The purpose of this study is to read The Way We Live Now in the historical and economical context of the 1870`s England The starting point of this study is Trollope`s idea of his fictional world as an artefact rather an as a representation of the real world The seemingly realistic portrayal of English society in his novel is only a narrative strategy Trollope adopts to creat..
This article exammes the female body and control in Victorian medical discourse and Charlotte Bronte`s Villette In the debate on the use of chloroform, both sides assumed the same model of female body female body which is unstable and needs to control Instability was simultaneously the norm of the female body and was defined as medically abnormal Mitchell`s treatment of the..
Starting from Hobbes and Hume in the 18th century, majority of philosophers have reached a consensus that free will and determinism can be reconciled The so-called reconciliation theory holds that man`s action`s being causally determined in terms of his character(ie, needs and motives) can by no means preclude his free will To say that he can choose and act in accordance wi..
This article analyzes George Eliot`s three works, Armgart(a poem, 1871), Middlemarch(1871-72), and Daniel Deronda(1876) from the feminist perspective of the conflict between love and art of three women artists In Armgart, it is discussed how prima donna, Armgart makes a decision between Graf Dornberg`s proposal and her desire to be an artist by surveying 1 Their discuss..
This paper is an attempt to analyze the `dialogic` narrative structure of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner and try to answer such questions as why James Hogg tells the same story twice or what effect he eventually gets from the twice-told tale The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner(1824) written by James Hogg, a Scottish poet an..
The Tragedy of Pudd`nhead Wilson by Mark Twain has been generally considered an unsuccessful novel because of its alleged lack of coherence and consistency in the development of Its themes and characters Critics maintain that the plot which started with the negro question evolving around Roxy and Tom are superseded by the mystery-detective story of Wilson Also they argue..
This paper is to present a new perspective on Captain Vere, the major character in Herman Melville`s last novel, Billy Budd The most important thing we should note on Melville`s text is to appreciate the aesthetic distance between the implied author and the narrator The optimistic world view of the Idealists prevailed over the country in the 19th century America As well kn..
The aim of this article is to reveal Lewis`s scepticism in The Monk The Monk critics can fall largely into two groups First group maintain that The Monk is pervaded by Lewis`s negative attitude to the new individualistic progressive ideology of the late 18th century, whose emphasis on the importance of individualism, individual emotion, and human instinct poses a threat t..
Mary Poovey and Nancy Armstrong explore how representations of gender took the form of a binary opposition in Victorian culture, and how the boundary between public and private (the male and female spaces) is established and enforced not by external rule but by processes structural to the modern middle-class family They also show how gender construction(the division of the..
Nearly one chapter in The American, a novel by Henry James, is consisted of the opera Don Giovanni What is the author`s intention and the effect in including this drama into the novel With this question as an initiative, in order to take into account the dramatic function of `play within a novel` and its effectual aspect, the relationship between this novel and its dramatic ..
When considering Darwin`s book Origin of Species, it is interesting to note that the Ideas of evolution developed in it were not Darwin`s original ideas, but those of Victorian intellectuals In fact, the famous phrases natural selection, the survival of the fittest, and the struggle for existence used by Darwin, are not his own It is also of interest to note that Darwin wa..
H Rider Haggard`s She is a typical imperial romance in its depiction of white heroes`s adventure among the benighted aliens However, this text is differentiated from other adventure narratives because it has not only the characteristics of the adventure narrative but also implications related to the Woman Question besetting the late Victorian society During the late nine..