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 »
Mirrors mirroring mirrors
Posted in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had an earlier bog about mirror’s within a Sicilian Romance, particularly how the characters mirrored each other and how that wove everything together. I am now going to try to connect the mirrors of a Sicilian romance to the mirrors that Catherine chooses to look through to see the world, i know it’s a [...]
Bath
Posted in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bath always seems to be a popular place for the rich and well off. We have already saw The Wife of Bath in the Canterbury Tales, a women of high status within herself and weath.We come again to see Bath with Catherine in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. Seen above is the Bath Abbey standing tall. [...]
