Olivia Rosso

Ms. Gardner

English 10/ Period 4

16 October 2016

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. ProQuest Biographies, ProQuest, 2006,

literature.proquestlearning.com/critref/displayitembyid.do?querytype=reference&forauthor=25

64&backto=author page&itemid=bio2564 pqllit_ref_lib.

This article is a detailed biography describing Austens life and career. The development of her

career shown through the article provides evidence on how she came to be one of the most

influential authors of all time and how her life affected her success.

The biography is significant to one who may be studying Jane Austen because it is simple to

understand and describes her life and career in detail. Those who also may be reading a novel of

hers may get more out of her writing by reading the article because it also explains her style of

writing and how it developed.

Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2012. Literature Resource\

"John Wiltshire."

Center,go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&sw=w&u=sant95918&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CH1000

205653&it=r&asid=c89070a2e49d38080e508194ab1c3314. Accessed 6 Nov. 2016.

 Wiltshires biography illustrates his work Recreating Jane Austen and summarizes Austen as

an author. Wiltshire claims that Austens film adaptations are well-translated on screen and that

every literary device she uses is portrayed by something such as the lighting of the film or the

body language of the actor.

The article reveals insight on Jane Austen through explaining how her novels are translated on

screen and creates something which one can take away from her novels, and the films based off

of her novels. It builds her up as an author illuminating and showing the reader of the article that

the strength of Austens voice in her novels is efficiently portrayed on screen.

Linkin, Harriet K. "Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the

Brontes." Clio(Fort Wayne), vol. 29, 2004., pp. 337.

In this article, Linkin introduces how feminism was brought up in different novels written in the

gothic period. Writers would subtly address gender roles which outlined feminism in the gothic

period not only in novels, but in real life as well. The article further describes how authors used

gender roles issues in their novels to build up their plot and storyline.

This article offers a significant explanation of authors in the gothic period and how they used

feminism in their novels. This would be helpful for one researching how gender equality has been

shaped today and how literature contributed to feminism today.

Maio, Kathi. Embracing the Anachronism . ProQuest Biographies, ProQuest, 2001,

 literature.proquestlearning.com/quick/displayitem.do?queryname=criticism&resultsid=157a1a61f

0f&forauthor=0&itemnumber=12.

The article gives examples and different types of anachronism used in the media, specifically

movies and books. Maio provides a few different examples and serves to further explain how

each examples is an anachronism.

This article provides a way to understand the topic of anachronism through examples in popular

movies that readers of the article have most likely watched. Maio gives two to three paragraphs

about how anachronism plays a role in each movie described.

Michaelson, Patricia Howell. "Woman's language; or, how to speak like Mrs. Palmer (and other silly

people)." Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, vol. 33, 2011, p. 53+. Literature Resource

Center. Accessed 6 Nov. 2016.

In this essay, Michaelson provides background to how the performance of gender takes place in

Northanger Abbey by contributing examples and explaining why womens language affects the

outlooks of feminism and gender in the novel. Michaelson also describes how Jane Austens view

on conversational roles defys women stereotypes specifically in Northanger Abbey.

Michaelsons analysis of conversational role in the novel offers examples to help the reader

understand why language affects gender roles especially in older novels. The essay serves to

make it simple for the reader to comprehend women versus mens language while reading
 Northanger Abbey. Michaelson further describes how language is so important for the story in not

only this novel, but other novels written by Jane Austen as well.

Niebuhr, Tiffany. "The ethos of humor: a study of the narrator in Northanger Abbey." Persuasions: The

Jane Austen Journal 34 (2012): 150+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 19 Oct. 2016.

While slightly summarizing the story, but attempting to get her point across, Niebuhr suggests

that the narrator in Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen uses a humorous and sarcastic ethos to

make the reader more comfortable with the narrators words. Niebuhr separates the books into

sections and pulls out evidence to which the narrator provides various forms of sophisticated

humor, proving that the whole novel carries a rather mordant approach.

Niebuhr offers different paragraphs analyzing the humor brought up in the novel, helping to

understand why the narrators wit is so important to the plot and the build up of characters. This

article and Niebuhrs observations on the narrator serves to provides one who is reading or wishes

to read Northanger Abbey and the intimacy crucial for them to feel while reading the narrators

pursuit for building plot with humor.