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119 See also: Jane Eyre 128–31 ■ Vanity Fair 153 ■ North and South 153 ■ Middlemarch 182–83 ROMANTICISM AND THE RISE OF THE NOVE ...

120 WHO SHALL CONCEIVE THE HORRORS OF MY SECRET TOIL FRANKENSTEIN (1818), MARY SHELLEY G othic fiction established its main them ...

121 See also: Doctor Faustus 75 ■ Nachtstücke 111 ■ Faust 112–15 ■ Wuthering Heights 132–37 ■ The Picture of Dorian Gray 194 ■ D ...

122 ALL FOR ONE, ONE FOR ALL THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1844), ALEXANDRE DUMAS A lthough the idea of setting a novel in a previous pe ...

123 See also: Ivanhoe 150 ■ The Last of the Mohicans 150 ■ Les Misérables 166 – 67 ■ War and Peace 178–81 ■ A Tale of Two Cities ...

124 See also: Tristram Shandy 104 – 05 ■ A Hero of Our Time 151 L ike the main protagonist in Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin ( ...

125 See also: Lyrical Ballads 110 T he Transcendentalist movement thrived in the US in the mid-19th century, inspired by German ...

126 YOU HAVE SEEN HOW A MAN WAS MADE A SLAVE; YOU SHALL SEE HOW A SLAVE WAS MADE A MAN NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLA ...

127 The writing of narratives by slaves had a dual effect: in addition to furthering the cause of the abolitionists, the texts m ...

128 I AM NO BIRD; AND NO NET ENSNARES ME JANE EYRE (1847), CHARLOTTE BRONTË W hen Jane Eyre was first published in 1847, it was ...

129 See also: Wuthering Heights 132–37 ■ Middlemarch 182–83 ■ The Magic Mountain 224–27 ■ Wide Sargasso Sea 290 identity was oft ...

130 absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow- minded in their more privileged fellow creatures to ...

131 brings the frustration of women’s ambitions into focus. The reality of domestic responsibility dictating women’s lives, whic ...

I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT MY LIFE! I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT MY SOUL! WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1847), EMILY BRONTË US_132-137_WutheringHeights ...

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134 E mily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is considered one of the most famous love stories in Western culture. This is, however, a ...

135 Wuthering Heights did not enjoy immediate success when it was published in 1847, perhaps because Victorian sensibilities cou ...

136 space was contrasted with the literal and moral poverty of the streets outside. Brontë, however, brought the raw realities o ...

137 first comes to Wuthering Heights, he expects to find a typical Victorian country house—the kind of domestic home Dickens was ...

THERE IS NO FOLLY OF THE OF THE EARTH WHICH IS NOT INFINITELY OUTDONE BY THE MADNESS OF MEN MOBY-DICK (1851), HERMAN MELVILLE BE ...