Thomas Hardy employs the descriptive mode unusually in his poems, causing his reader to produce a particular impression of a scene rather than passively to accept Hardy's image; like the French Impressionists and their ...

Half of this essay is directed toward revealing what was written in the Elizabethan (here defined by the dates 1564-1636) histories about the Roman emperor, Octavius Caesar Augustus. The purpose of the study of the histories ...

This thesis is a study of the novels of George Moore's final "canon." It covers A Modern Lover (although this novel does not remain in the final "canon," it is Moore's first and as such it rates study), A Mummer's Wife, ...

In The Citizen of the World and in The Traveller Goldsmith exercised conscious techniques and was seriously concerned with the expression of a few major ideas. These two works are closely linked through the versatile ...

Dylan Thomas' obscure sonnet sequence, Altarwise by Owl-light, has "inspired more comment and caused more disagreement than anything else by Thomas." Reading the sequence is like experiencing a confused nightmare or dream ...

In most of Mark Twain's major novels, mistaken identity is the central plot device and satiric device. The main variation is the romantic convention of the disguised aristocrat who undertakes an incognito journey, which ...

Although it bears superficial resemblances to the tradition: of travel literature, Robinson Crusoe in its total form differs greatly from that tradition, and the characteristics which set it apart (particularly the thematic ...