This paper examines the relation between Christian culture and sexuality m Thomas Hardy`s Tess of the D`Urbervllles and Jude the Obscure, focusing on the 19th-century ideology of female sexuality Through Tess Hardy explores the Christian view of female sexuality and attempts at a redefinition of feminity He repeatedly stresses the ways m which Tess`s sexuality is revea..
This paper deals with the impossibiltty of mterpreting Jonathan Swift`s A Tale of a Tub as a unified whole, which results m the end in the tragedy of being a reader who is forced into the antagonistic relationship with the author The expression tragedy comes from the observation that in this work the desirable relationship between the author and the reader comes under doubt ..
In Wieland Charles Brockden Brown creates a family and shows how its flaws leads to its tragic fall The history of the Wieland`s family with its ghastly murders and undercurrents of incest causes the Wielands to become finally a standard of failure The nature of this family, the reasons for its failure or fall, and the tragic consequences make up the central concerns of the ..
Carlyle`s phrase Condition-of-England encompasses the major difficulties of industrial society political inequality, economic inequities and spiritual impoverishment To Gaskell it summons up economic inequities that rendered England two nations Her second industrial novel, North and South, examines what role a woman can do in curing the Condition-of-England The heroi..
This paper examines the cultural map of victorian society related to the rise of dandyism and aims to open a new perspective on such issues in victorian literature as social class, gender, and visibility The dandy in nineteenth century England was an upper class young man who tried to make himself a spectacle- a calculated self-presentation to an imagined gaze - and, by doing..
This article investigates the political underpinnings of The Italian or the Confessional of the Black Peritents in the context of 18th century English nationalism Although critics have traditionally viewed Radcliffe as a conservative writer, The Italian reveals much evidence of progressive nationalistic ideology both in terms of class and gender This article traces how..
That Henry James`s literary achievement consists in large part in his superb portrayal of women is not a recent discovery There has been a long tradition in which James`s writing was immediately associated with the notion of femininity, in terms of his art and his biography alike In this essay, I examine cultural and political implications of such an association, and re-eva..
This paper attempts to read Hardy`s Jude the Obscure strictly in terms of the theory and vision of modern tragedy As is usually agreed upon among literary critics, the tragic spirit of the Western literature has turned to novel for its expression in the nineteenth century The modern tragic novel, however, differs from its classical counterparts in its vision and form First,..
In this article, I will analyze the psychological conflict inscribed in the body of Gwendolen through her hysteria In that the female body has meaning as a place where psychological conflict is inscribed in recent discourses of the female body Besides the three episodes in Gwendolen`s childhood that suggest her hysteria in the first stage, there are three episodes wherein s..
Marxist critics insist that James`s aestheticism lacks historical consciousness, and thus he is indifferent to the new impenal world order However, reading James`s The Golden Bowl(1904), written at the turn of the century when British impenalism declines and the new American imperial power rises with the peak of immigration to America, enables us to challenge to that ide..