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- Title
The Literary History of the Sash Window.
- Authors
Ramsey, Rachel
- Abstract
The essay discusses the history of the sash window and examines its literary significance in works including "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, "Tristram Shandy" by Laurence Sterne, and "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen. It notes a scene in Austen's book in which the heroine encounters sash windows in a bedroom, the sight of which provides the turning point of the story, and notes that literary critics have not paid enough attention to the historical significance of the sash window.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; WINDOW sashes; WINDOWS; WINDOWS in literature; ARCHITECTURAL details
- Publication
Eighteenth Century Fiction, 2010, Vol 22, Issue 2, p171
- ISSN
0840-6286
- Publication type
Essay