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Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

suggests, Gaskell specifically departs from the Victorian middle-class sensibility that equated decency with cleanliness. In doing...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote as Literature's 'First Novel'

as Garcia Marquez. These are often too artistic to really be a novel. While these are only a few of the types of written stories...

Change and the Victorian Age

poor. "This specialisation and - by implication - individualisation of labour was in marked contrast to the rural means of product...

Mother and Daughter Relationships in Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw

is further demonstrated when Vivie tries to talk to her mother about her life and how her "way of life" may not suit her mother. V...

Victorian England and the Rural Life Philosophy of Richard Jeffries

an almost detached amusement. He describes them rushing about, in a hurry to get to work and to work as hard as they can. However,...

Free Market Economy and Great Britain During the Victorian Era

was a time of free trade. This was a theory of self regulation; this can be seen as an optimistic idea. The invisible hand was t...

Punishment and Prisons in England During the Victorian Age in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

Culture and Criticism According to Matthew Arnold

original composition, rather than critiquing others, their time would be much better employed. Wordsworth said that "A false or ma...

The French Lieutenant's Woman, Christianity and Paganism

she stands at the coast, watching the stormy sea, hoping that her lover would return" (The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)). Fr...

Victorian Writers and Their Spirituality

Ruskin argued vehemently against the issue of slavery. Basically, he reasoned that men and women are no different from one anothe...

Reaction to The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

is described by Ovid as having unending youth, eternal boyhood: however, one of the points which Wilde is making is that Dorian is...

'Penelope' Chapter of Ulysses by James Joyce

point out that the number eight when laid on its side is the sign for infinity and that there is much to suggest that Molly is the...

Victorian Age National Trust Building Cragside

In eleven pages this innovative Victorian Age building, Cragside, in Northumberland, is examined in terms of Lord Armstrong's usag...

Philosophy and Literature's Importance

In five pages this paper discusses how important literature is in philosophical study. Eight sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Bildunsroman in 'Great Expectations' and 'Jane Eyre'

In 6 pages, this essay discusses how the coming-of-age is presented in these novels by Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte, with ...

Puritan And Victorian America and Gender

Puritan America is examined as well as the Victorian era. Gender is discussed in this context and the eras are compared and cont...

Feminist Literature's Portrayal of Prejudice and Oppression

observance of her passage past his house. Anne knows that she does not look like she fits in, and black person in a white suburb o...

Victorian Novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the Victorian era as represented in the Dickens novel is considered in terms of its false values,...

Self Discovery and French Literature's Evolution

good deal of the literature at the time. Lyric poetry more than likely arose from the songs of the minstrels and the singers whi...

Role of Women and Male and Female Relationships in Poetry of Yeats, Hardy, Arnold, and Tennyson

and many of the traditional roles played by men and women in society and is famous for one of his quotes "Men at most differ as He...

Literature's Deeper Meaning

the town of Bisbee. "It is July 20, 1989, early afternoon, monsoon season in the Sonoran Desert, and I am going back to Bisbee. A...

World Perceptions of the Victorian Era

In five pages this paper discusses how Victorian Era individuals perceived the world in a comparative analysis of Angela Thirkell'...

Victorian Era Writing

This paper considers 2 Victorian Age writings, essayist John Stuart Mill's 'Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment' and John Henry ...

Postmodernism's Rise and Literature's Fall

but vanished from the world, a look at the rise and fall of the New Criticism is rather appropriate. A set of practices called th...

Victorian Mindset in the Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stevenson

discussion will illustrate these points, and references to the city of London are referred to whenever possible as they substantia...

Literature's Classic Adventure

far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy" (Homer The Odyssey PG). The Odyssey was written in 800 B.C. and woven in...

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and Classism

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Collins' representation of social class is discussed in terms of his disdain for title and rank p...

Deviance from a Victorian View Perspective

see them in the context of the society in which they originated. The Victorian view of criminality The commonly expressed public ...

Victorian Twist to William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night Dream

In 6 pages this paper examines the validity of putting a Victorian Age twist on the telling of Shakespeare's Elizabethan comedy. ...

Victorian Age Hypocrisy and Advice

In five pages the hypocrisy of advice and attitudes in America during the Victorian era pertaining to women's sexuality is discuss...