Jane Austen [ Art and Literature ]
… Morland, the inexperienced heroine of Northanger Abbey , is initiated along with the reader into the daily social rituals of the town of Bath , that ‘laboratory of Georgian sociability’ which accommodated a large population of seasonal … not only discuss her works and hold regular literary conferences but re-invent through costumed re-enactment social rituals based on the novels. More recently, the virtual realm of the internet has generated new and unexpected sites for …
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