Dickens' sketches are the direct descendants of the essayists of the Romantic Era, the subjects are similar, the content is all urban, and for Dickens this continues on in Bleak House. ... This view of London is portrayed in all of Dickens' work, and his description and his attention to detail is a major characteristic of his work from the grubbiness and cruelty in Oliver Twist to finding the plain beauty of hanging clothes in Meditations in Monmouth-Street in Sketches by Boz 'I have purposely dwelt upon the romantic side of familiar things' Dickens confirms in the preface...

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Poe is grouped with other writers in the Romantic period. ... His viewpoint of life was unique compared to the Romantic writers of the century. ... They will scrutinize the symbolic meanings of his passages and figure out their meanings. ...

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Emily Bronte's novel, "Wuthering Heights," covers all of the requisite themes necessary to earn its place in the Gothic genre: villainous behavior, helpless heroine, and horrific weather all in a decrepit, haunted setting. Conversely, Wuthering Heights, is most often described as one of the most tra...

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The Christian attachment to Gothic emerged from its connection to Gothic and Gothic Revivalist architecture, though from the nineteenth century the Romantics gave an appraisal of Christianity that differed from its previous depiction. As Minghui said, '...Gothic authors themselves questioned the relevance of religion, foregrounded issues on scientific antitheism by presenting Christianity in a dubious light, present, but altogether powerless...'2 A late Romantic example of this exists in the Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Maturin, a narrative that suggested an ar...

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