Courtship and spatiality in nineteenth-century English novels by Divya Athmanathan

“…My close study of Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1818), Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1855) and Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities (1859) in the context of nineteenth-century discourses such as paintings and illustrations by artists such as John Everett Millais and Anthony Hopkins demonstrates the ways in which structures such as wine-shops, prisons, and factories manipulate the narratives of affective relations. …”
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