This paper provides an alternative reading to the conservative view of Emma, which regards it as the reflection of Tory values Emma demonstrates a self-confident attitude, refusing to be guided by the `ultimate` authority figure, George Kinghtley Unchecked by Knightley`s mastery vision and fatherly role, Emma demonstrates vigorous passion and urges her logic and design ..
This paper aims to investigate the nature of female madness manifested in Victorian sensation novels, especially Lady Audley`s Secret by Braddon, one of the co-founders of so-called sensation novels Madness in Victorian period is the label given to any person who deviates from strict Victorian morality or ideal mode of behavior which are shaped and characterized by Victor..
Admittedly the first novelistic expression of American realism, Rebecca Harding Davis`s Life in the Iron-Mills portrays the life of American working class in realistic terms Davis`s novella examines the gulf between the laborer and the middle class and explores the possible ways to bridge it The tragic story of Hugh Wolfe, a puddler in an iron mill and a sculptor, exempli..
Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Braddon used the sensation novel as a medium to criticize femininity socially-prescribed by conduct books, masculinity defined by rank and property, and matrimony as a union of these two false ideals In The Woman in White and Lady Audley`s Secret these two authors overtly satirize and deconstruct stereotypical gender roles The strong emphasis..
Among Melville`s magazine stories written between 1853 and 1855, many deal with figures for the failed male artist placed in a variety of domestic, social, and commercial settings In this paper, I discuss his three later stories, Jimmy Rose, The Apple-Tree Table, and I and My Chimney, in which the old-fashioned male householders and the female family members with more mod..
There in no doubt that Dickens is one of the first writers who portrayed city life in its entirety and dynamics Great Expectations, one of the Dickens` later masterpieces, is different from other melodramatic novels with a hero as a young man from the countryside, who comes to be disillusioned by the metropolis In Great Expectations, the country is both a underdeveloped, un..
In the second half of the nineteenth century, writers in various parts of USA developed a genre of which women would be major practitioners It was first called `Local Color` literature, for it realistically represented the languages, customs, geography, and manners of specific regions Yet complex workings of geographical as well as gender hierarchies of American society m..
This paper aims to examine Dickens`s Little Dorrit terms of its relation with the modernity problem, focusing on the Blake`s distinction of `selfhood` (ie, the false self) from `identity` (ie, the genuine self) The individual as selfhood has the characteristics of egotistically following possessive impulses and embodying normalized selves on the other hand, the individua..
This paper examines the representation of female body in victorian Sensation Novel focusing on female bodymaternitymadness in Mary Elizabeth Braddon`s Lady Audley`s Secret Lucy Audley`s body is represented in the contradictory discourse on woman in which woman is figured as either demon or angel The iconography of angel and demon reflects the fear which pervaded middle-..
Collins wrote The Moonstone in the decade following Indian Mutiny, when the stories of rebel atrocities were still flourishing While Victonan Writings about Mutiny conform to racist pattern that calls for the extermination of Indians, Collins elaborately represents how anxiety about otherness works by displacing Indian Mutiny into the more distant siege of Seringapatam..
Although there have been some critics who observe the inconsistencies in David`s narrative, few explain how these inconsistencies originate in David`s consciousness Only some psychoanalytical readings discuss the coexistence of contradictory elements of David`s development in relation to his experiences of self and loss, especially in the early stages of development How..