According to the pre-vetted locations, Gibraltar is located "at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula and surrounded on three sides by the Mediterranean Sea." "Gibraltar was ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 and remains a British Overseas Territory. It became an important base for the British Royal Navy in the nineteenth century and remained significant during the Second World War as a means to control the entrance to the Mediterranean." Due to its location, Gibraltar would obviously be important to the Navy men and the British government due to its pivotal location in the Mediterranean. Can you please add a few sentences to articulate the connection of Gibraltar to the novel Persuasion and its characters, explicitly? Thank you.
LIT 4046 Romantic Literature: Jane Austen (PLNU) Dashboard
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Our study of Romantic Literature will focus on the writing of Jane Austen (1775-1817), whose life and work is situated Regency Period and so carries the cultural influences of both the Enlightenment and the Romantic Periods. As we closely read four of her novels, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Persuasion (1818), , we will work to recognize and analyze the presence of major cultural issues that characterize the rise of Romanticism however overt or unacknowledged they may appear. Key issues will include the rise of democracy as expressed in Austen's consideration of women's lives and choices especially in relation to marriage and security; the laws governing inheritance and men's roles in maintenance of estates and wealth; the spectres of the lost American Colonies, the French Revolution, and military life; the struggle to abolish the slave trade and slavery in the British Empire as well the gentry's complicity in the economics of slavery, the genres of social satire, comedy of manners, and the female bildungsroman.
In tandem with our focus on the primary literary texts, we will also explore historical sources, maps, literary criticism of Austen's work, and sociological, religious, and cultural sources.
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According to the pre-vetted location, "Dorset is a county in southwest England. It covers an area of 2,653 acres. Modern-day Dorset includes the towns of Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Dorchester." As a fun fact, "Two Dorset harbors served as embarking points for the invasion of Normandy in World War II."
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Gloucester has roots dating back to the Roman Empire, when Gloucester was a fort city for Roman Britains. Although the city switched rulers often during the Saxon invasions, it became a stable city and county after the Norman Invasion in 1016. While the county profited from clothing and mining industries, it later diversified its economy with wagon-making and piano-making businesses.
Oxford University Press. A Dictionary of British History. Edited by John Cannon...
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