Late Gothic Flashcards
Treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812 (1814) →
ended the war between the US and the UK
Peterloo Massacre (1819) →
a meeting of peaceful protesters were massacred due to the privileged classes’ fears of a revolution
Catholic Emancipation Act (1829) →
allowed Catholics to sit as MPs and take public office, reduced the number of Irish peasants entitled to vote
Peel forms Metropolitan Police (1829) →
the first professional and full-time police force, suggested that they should not use weapons or wear military uniforms, so they appeared different from the army and British people did not think they were being controlled by the government
Slavery abolished in Empire (1833)
the Empire’s Caribbean colonies could no longer compete with larger plantation economies such as those of Cuba and Brazil, many plantation owners also feared slave uprisings, freed more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada
Victoria crowned (1838)
crowned at age 18, she was immensely popular when she ascended to the throne, over 400,000 visitors came to London for the celebrations
People’s Charter (1838)
part of the Chartist movement (the first mass movement driven by the working classes), demanded that all men should have the vote, parliamentary elections should occur every year, voting should take place by secret ballot and members of Parliament should be paid
‘Northanger Abbey’ by jane austen 1817
satirical parody (especially of Ann Radcliffe)
- Isabella - friends with her to go out with her brother.
- Creates gothic stories in her own life. –> delusions
- Thinks of herself as a Gothic Heroine.
- Gothic plots always have a logical explanation. –> She is scolded by Henry.
Avril Horner: on Northanger Abbey
“Austen’s novel offers a bridge between early Gothic fiction, in which the heroine is threatened by external forces, and later gothic novels in which drama moves more into the mind of the heroine”
