The Gothic brings to mind a world of grandeur and dark places, of hidden rooms and mystery as well as ruins covered in cobwebs. As Halloween approaches Gothic ruins covered in cobweb seem to play a vast role, what a place to have a haunted house! anyways I thought it would be interested to see [...]
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Halloween in the Gothic
Posted in A Sicilian Romance, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey on October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Paper
Posted in A Sicilian Romance on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote my paper on a Sicilian Romance, focusing on a particular scene in which family information is reveled. I found the drafting to be helpful as well as the peer reviews during class. I felt that the paper writing went well over all, certainly better than i had thought. Paper on Ann Radcliffe’s novel [...]
Religious plug in
Posted in A Sicilian Romance on October 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Sicilian Roman is a fun novel full of just about everything that makes a fun novel excluding aliens. I am writing my midterm essay on this particular text focusing in on a particular scene when Mazzini family history is reveled in connection to the castle and then expanding it to show that much of [...]
layers of mirrors
Posted in A Sicilian Romance on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
the use of mirrors in A Sicilian Romance is a big part of the character development as well as adding to the layers of intrigue. We see multiple people trying to escape only to be caught by a party searching for the other escaping people. this leads to many mirrors showing where the characters could [...]
Complications
Posted in A Sicilian Romance on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Complicated, interwoven connections are a main defining feature of the Gothic Novel and A Sicilian Romance doesnt disappoint. With a century of family history some revealed some kept secrete, a zillion characters all family by blood or marriage or deep friendships, on top of the castle’s history and all the Italian names that seem exactly [...]
Sublimity and Grandeur of ruins
Posted in A Sicilian Romance on September 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love Gothic novels, particularly everything that makes them “scary” the large, looming architecture for one I am in love with + the mysteries of history, crime solving Nancy Drew for the 16th century.I love going to ruins, exploring through history not with books but with places.to hear the history behind what you see, to [...]
