Charles Dickens visited America twice in his life in 1842 and 1867 This article aimes at pursuing how these two visits influenced his literary works The reasons why Dickens wanted to set out for the United States in his visit are firstly, that he intended to redress too harsh and critical views of the authors who wrote about Americans and American Society until then by writi..
Dickens`s earlier novels demonstrate his unique comic creativity far more profusely than his later ones As a result, we can read his earlier novels with greater ease and pleasure The Pickwick Papers is the best example Pickwick and Sam are the most original invention of Dickens`s comic imagination in the novel With the harmonious contrast of their attractive personalities,..
Critical languages of twinning, doubling, and dividedness have developed around the writer Sam ClemensMark Twain Clemens doubles himself within fictions and by his pseudonym Mark Twain He is fascinated with the paired and double characters and the mistaken and switched identities Some biographical explanations and writerly career are available as the evidence that Twai..
The brilliant achievement of aroonoko, written by female author Aphra Behn, lies in her use of an organic consistency of double discourse This article articulates Behn`s magnificent application of double discourse through an illumination of both the surface and deep discourses Most importantly, this study reveals the purpose of aroonoko`s double discourse which is for Be..
Appreciating the insights provided by various new perspectives related to poststructurallst theory, my intention in this paper is to focus on Douglass`s rhetorical strategies in his first autobiography, which is also one of the most famous of the antebellum slave narratives This paper explores Douglass`s religious rhetoric employed in his Narrative, especially the puntan..
The two important theses of the `New Historicism`, which asserts turning away from theory toward history, culture, society, politics, and institutions, may be `the historicity of texts` and `the textuality of history` These theses are very useful to understand the text of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which is regarded as a promising candidate for a new histo..
This paper proposes to study on George Eliot`s cultural feminism in The Mill on the Floss As a starting point for this argument, this paper accepts Josephine Donovan`s view that cultural feminism has been existed side by side with Enlightenment feminism during the nineteenth-century That women were different from men and, in general, inferior to them was a Victorian commo..
The purpose of this paper is to examine Thomas Hardy`s Eustacia Vye in The Return of the Native in relation to the Egdon community and Victorian Sexual Ideology Hardy concentrates on the female desire, repeatedly stressing the ways in which Eustacia`s vast desire is revealed, oppressed and frustrated in the Egdon Close reading of the text shows that the Egdon is not a si..
Hardy`s Under the Greenwood Tree has often been called a prose pastoral and loved rather intensely if not the most highly-regarded of his novels The protagonists, Dick and Fancy, in the environment of rural reality are not innocent of the facts of life But it is the happiest of his works, it has no shade of tragedy and raises no serious issues In most cases, the critical vlew..
This paper aims to read The Well-Beloved as Hardy`s last novel and a deliberate farewell to his novel writing with special emphasis on how it sheds light on and parodies his former novels and also in what ways it comments on the conventional novels of the Victorian period First, Hardy`s comment on novel is discussed and then, how they are incorporated in The Well-Beloved is ..
Though Hard Times and Ruth have similar plots with similar characters, the endings of the novels are extremely different Both novels have oppressive fathers forcing rebellious daughters to marry leading businessmen in their towns, obedient wives following blindly their husbands, fallen sons stealing the money from their offices and adopted girls from the low class helpin..