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Butler |
Erewhom |
Utopian fantasy England shown as lunatic nation The author ridicules the narrator's desire to convert to Christianity the natives of the country |
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Butler |
The way of all flesh |
Family background & education of ERNEST PONTIFEX Narrow Victorian family values Attempts to stress the significance of social evolution and family influence |
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Ward |
Robert Elsemere |
The hero is an Anglican priest troubled by doubts concerning the German doubts |
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Ward |
Helbeck of Bannisdale |
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Ward 1894 |
Marcella |
Story of an idealistic heroine struggling with the dilemma posed by her love for an uncompromisingly Tory landowner |
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Sinclair |
Mary Olivier |
Shift in literary texts |
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Show |
You can never tell |
Contrast between generations and attitudes |
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Rutherford 1881 |
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford |
Delineates a provincial minister's decliningreligious vocation and his consequent descent into melancholy and alcohol |
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Rutherford 1885 |
Mark Rutherford's deliverance |
Sequel of the autobiographmore positive commitment to the problems of a troubled social fabric in London |
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Rutherford |
The revolution in Tanner's Lane 1887 |
Beyond individual clerical doubt to the broader proletarian world of the articulate artisan and the dissenting tradesman. Discussion of radical political edge of early and mid-19h century |
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Pater |
Studies in the history of the Renaissance 1873 |
triumphant assertion of styleshaped around relative clauses, parentheses, phrases |
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Pater |
Marius the Epicurean |
Historical novel Story of tje slow movement of a pagan roman towards Christian conversion |
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Hardy |
Under the Greenwood Tree |
Christian religion has gone tje way of feudalism |
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Hardy |
Far from the madding crowd |
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Hardy |
Jude the obscure |
1895 character wrenched from his roots ARABELLA DONN ・Crude and exploitative and practical ・Survivor vs the odds SUE BRIDEHEAD combo of fictionality and frigidity Contradictory personality |
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Hardy's women characters |
More determined than male characters |
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Hardy |
Tess of the D'Urbervilles |
TESS DURBEYFIELD "pure woman" (subtitle) Passivity of a fatalist versus her strength of will defying male dominance |
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A modern lover A mummer's wife |
Moore's banned novels |
Irish author |
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Moore |
A drama in Muslin |
@Ireland still dominated by countryhouses of the Anglo-irish ascendancy & by a viceregal court in Dublin Castle French influences Native themes and social issues |
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Moore |
Esther Waters |
Working class heroine, forced out of her home by a drunken stepfather and obliged to work as a servant at a racing stable in Sussex Seduced, made pregnant, abandoned |
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Moore |
Tje book Kerith |
Retelling of the Gospels from the pow of JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA |
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Moore |
Hail and farewell |
Autobiographical comedy TRILOGY which looks at contemporaries in literary worlds of London and Dublin |
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Gissing |
Workers in tje dawn |
Fictional realism Socialist aspirations |
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Gissing |
The unclassed Demos: a story of English socialism |
Fictional realism Empathy w/ the urban poor evoke the miseries and degradation of slum life popular Radicals = self-deceived |
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Gissing |
Private papers of Henry Ryecroft |
Narrator: resentment of a middle-class outsider |
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Gissing |
The odd women |
Story of 3 impoverished sisters who cling desperately to respectability in their shabby-genteel lodgings in London RHODA NUNN かっこいい女 |
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Gissing |
New Grub street |
Protagonist: EDWIN REARDON Women writers share w/ the male protagonist a discouraging awareness of bitterness, waste and exploitation in contemporary literary London romantic idea of isolated suffering artist |