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- 1what are the further developments?a.the formation of circulating libraries.
b. The emergence of high quality women writers. - 2Where were the first libraries?in hat shops
- 3Which were some the high quality women writers?-Fanny burney
-Maria Edgeworth - 4What did Fanny have a good eye and ear for?-Good eye for detail
-good ear the vulgar phrase - 5What did maria edgeworth create?the regional novel
- 6(Edgeworth) what was her setting?Ireland
- 7Who did she have a great influence on?scott when he wrote about scotland
- 8When did gothic novels became popular?the end of the 18th century
- 9Why were they called gothic novels?Because they imitated medieval romances
- 10Where were they usually set (gothic novels) and what did they have?- set in medieval castles
-they had haunted landscapes, frightening ruins and the supernatural. - 11which was the first gothic novel and whom was it written by?-the castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
- Mysteries of Udolpho by Anne Radcliffe - 12What was a very popular gothic novel in the 19th century?Frankenstein( or the modern prometheus) by Mary Shelley
- 13What is the resemblance between frankenstein and prometheus?because both did what only god can do,
both were punished - 14What were frankenstein's and prometheus' punishments ?frankenstein: friends died
prometheus: he was chained to an eagle with his liver being forever eaten by it. - 15who has Jane Austen been compared to?A miniature portrait painter
- 16which historical events did her books make no reference to?the american revolution, the industrial revolution, the french revolution, napoleon, nobleman going to England from France.
- 17what was the military seen as in Austen's books?suitors
- 18What were her heroines concerned with?Shopping, morning calls, visits and balls.
- 19What was a common theme in many of her novels?the importance of self knowledge.
- 20What did she write?-pride and prejudice
-mansfield park
-Emma - 21What satire on the gothic novel did Austen write?North anger abbey
- 22Which poets, along with Austen, formed the romantic poets?-Wordsworth and Coleridge
- 23which movement was sir walter scott a part of?the romantic mouvement
- 24what did he start off as, and why did he stop?he started off as a poet, and decided to write novels when Lord Byron became more famous.
- 25What did Sir Walter Scott write?'"The Lady of the Lake"
- 26What is Scott known as?the father of the historical novel
- 27What was he the first to create?a sense of historical realism
- 28What did he (Scott) also write and what was it about?Waverley and it's about the Jacobite uprising in Scotland
- 29What 2 novels did Scott write and where were they set?-Quentin Durward, set in medieval France
-Ivonhoe, set in England of Richard the 1st
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