In Michael Levenson’s essay, Living History in “The Dead”, he forms a critical analysis of James Joyce’s The Dead in which Joyce is said to have written with a New Historicist approach. Levinson argues that, “At the center of Joyce’s fiction is…
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The concept of Lily’s defiance through submission — of Lily rebelling against the system of exchange by simply adhering to its rules — is worth paying close attention to in Dimock’s essay. Dimock constructs an argument in which Lily is a…
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The archival piece that I worked with is a letter from Sarah Orne Jewett to an autograph collector. In this letter, Jewett quite candidly expresses her annoyance with autograph collectors. She begins the letter, “Dear sir, I suppose that you mean…
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In reading The House of Mirth, we get the sense that Lily is as much a victim of high society as she is a member of it. It seems that she is bound to the cycle of judgement and pretense that…
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In Patrick Brantlinger’s essay, Heart of Darkness: Anti-Imperialism, Racism, or Impressionism, Brantlinger discusses a reading of Heart of Darkness where Joseph Conrad deliberately contradicts himself throughout the novel. Brantlinger argues that Conrad’s anti-imperialism comes into conflict with his racist attitudes and his…
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The three articles I found were: “Under the Hood of Tess: Conflicting Reproductive Strategies in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles” by Vladimir Tumanov “Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891)” by Brigid Lowe and “Post-Colonial Analysis of Joseph Conrad’s…
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When Kurtz attempts to escape the steamship by crawling back into the forest in part III of Heart of Darkness, he does so, Marlow believes, because of a spell of the wilderness. This spell, Marlow narrates, “seemed to draw him ……
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The aim of Zacharias’ essay Fantasy and Confession seems to be to apply various psychoanalytic frameworks, in order to build an understanding of the unconscious inner-workings of the Governess within her confession. In other words, Zacharias is attempting to use established…
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The goal of Ellen Rooney’s essay, Tess and the Subject of Sexual Violence: Reading, Rape, Seduction, seems to be to analyze the language that Hardy presents in describing Tess and her feelings, in order to better understand the context for Hardy’s declaration of Tess’s…
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Tess’s identity in Tess of the D’Urbervilles is one that is constructed largely by the expectations of her surroundings. While many parts of the novel may be understood in terms of Tess negotiating aspects of her identity at times of internal struggle, another…
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