen’s daughter Philippa of Eltham
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