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Mrs. Gaskell's Industrial Novels: Mary Barton And North And South, Yvette D. Marambaud
Mrs. Gaskell's Industrial Novels: Mary Barton And North And South, Yvette D. Marambaud
Master's Theses
Since 1910, when Mrs. Gaskell's centenary was celebrated, few articles have been written about her. Except for her Life of Charlotte Bronte, she is not really well known in America. Few people read her tales or her short stories, and her novels are quite neglected. Yet her industrial novels, Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855), were very successful when they were first published. Mary Barton was an immediate success - perhaps in part because of the controversies it aroused.
The Contributions And Effects Of The Drama On Paradise Lost, Robert Elliott Bayliss
The Contributions And Effects Of The Drama On Paradise Lost, Robert Elliott Bayliss
Master's Theses
Upon reading John Milton's Paradise Lost, one cannot help but notice that its tone, its moving scenes and confrontations, and its moments of psychological and cathartic impact all help to shape what one might call the poem's total effect -- the impressions it leaves with the reader. Upon close examination it becomes obvious that Milton was consummately adept in his adaptation of the dramatic element in his great epic. What is generally unrecognized, yet surprisingly evident, is that the dramatic element plays a unique and singularly important role in building the poem's grandeur. This dramatic element, more than any of …
Images Of Creation And Destruction In The Early Poetry Of Dylan Thomas, Willard Liston Rudd
Images Of Creation And Destruction In The Early Poetry Of Dylan Thomas, Willard Liston Rudd
Master's Theses
The intent of this thesis is to examine the two major categories into which Dylan Thomas' images seem to fall: images associated with creation and images associated with destruction.