INTRODUCTION In this article we are going to discuss a very important novelist of the Victorian period. Most of you must have read novels like Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and David Copperfield as students in the […][…]
INTRODUCTION In this article, we will study another Victorian novel, Silas Marner by George Elliot. The novel reflects the Victorian age sensibilities of class distinction. We will see that different characters belong to different classes […][…]
INTRODUCTION We will study yet another novel in this unit. It is The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy in which he presents the story of Henchard who auctions his wife in a fair. Thomas […][…]
INTRODUCTION In this article we are going to discuss the modern novel. We have traced the origin and development of the English novel in the preceding modules. We also studied selected novels from different periods in […][…]
INTRODUCTION Lord of the Flies is a very complex allegorical novel that operates on several levels. This is probably one of the reasons for its great popularity and appeal to all tastes and age-groups. The […][…]
INTRODUCTION Sons and Lovers is seen as an autobiographical work in which Paul the hero represents D. H. Lawrence himself. In writing the novel, Lawrence was probably trying to reflect his experiences as a young […][…]
INTRODUCTION In this article, we will study Virginia Wolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, a novel in which she presents characters in a “flux, rather than static and who react to their surroundings in ways that mirrored actual […][…]
Literature is the art which imitates life in words with the twin objectives of entertaining and edifying. There has always been the yet unresolved argument as to whether literature inheres in the matter, subject or object that […][…]