This article examines Twain and Cable`s critical attitudes towards the racial issues in the 19th century American South Two authors were the first Southern writers who dealt with Southern social issues, the race question and the state of black in society It should be noted that although their works such as The Grandissimes, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Tragedy ..
The senalization of a relatively obscure writer`s Scenes of Clerical Life in Blackwood`s Edinburgh Magazine was crucial in the process of the transformation of Marian Evans, the reviewer of Westminster Review, into George Eliot, the author of best-sellers published by Blackwood and Sons The immediate question that this change raises concerns the clear difference in pol..
Since its publication, Henry James`s The Turn of the Screw has been widely celebrated for its unresolved ambiguity Critics have debated whether it is a ghost story or a psychological case study about the delusions of a sexually frustrated young woman In this study, it is not my intention to enter into the inexhaustible interpretive delirium, nor is my purpose to provoke an ..
In this paper, I speculate about speculating in the cultural form and commodity we call the eighteenth-century English novel within the dual discourses of value-the economic and the cultural The opposition between the two discourses develops within a society experiencing radically new forms and tokens of value based on commerce, exchange and speculation in new financial m..
This paper analyzes the technical aspects of Henry James`s satire in his Naturalist novel, The Bostoniam It is generally held that the satire in this particular novel is two-pronged James, in his criticism of American culture in the 1880s, mocks the absurdity of Northern intellectual attitudes, as represented by Boston women reformers, and the crudity of Southern chivalr..
George Eliot`s novel Middlemarch describes itself as a `domestic epic` and is often praised for its incluslveness The tension in the book is created by the mismatch between the provincial town that is its subject-matter and the cosmopolitan sweep of allusion in the narration The work is braced also by the particular ironies generated between the time of its setting (the lat..
In Great Expectation, its main characters are frequently in a forced dialogue condition The desire to make the other listen and the desire to make the other speak are dominant in this forced dialogue situation Dialogue does not arise from the various individual points of view, but demonstrates a social field of pressures and disproportions Dialogue as free, voluntary, and ..
This article illuminates aspects and methods of parody on Victorian androcentric sexgender discourse in Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy The Victorian gender dichotomy and bl-polar views of women, as either virgins or whores, are parodied through the characterizallon of Sue and Arabella Victorians regarded contradictory and inconsistent women, such as Sue, as being a p..
Plinlimmon`s pamphlet in Pierre or the Ambiguities has been one of the most controversial topics in Melville criticism Many critics read it as a satire or an irony on expediency and opportunism, while some others regard it as a serious statement of Melville`s view This paper examines the source of this confusion by analyzing the followings the way the pamphlet is presented ..
This paper examines Felix Holt, the Radical from the perspective of psychological developmental theonsts of 1980s such as Nancy Chodorow and Jean Baker Miller All these psychological theorists argue that Sigmund Freud is prejudiced when he suggests a hypothesis concerned about the psychological developments of a boy and a girl His hypothesis is that the boy`s psychologi..
The ideological assumptions of Victorian womanhood was bound up with the project of the imperialism in the late nineteenth-centry England Especially women`s role as nurturers and preservers of racial purity was put to use as part of the colonialist project This paper examines the relation of motherhood and colonialism in Olive Schreiner`s The Story of an African Farm foc..
Mark Twain`s Roughing It (1872) has been interpreted as to support the colonial regime, legitimizing the frontier myth of the late nineteenth century America The companson of Roughing It with the nineteenth century American history text, The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893) by Frederick Jackson Turner, and with a series of four documentary films ..
For a long time, many critics have argued that Jane Austen`s Persuaion reveals the central theme of the value crisis which resulted from her loss of faith in the moral values of the gentry class They find that Austen`s portrayal of the vain and hollow Sir Walter as well as his mismanagement of Kellynch Hall evinces her disappointment in this class, which she had firmly uphe..
Colonialism in Aphra Behn does not appear to invite another discussion, as so many critics have pointed out the limits and fissures, racist attitude, and royalist allegory in Behn`s novella and plays However, they have not given enough justice to the fact that her novellas and plays should be placed in the historical context of the late 17th century attiutude towards colony,..
While the materialistic middle class upstarts and corrupt aristocrats are poignantly satirized in Vanity Fair, more Importantly, It dramatizes popular female types widely accepted at that period the angel of the house and the demoniac woman The narrator, who confesses that he is a man, seems to faithfully adhere to the Victorian dichotomy of women Amelia Sedley confines he..