Utopia: A Socialist Epoch of Rest
Utopia is based on the concept of rest and linked up with dreams. In Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, the character falls asleep for 20 years and wakes…
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Introduction to News From Nowhere
Discover William Morris’s News from Nowhere: utopian literature, socialism, medievalism, Arts and Crafts, and Victorian critiques of industrial society.
A Definition of Utopia in Literature
Define utopia through literature and politics, from ideal societies and social criticism to More, Morris, satire, reform, and imagined futures.
The fictive experience of time through Mrs. Dalloway
The way in which the complexity of time is felt constitutes part of the interest (part of the pleasure) we derive from reading Mrs Dalloway.
Time and Virginia Woolf’s novel technique
xplore time in Virginia Woolf’s novel technique, from inner consciousness and memory to modernist narration, perception, rhythm, and form.
Characters and characterization in The Vicar of Wakefield
Explore characterisation in The Vicar of Wakefield: family bonds, theatricality, comic types, mistaken identities, and Goldsmith’s moral vision.
Structure and Plot in The Vicar of Wakefield
“The Vicar of Wakefield” portrays the rural English life, explores virtue and resilience in the face of adversity, and mocks social and moral issues.
British Civilisation and Literature: 19th and 20th centuries
Survey British literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, from Romanticism and realism to modernism, war writing, empire, and social change.
To what extent is Tristram Shandy a parody?
Explore how Tristram Shandy parodies the novel form through digression, metafiction, comic disruption, and Sterne’s playful narrative freedom.
Is Tristram Shandy a novel or an anti-novel?
Explore whether Tristram Shandy is a novel or anti-novel through digression, parody, metafiction, narrative disorder, and Sterne’s wit.
English Romanticism (1798-1832)
Explore English Romanticism from 1798 to 1832: imagination, nature, revolution, individualism, emotion, poetry, and major Romantic writers.
Family in Death of a Salesman
In an article, Arthur Miller insisted that all “great plays” finally grapple with one central issue: “how may a man make of the outside world a home?”.
Death of a Salesman: Tragedy versus Social Drama
Many critics have debated the tragic dimension in Death of a Salesman: the notion of genre, and the response of mankind to rapid technological advance.
Death of a Salesman: the play’s structure, a memory play
If the external plot of Death of a Salesman may be divided into chronological sequences, the internal plot may not: Willy’s stream of consciousness.
19th Century Literary Movements : Realism and Naturalism
Explore 19th-century realism and naturalism through social observation, heredity, environment, class, detail, determinism, and major writers.
The 18th Century: the Age of Enlightenment
Explore the 18th century as the Age of Enlightenment: reason, satire, progress, science, politics, sensibility, and literary transformation.
Rupert Brooke: idealism, patriotism and the myth of the war poet
Rupert Brooke, English war poet of 1914, became famous for The Soldier, patriotic idealism and the myth of beautiful youth sacrificed in WWI.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream : a comedy
Explore A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a comedy through love, disorder, fairy magic, mistaken identity, theatrical play, and restoration.
Structure in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is remarkable for the many levels of its text: Theseus and Hippolyta, the young lovers, the mechanicals, and the fairies.
Background of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare draws his material from a large body of social background, historical facts and myth: Greek background, May festivities, fairies and spirits.
Introduction to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Discover A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Shakespeare’s comic world of love, illusion, fairies, theatre, transformation, and festive disorder.
Death of a Salesman : an extended introduction
In Death of a Salesman, the spectator is plunged into the main character’s head. There is no linear onward progression but uninterrupted dramatic tension.
An authentically American Literature
Explore the rise of an authentically American literature through national identity, democracy, language, frontier myths, and cultural independence.