“Did Guy Fawkes ever live?”: the Evolving Perspectives on the Figure of Guy Fawkes in Victorian Literature
“Did Guy Fawkes ever live?”: the Evolving Perspectives on the Figure of Guy Fawkes in Victorian Literature
Author(s): Monika Mazurek
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Victorian novel; historical novel; Harrison Ainsworth; Selina Bunbury; Guy Fawkes
Summary/Abstract: Within the framework of the theme of mid-19th century English anti-Catholicism, this article investigates the rise and fall of the bonfire night tradition of burning Guy Fawkes. It concentrates on analysis of Harrison Ainsworth’s popular 1841 historical novel Guy Fawkes and Selina Bunbury’s 1844 historical novel Coombe Abbey, both of which focus on the Gunpowder Plot.
- Page Range: 211-218
- Page Count: 8
- Publication Year: 2018
- Language: English
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