Representations of Englishness in Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' (1817) and Virginia Woolf's 'Between the Acts' (1941)

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, grade: Pass, Uppsala University (Department of English), course: MA Hauptseminar: Englishness and the Making of a Cultural Identity, language: English, abstract: After providing a short overview of the historical circumstances of both novels, this essay analyzes the representation of England and Englishness, first in Austen-s Northanger Abbey and then in Woolf-s Between the Acts. Aspects discussed include the relationship between town and countryside, the presentation of crime, houses and landscape as well as the selection of characters.