Michael Winterbottom`s Tristram Shandy A Cock and Bull Story is the first film adaptation of Laurence Sterne`s Tristram Shandy Throughout the adaptation, Winterbottom tries to capture the chaotic spirit of Sterne`s novel in the film`s structure that consists of three different levels of fictional world the fictional world of Sterne`s novel in the form of a film-within-..
It seems that the eighteenth century has fostered readings that seek to describe a stable core of meaning in the text with an assumption that the 18th century English society itself was one of stability This paper aims at revealing that some 18th century English novels possibly have more than two meanings M G Lewis, the writer of The Monk, although seemingly taking the Field..
Despite the obvious truth that the social and personal position of women in the past was subordinate to that of men, the literary treatment of women has often conveyed rathet different sense of their role in society In as early literary works as in Chaucer`s poems, for example, one sees an exceptional woman character 10 the vivid and willful portrait of the Wife of Bath In Sh..
The novel Waverley deals with the historical conflict between the Whig Hanoverians and the Tory Jacobites In spite of some of the critical claims that in this novel Scott propagates the ideology of British rulers and thus cooperates in the internal colonizatIOn of the Scottish people, various examples from the novel prove that, contrary to this claim, Scott made every eff..
The world of Jane Austen`s novels is the late eighteenth century in southern England, in the paternalistic rural communities ruled by members of the landed gentry or the landed aristocracy Thus, her novels are novels of manners, in which life is described with stark clarity and irony Though most English novelists in the early eighteenth century were strongly didactic and s..
Jane Austen`s Persuasion has been considered as an important feminist work as it includes serious thoughts on the women`s status and the contemporary sexual ideology The purpose of this paper is to examine Austen`s feminist consciousness in relation to the contemporary social context through Persuasion The heroine Anne Elliot`s experiences of various groups provide her ..
Hardy`s primary interest is, as always, with his characters, and his sympathies are with them as people rather than with their time in history as the subject or setting of the novel He argues that the writer`s problem is how to strike the balance between the uncommon and the ordinary so as on the one hand to give interest and on the other to give reality In solving the problem, ..
This paper attempts to show the inadequacy or rather inappropriateness of some recent fermist approaches toward Hardy`s jude In somewhat preconceived purpose to vindicate Sue Bridehead`s final submission to the patriarchal marriage system, feminist critics argue that the additional burden of childbirth and upbringing severely handicapps and undermines the female protag..
This study is an intent to analyze Laurence Sterne`s Tristram Shandy in terms of its cultural and historical background Sterne`s philosophical outlook was shaped by the idea that the world is a farce and hollowness, an attitude that might have given a hint to John Keats for his negative capability It was gostered by the 18th century idea of man being in an isthmus of glory, ..
This article examines Mary Shelley`s Frankenstein in the feminist perspective, focusing on the validity of her purpose of the novel, the exhibition of the amiableness of domestic affectiom The society in Frankenstein is based on the rigid sexual division of labor the male inhibits the public sphere the female is relegated to the private sphere The intellectual activity in ..
This paper aims to read William Makepeace Thackeray`s Vanity Fair paying special attention to the author`s criticism of life in relation to the significance of the novel`s ending The novel, as its title Vanity Fair and subtitle A Novel without A Hero clearly tell, is a novel of anti-hero, apart from the traditional fiction of the romantic hero This perspecrive derives fro..
Feminist approaches to Charles Dickens haven`t been very sucessful because of his ambiguous attitude towards women While he seems to accept the Victorian steteotypes of gender roles, he is modifying and reaccessing those classic figures as Angel or Whore Bleak House is a unique work, not only because it shows so daring an experiments of novelistic form itself, but because ..
This study tries to examine Dickens`s important theme of social criticism in his last complete novel Our Mutual Friend with emphasis on his critical account of reification and fetishism in Victorian society Combining Marx`s and Lukacs`s concepts of reification and fetishism with Fredric Jameson`s theory of narrative and Mikhail M Bakhtin`s notion of novelistic discours..
Eliot`s letters as a whole can be read as a long narrative which casts some lights on her life and her fictional works Her letters written during the 1840`s are sometimes tedious, for they reflect the intense Evangelicalism of her yonth Those written during the 1850`s are probably most revealing becanse they were written, as Gordon Haight said, after she had thrown off her p..