ENG323H1 Lecture Notes - Circulating Library, Charlotte Lennox
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Satirist of sentimentality = austen (not tremendously and solely a. She works like a literary sniper like our culture, gets very pious about romanticist) family culture: northanger abbey fine family of 10 quote. She"s a very wild writer not prim and proper. Her novels are very precisely the differences among them . Novel-lovers and novel-haters at the end of the 18th century reinventing her narrative, her hero, her heroine, etc. Literary critics/reviewers put down gothic and sentimental novels at the end of the 18th century. Novel is seen as popular yet threatened (sagging rather than rising) at the end of the 18th century. She unconsciously wrote to improve the novel as a genre. Fiction is concentrating now in everyday life (more probable than improbable now) : care should be taken that best examples should be exhibited; if you"re identifying with the novel and imitating it, best examples of conduct should be exhibited.
