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Daisy Miller by Henry James and Dramatic Intensity

Daisy and the Miller family and is informed that they are not a good family to know. Winterbournes aunt tells him "They are very ...

The Antebellum Economy of the United States

until the outbreak of the War Between the States during the middle of the century), the country almost seemed to be two polar oppo...

Issues in Asian American Literature

This paper offers ten brief essays, with each essay roughly one-page in length and pertaining to issues that addressed in Asian Am...

Thoreau/Importance of Wilderness

requirements of the wilderness can be defined as the "difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony" ...

Four Commencement Speakers from American History

Americas historical experience with race, ethnicity, and/or gender. Who could be more appropriate for this task than one of our c...

Comparative Analysis of Henry James' Portrait of a Lady and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie

show business, and also very well liked in this particular field. As such she does better than make a living yet does not tell Hur...

Isabel, Rejection, and The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

explore and make her own path instead of taking the predictable and traditional route (Summary of "Portrait of a Lady", 2004)....

Model A’s, Model T’s, and the Changing Face of America

few weeks later, the company sold its first automobile, to a doctor in Detroit (Davis). As noted above, the company produced 1,700...

Private Sector Elite and the U.S. Constitution

In six pages this paper discusses how a private sector elite was created by American Founding Fathers George Washington, Thomas Je...

Hesitant Love in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton and Daisy Miller by Henry James

for reasons that he cannot fathom. "Daisys beauty is to be apprehended and judged, then, according to its degree of artifice. It...

Major Characterizations in Daisy Miller by Henry James

In five pages this paper examines the characters of Frederick Winterbourne and Daisy Miller as they are presented in James's novel...

Conflicted Relationships in Daisy Miller by Henry James and McTeague by Frank Norris

In five pages this paper examines the relationship conflicts between Daisy and Winterbourne in Daisy Miller and McTeague and Trina...

Evil According to Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, and Henry James

battling with his conscious for some time, Huck writes a letter to Miss Watson, who is Jims owner that tell where Jim is. Afterwar...

Daisy and Her Financial Status in Daisy Miller by Henry James

an open and unsuspecting young woman and places her in the context of a closed and suspicious world of condemnation and value judg...

Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James' The Turn of the Screw

In eight pages these two supernatural tales are analyzed in a comparison and contrast of similarities and differences. There are ...

Henry James' Daisy Miller and J.D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield as Social Outcasts

In seven pages this paper examines how social outcasts can take different forms in a comparative analysis of Daisy Miller and Catc...

The Jolly Corner by Henry James

In five pages this paper examines the protagonist's doppelganger searches and the emotions that are experienced as a result. Ther...

Nineteenth Century Childhood in the Works of Henry James

In eight pages this paper examines how 19th century childhood is reflected in James's What Maisie Knew and The Turn of the Screw. ...

'The Beast in the Jungle' by Henry James

dynamic. The couple was reunited after a period of ten years, but John is too preoccupied with what he perceives to be his ultima...

Psychological Stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James

In five pages this essay discusses the supernatural and psychological narratives that are featured in Poe's short story 'The Black...

American Literature's Romantic Movement

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

Transcendental Abstracts

that is, rather than a creature called "Man" who had to do everything, Man became priest, scholar, farmer, and so on (Emerson). Th...

Thoreau/Civil Disobedience

American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...

The Mask by Fumiko Enchi, Turn of the Screw by Henry James, and Gender

Enchis The Mask. The governesss crisis, as I read it, arises in her struggle to define herself (as we all must) in terms of the ga...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Henry James' Turn of the Screw and Evil

the Suppression of Savage Customs in which he claims that the white man in Africa must "necessarily appear to them [savages] in th...

Conveyance and Point of View Manipulation in Turn of the Screw by Henry James

appear to be fraternizing with ghosts, are not so much the focus of the story as the governess, who begins questioning if what she...

Daisy Miller by Henry James

In six pages Daisy Miller is analyzed in terms of its theme and characters. There is no bibliography included....

Social Misunderstanding in Daisy Miller by Henry James II

In five pages this paper examines how social class consciousness led to misunderstanding in the characterizations of Daisy and Win...

Evil in Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

In ten pages this paper examines how the theme of evil serves to develop the plot of the novel. There are at least six sources ci...

Insanity and Sexual Hysteria in Turn of the Screw by Henry James

trouble him--but never, never; neither appeal nor complain nor write about anything; only meet all questions herself, receive all ...