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Historical Plausibility of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In 5 pages this great American novel is analyzed in an historical overview of the relevant 19th century issues including children'...

Dream of the Red Chamber by Tsao Hsueh-Chin

In six pages this Chinese novel from the 18th century is analyzed. There are no other sources listed....

Fools Crow by James Welch

In five pages this research paper examines the Blackfeet Native American tribe of the 19th century as depicted in James Welch's no...

Language and Realism in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In five pages this paper discusses how dialect is used for the purposes of realism in this late 19th century American novel. Ther...

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

In 7 pages this paper examines how German Romanticism is rebutted in this novel by Thomas Mann, which also symbolically represents...

2 Movie Versions of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders

In 5 pages this paper examines what the film versions of this novel reveal more about the times in which they were made than the e...

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and the Characters of Clarissa and Septimus

In five pages this paper examines the characters in this Virginia Woolf novel in terms of how they reflect changing social moods o...

Contemporary Relevance of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

In 5 pages the contemporary relevance of this 16th century play is assessed in terms of the cloning debate and a similar theme fea...

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn and Historical Background

In 5 pages this paper examines the depiction of slavery in the 17th century novel by Aphra Behn in terms of historical accuracy. ...

Eighteenth Century Prostitution and Eroticism in Fanny Hill by John Cleland

In twelve pages this report examines how Cleland presents prostitution and eroticism in his scandalous eighteenth century novel Me...

Roles of Women in Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Ilyich and Anna Karenina

to them" (Rowe, 3). Intensely shy, he was nonetheless intensely sexual, and this was to present problems for him for the rest of h...

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House as a Reflection of 19th Century Social Issues

In four pages this paper examines how the playwright represents social issues in this 19th century dramatic play....

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and Modernism

In 5 pages modernism of the 20th century is defined and then applied to this American novel by Ernest Hemingway. There are 3 sour...

Lazarillo de Tormes in New York City

yours. Stand still, shut your eyes, and wait." I did, and something began to happen. The air began to hum.. I tried to open my ey...

Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness, and the Importance of Setting

Williards mission is more severe then Marlows. While Marlow endeavors to bring Kurtz back to civilization, Williards mission is to...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens' and Impact of Rapid Industrialization

In five pages the effects of rapid industrialization in 19th century England are examined within the context of Dickens' novel in ...

The Five Minute Marriage by Joan Aiken

In five pages this paper examines how 19th century English greed is portrayed in Joan Aiken's novel, The Five Minute Marriage. Th...

Interpretation According to Ronald Dworkin and Charles Darwin's Bleak House

In fifteen sources this paper discusses philosopher Ronald Dworkin's views on interpretation and offers a legal comparison between...

Early US Penitentiaries and 3 Concepts

In three pages this paper examines 3 concepts on 18th century penitentiaries with Pennsylvania and the Quaker influence the primar...

Love as the Theme of The Coquette by Foster

In four pages this paper examines how this 18th century novel thematically represents love. There are no other sources listed....

Ulysses by James Joyce

In 5 pages this paper examines the complexities of this great 20th century novel and considers how it serves as a biography of the...

Shelley's Frankenstein, Adam Imagery

This essay pertains to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's nineteenth century gothic novel Frankenstein and the allusions that Shelley m...

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

This book review pertains to Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, a novel that describes animal rights abuses in the nineteenth century as ...

Medieval Norms, Politics, Religion Aspects

This paper refers to Penny Schine Gold's The Lady & the Virgin, Image, Attitude and Experience in Twelfth-Century France and Ken F...

Sense and Sensibility/Novel v. Film

mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...

Inward Lives of 2 19th Century Women

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

"a perfect bell, with a perfect pitch" calling worshipers to mass (11). On arriving in Canada, Father Gstir simply changes the loc...

The Theme of Forgiveness in Bronte's Novel, Jane Eyre

to see, more objectively, the struggles of her aunt and the sad state of her aunt, thus giving her the ability to be kind and comp...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

rules. Dr. Jekyll was the perfect example of such a man, a man who did the right things, acted in the correct manner, and never st...

Chinua Achebe's A Man of the People

tactics. There is a great disparity between the haves and the have nots. The health conditions are horrible with no running water ...