I find it extremely interesting that Northanger Abbey is considered a satire of gothic novels. If no one had told me this, I would have thought it was Gothic Novels: Easy Mode™. It didn’t quite feel like a gothic novel, though I suppose that would make sense considering what it was trying to accomplish. That … Continue reading Northanger Abbey: Satire That Almost Doesn’t Feel Like Satire
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Context, Gothic Novels, and the Tolerance of Ambiguity
(This is So Long, I APOLOGIZE, friends) (but I especially apologize to Kristin). I was fairly entertained by the infographic that Kristin posted about How to Tell You're in a Gothic Novel, mostly because I sometimes feel legitimately confused about what classifies any text into any category, since I so often notice such different features … Continue reading Context, Gothic Novels, and the Tolerance of Ambiguity
Rethinking Modern British Literature 