ENGL 1005H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: List Of Religious Slurs, Family Saga, Nelly Dean
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Frames can be moved, used in certain times and places. Gothic: supernatural elements and creepy settings, isolated heroes and heroines, set in the more romantic past, unrestrained passions predominate (sensibilities) Comedy of manners: verisimilitude, pairings and marriages of ordinary families, nostalgic not-so-long-ago, unrestrained passions as dangerous to well-regulated emotions (reason and sense) Wuthering heights & the earnshaws vs. thrushcross grange. Tale of two houses: wuthering heights bad . Time contemporaneous with french revolution: ends with beginning of the napoleonic wars, book published in industrial revolution. North and south: lockwood from the south, visiting north, isabella flees to the south, raises linton there. City & country: lockwood from the city, seeking retirement in the country, eearnshaws and lintons. Upper and lower class: nelly dean and lockwood. England and empire: healthcliff a dark skinned gyspy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentlemen . English society: lockwood"s encounter with the complicated relation between the families an exploration of changes in, and predictions.
