In the critical discourses, Hannah Webster Foster`s The Coquette (1797) has long been read as one of seduction novels fraught with didactic moral messages However, recent criticism rereads the work as a novel with subversive feminist intents Basically following this latter group of critical viewpoints, and taking into consideration the historical and cultural background ..
Isabel Archer is a typical American in the sense that she is innocent, ignorant of evil, and has a keen moral sense Most of all, she makes much of her own self For this reason, many critics argue that Emerson is reflected in Isabel Emersonian transcendentalism has a great influence on her, so that she maintains that the individual is opposed to society and that the self shoul..
The American romance is a kind of literary mutation in the history of 19th century Western novel Since the mid 1940s, critics have appropriated it in one way or another for the construction of American canons dominated by Anglo-Saxon white male writers The romance has been wily exploited as a central medium in the ideological manipulation of the canonicity of American novel..
As a writer who started learning English at the age of twenty and published his first novel in his late thirties, Conrad`s writing, both autobiographical and fictional, displays heightened awareness of the possibilities and pitfalls latent in language He was aware of the power of eloquence that will stir people into action, adventure, conquest, and war Power of words creat..
Henry Flelding`s posthumously published Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon ments close study because it provides a valuable crystallization of the novelist`s most heartfelt philosophies and it contains further elucidation of how Fielding constructed his narratives, methods which helped make the novel one of the major modern literary forms While travelogues were a popular lit..
William Godwin`s Caleb Williams fictionally stages a Habermasian public sphere as well as a Foucaudian power mechanism The novel realistically portrays a dystopian society in which panoptic power is exercised in the mode of an inquisitive watchful gaze, and at the same time imaginatively envisions a utopian Ideal that truth is communicated between equal human beings throu..
This paper attempts to auswer some of the questions critics are debating on Twain`s The Mysterious Stranger Manuserpts, such as Which of the three manuscripts, in addition to Paine and Duneka`s bowdlerized The Mysterious Stranger, A Romance, represents the author`s true intention, Should all three manuscripts be studied as one story told three different occasions or th..
This paper tries to illuminate George Eliot`s critique of the totalitarian desire of people, especially the intellectuals, and its impact to the person to person relationship, or the ethical relationship, of her age Characters like Casaubon, Lydgate, Naumann, Dorothea, and more are represented as those with the strong totalitarian desire Eliot criticizes their desires b..
This paper aims to show that the liberal context of the DIssenting culture can help us understand how Ann Radcliffe, the uncompromisingly proper lady of British fiction, can also harbor views that smack of revolutionary fervor and a commitment to female rights Her choice of Gothic romance is a conundrum when viewed against the model of the rise of the realistic novel in the ..
The magazine editors in 1860`s developed the intertextual strategies which influenced the formation of Victorian culture The magazines in which sensation novels were serialized provided a sensational discourse for their non-fiction features, just as the novels adopted the styles of popular sensational journalism for their themes This paper examines the intertextuality b..
Critical discussions of The Story of an African Farm(the Story) often fail to locate the feminist theme in the context of Schreiner`s ideas of evolutionary development of Humanity, paying little attention to its diverse narrative strategies Schreiner adopts in order to explore her ideas of New Woman, New Man, and New History The aim of this paper is to propose that the S..
In The Tragic Muse Miriam`s performance simultaneously reiterates and deviates from the sexually differentiated law, revealing the desire for female sexuality through her body Given that the biological body is not prelinguistic outside, to resort to woman`s body for female sexuality is always liable for biological essentialism But her body, through which her performance..
This paper examines The Awakening in Deleuzean perspective, focusing on nomad space and woman The heroine of Awakening realizes that she has been in the striated space, that is, patriarchy It is characterized both by the rigidity of social segmentation and the centralization of power She refuses the role that patriarchy allots to her and reacts against striated space, resu..
Although literary history has attempted overwrite and erase amatory fiction of earlier eighteenth-century women novelists, many elements of this popular genre were rewoven into the more elevated novels and became integral part of the English novel In this paper, I argue that widely divergent as they may seem the sentimental novel and amatory fiction share much in common I ..
Hannah Webster Foster`s novel The Coquette (1797) is a fictional retelling of the tragic life and death of an educated middle-class white woman of New England As an early American novel that offers an equivocal treatment of gender issues and moral dilemmas faced by women of the post-revolutionary era, it has been read as both a feminist manifesto and a sentimental cautionar..