American and British literature and movements

  • Robinson Crusoe

    -sociability (important theme of 18th c)
  • the castle of Otranto (Horace Wallpole)

    -drew the characteristics of gothic genre
    - the uncanny (the disturbing in the familiar) -> poe also and freud
    -nightmare
    -> =/ Northanger Abbey by jane austen
  • Pride and prejudice

  • Alice in Wondrland (Lewis Carrol)

    • criticising the society during the victorian era, criticising education for ex -puns and twisting words around