Representations of Englishness in Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' (1817) and Virginia Woolf's 'Between the Acts' (1941)

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Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, grade: Pass, Uppsala University (Department of English), course: MA Hauptseminar: Englishness and the Making of a Cultural Identity, language: English, abstract: After providing a short overview of the historical circumstances of both novels, this essay analyzes the representation of England and Englishness, first in Austens Northanger Abbey and then in Woolfs Between the Acts. Aspects discussed include the relationship between town and countryside, the presentation of crime, houses and landscape as well as the selection of characters.

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