Tristram Shandy is pervaded by human sexuality Tristram, the narrator of the novel, emphasizes the importance and the power of sex in human life through the history of Strasbourg which was ruined by its excessive concern with a stranger`s big nose, a symbol of a male genital Shandean males, who identify the power of sex with that of words, attempt to dominate and control real..
Toni Morrison`s Tar Baby is a story of consciousness experiencing itself either inauthentically as Sartrian bad faith or authentically as Du Boisian double consciousness Human consciousness is radically divided from itself and experiences itself as the other, since it is consciousness of something other than itself Or to put it another way, human consciousness is necessa..
This paper examines how the notion of maternity in Woolf`s Mrs Dalloway is repressed and restored, by borrowing Julia Kristeva`s theory on maternity Kristeva argues that it is not a woman as such who is repressed in a patriarchal society, but motherhood She also insists that depression and melancholia come from the impossible mourning for the loss and repression of maternal..
Recent attempts to rescue Eliza Haywood and her amatory fiction from oblivion by feminist critics have done much to re-establish her reputation This paper attempts to place Haywood in the formation of the English novel and explore how Haywood, responding to the changing literary taste in the mid-eighteenth century, turns from earlier amatory fiction to the more respectabl..
Mary Shelley`s writing based on the relationship with her mother is correlated to the theories of Helene Cixous and Luce Irigaray Their primary concern is the female body, so they urge women to write about themselves, recovering their bodies buried as a dark continent, and therefore establish their subjecthood To accomplish this, it is necessary for women to have affirmati..
This essay aims to examine the representation of the West and coloniality postcoloniality in Mark Twain`s early works, especially Roughing It(1872) and The Gilded Age(1873) My article ultimately shows that Twain`s attitude toward the West is ambivalent and complicated He is contained in his contemporary hegemonic discourses on the West, but, on the other hand, he decon..
Sula`s experimental and explorative features are conspicuous from the introductory story of an imaginary Black community named `the Bottom,` which is now on the verge of destruction by the `white` civilization `The Bottom upon a hill` is at once a realistic representation of the Black life and a parodic criticism of the white American`s founding narrative, `City upon a hil..
Henry Fielding`s The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great (first published in 1743) is essentially a farce (in the form of a burlesque criminal narrative), a transitional work from Fielding`s theatrical farces in the 1730s to the comic prose fiction in the 1740s Often underestimated, `farce` is the quintessential mode in which Fielding perceives and represents both the worl..
Compared with his previous masterworks like Bleak House or Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, Dickens`s last completed work catches the new features of the modernity in the wake of the development and growth of the Victorian capitalist economy Actually, the presence of Veneering itself witnesses Dickens`s acute awareness of the transformation of society Veneering, as his..
The tropes of consumption and addiction were used as the warning against the women readers in the Victorian period To maintain the ideology of the middle-class, reading with discrimination was strongly recommended and reading the popular text such as romance, melodrama and sensation novel was compared to the addiction to narcotics This paper examines the relation between s..
Ann Radcliffe`s The Romance of the Forest signals the culmination of the Gothic in the 1790`s Admittedly a pioneering piece of work in the genre, her novel also shares many aspects with travel literature which was at its vogue in her time Borrowing from the aesthetic theories of Edmund Burke concerning the idea of the Sublime and the Beautiful, Radcliffe has the heroine un..
This essay aims to investigate the problem of self as divided ego in his later works, especially The Jolly Corner(1908) and The Sense of the Past (1917) In the works, James`s heroes pursue the other selves who are similar to heroes, but are very antithetical to them In The Jolly Corner Spencer Brydon searches for the ghost who takes after him in the house where he lived in ..
This paper presents a socio-historical, economic per se, reading of Life and Death of Mr Badman Christopher Hill argues that the work is about a conflict between the traditional morality based on Scripture and the impersonal capitalist or market economy as a powerfully rising force at the time But taking Mr Badman as a straightforward embodiment of the then rising capital..
This paper aims to examine the ideological conditions of Arthur Conan Doyle`s Sherlock Holmes fiction My overall view is that Conan Doyle`s detective fiction is an extension of his literary goal to restore `the golden myth of England`, an imaginary ground for social unity and totality that stands opposed to the conflicting, non-unifying realities of late Victorian societ..
Starting from her very first published fiction, Mr Gilfil`s Love-Story in Scenes of Clerical Life, George Eliot shows an abiding interest in Italy and Italian characters, which cannot be reduced merely to her reverence for Dante For one thing, the violent, jealous, and passionate Italian girl Caterina in Mr Gilfil`s Love-Story follows the well-established tradition of..