Jane Austen’s Emma and Social Convention
The character of Emma from Austen’s book of the same name, published in 1815 – the same year that the Napoleonic Wars finally ended, is a character which seems to defy the limitation...
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Women, Romance and Realism in Jane Austen’s Emma: Part 2
However this ambitious marriage for Harriet was never a plausible match because of her status. What’s more it turns out that in fact Mr Elton has absolutely no interest in her because he i...
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Women, Romance and Realism in Jane Austen’s Emma: Part 1
Emma Woodhouse, Harriet Smith and Jane Fairfax are highly different characters from Jane Austen’s novel Emma, first published in 1815. In the opening of the text Emma is described almost i...
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Film Review: Star Trek Beyond
Star Trek Beyond is the third in the series of the rebooted Star Trek films, the first of the reboots not to be directed by the brilliant J. J. Abrams – directed instead by Justin Lin. I&r...
