I will try a feminist reading of Adam Bede in this article I wonder how a feminist evaluation of Dinah (admired as a character of piety and desirable virtue) and Hetty (accused as a character of vanity inspite of her beauty), will be different from a traditional interpretation In addition, there are the major issues of 1) a sudden change from the first part (an idealistic rep..
The critical consensus with regard to Thomas Hardy`s The Woodlanders is that its rural setting embodies the same value as that of pastoral, and the characters and the central theme are essentially pastoral In many cases, the specificity of the Little Hintock community and Grace Melbury`s conflict has been denied or ignored The purpose of this paper is to study The Woodlan..
The reality of Benito Cereno is difficult to perceive However, Melville offers us some hint for grasping it with the technique of metadrama That is to say, we can recognize the true intention of the author by the mutual reflexive effect of `play-within-play` the shaving scene and the deposition scene The result is that the reader must participate actively he must cooperate ..
Heary James(l843-l9l6) conceives freedom of consciousness as a way of overcoming the possessive values that dominate a capitalist society However, when he tries to show this theme in his novels, contrary to his intentions, the main characters with such freedom of consciousness are found to have the egoistical and possessive values that they had rejected Furthermore, his nov..
This article is an attempt to understand the inconsistencies of Moll Flanders through an analysis that will illuminate the source of the novel`s contradictions Moll Flanders contains a double structure, that is, two stories which contradict each other, one is Moll`s original story and the other is the editor`s who is introduced in the preface The contradictions focus on th..
Feministic criticism made a contribution to the scholarship of Tristram Shandy, one of the neglected novels in the Enghsh literature, by drawing the reader`s attention to the importance of the female characters in the novel On the one hand, It is significant in the fact that Feministic criticism acknowledged the novel`s function as a historical reflection of the period, th..
To this day, Jane Austen`s novel has been evaluated only by a limited single view, that of the West European Countries But from a different point of view, we can see in her `domestic novel` wide range of imperialistic culture which was prevalent in the eighteenth and nineteenth century of England This paper aims to examine the imperialistic influences as well as its element..
The intent of this study is to unveil a socialization process which occurs with in the female community in Charlotte Bronte`s novels Bronte`s heroines discover that their search for and subsequent relationship with substitute mothers enable them to construct their identities and authorities through a process of identification and differentiation The types of maternal con..
This article examines how Charlotte Bronte takes an old Gothic device and uses it for giving a dramatic form to her feminist consciousness In Gothic novel female sexuality is entirely projected on the ghost, who mirrors the potential for the heroine`s sexual transgression Bertha in Jane Eyre and nun in Villette are the original transformations of the Gothic ghost Adopting..
Charles Dickens, in his later years, was rather a solo performer than a novelist Although the unique chatactel of his public reading comes from his own dramatic talent, what, in the first place, made him take public reading as an important part of his career was the degenerated situation of his contemporary theater of melodrama and burlesque He adapted many Christmas stories..
Charles Dickens consistently employed the relationship between parent and child as an important motif in his denunciation of the injustice and corruption of Victorian society This study focuses on father-daughter relationships in his novels, and argues that his use of daughters rather than sons enabled him to make a more poignant and effective indictment of society I exami..
The purpose of this study is to read Barchester Towers as a social discourse, as a social interaction between Anthony Trollope and mid-nineteenth century English society Trollope, who was well aware of the power of writing, uses novel to achieve his social and political desires a desire to be accepted as a member of the society and a desire to have an influence upon the soci..
The focus of feminist studies on The Mayor of Casterbridge has been Henchard`s pilgrimage toward the feminine, in which the specificity of the Casterbridge community has been largely ignored The purpose of this paper is to study The Mayor of Casterbridge in relation to the contemporary social context, focusing on the modernization of Casterbridge and its influences on th..
In The Blithedale Romance, Hawthorne taps on the possibility of new future history writing through the contemporary experimental movement of utopian community based on transcendentalism In this work, he throws the question whether Americans can reach millennium by simply establishing a structural reformation through moving into the country from the city under the optimi..