As numerous critics have argued, in Moby-Dick Melville presents, in addition to the narrator Ishmael, various other artist figures who represent meditations on the issues of authorship of concern in his essay Hawthorne and His Mosses Among them, in particular, Ahab embodies a version of Melville`s view of the male author, deep-diving masculine genius When he insists on k..
In Hardy`s later novels the protagonists repeatedly try to establish ideal man-woman relationship as a substitute for the values of the Victorian society Social criticism and the pursuit of new values through an ideal man-woman relationship reach their zenith with Jude the Obscure But as in Hardy`s other novels the union of Jude and Sue eventually fails, too The narrator ..
A story is always subject to interpretation and the nature of narrative is in general open to penetration of interpretation Narratives must always have their secrets and the secrets can only be interpreted in their social context in view of the novel as a form of social discourse The aim of this study is to read what Charles Dickens wants his readers to see in his Little Dorr..
Despite its fame, New Historicist criticism of Victorian novels-as represented by the works of DA Miller, Nancy Armstrong, Catherine Gallagher, and Mary Poovey-does little more than follow the model of establishing simple analogy between literature and history, where the former obeys the dictates of the latter, while the latter appears as a predetermined structure that ..
Mary Shelley`s Frankenstein is now studied in classes - in such courses as English fiction, gothic fiction, science fiction, and courses in feminist literary criticism and women`s studies It was first published in 1818 and was reproduced by Standard Novels Edition in 1831 with Mary`s revision So far the 1831 text has been widely read owing to the Signet-NAL edition, which ..
The purpose of this article is to reveal Sterne`s world-view and his religious basis by analyzing Sterne`s reduction and enlargement of his materials in Tristram Shandy, Sterne`s masterpiece Sterne employed a telescopic vision as well as a microscopic one, which led him to present his materials in a reduced or an enlarged condition he reduced the great or important things,..
This paper attempts to read Nathaniel Hawthorne`s The House of the Seven Gables, focusing on interpreting the ending which has been the most controversial issue in reading this work The point has been that the ending is forced to a happy ending contrary to the logic of the story line, with a sudden cooperation of unexpected elements In trying to explain why Hawthorne created..
Jane Eyre An Autobiography is written by Mrs Rochester, the first-person narrator who writes retrospeclively after everything she records happened She seems a happy contented domestic woman, but the fact that she starts to write her life full of passion which consisted of both desire and rage implies that she speaks double She describes her development from a rebellious an..
The Egoist, a narrative comedy as Meredith subtitled, is the first of his novels to have a woman`s revolt against marriage conventions as its central issue In this novel he takes aim at society`s hypocrisy and egoism, while meditating upon his ideal of what women`s lives can and should be He subverts the patriarchal agenda of foregrounding the male egoist`s story by shifting..
Jane Nardm, in Jane Austen and the Problem of Leisure, discusses Austen`s changing attitude toward the concept of leisure and occupation reflected in the characters of her novels Nardin argues that in her first three novels, Austen was influenced by the earlier eighteenth-century novelists, while in her later novels, Johnsoman concept of work and leisure is predominant, ..