Word: smollett
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mother. Moers also persuasively argues that the gothic novel has its origins in Radcliffe's desire to find a respectably feminine substitute for the male picaresque tradition. The mysterious creaking castles kept her 18th century maidens properly indoors, while providing them with all the alarms and excursions that Smollett's rogues enjoyed. Moer's discussion of Jane Austen and George Eliot as the ying and yang of British class-consciousness is brilliant...