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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Although Muriel Spark published a collection of poems as long ago as 1952, her career as a novelist began with The Comforters. Since then she has published 17 other novels as well as short stories, further poems, a play,...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Israel Zangwill was a Jew in England. As such, he attempted, in great measure successfully, to integrate in his life and works the best of both civilizations, projecting them later to his people and all mankind. This he...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Published anonymously before its author was 21, Frankenstein shocked some reviewers but was well received by readers. The book remains popular but is now less familiar than numerous film adaptations, many of which reduce...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)P.G. Wodehouse was born to write, and he wrote for 80 years. Fame, fortune, or old age made no difference. He wrote on for ``the pleasure of turning out the stuff,'' and because nature told him to do so. Extremely...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)The world that Charlotte Yonge describes is one that was small and rarified even in her time; she shows us a Tory squirearchy served by a loyal, dutiful, and unambitious tenantry; an upper middle class of unimpeachable...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Redgauntlet is one of the most important works of Sir Walter Scott's later career. In it, he returns to a subject raised in Waverley, his first novel: the Jacobite uprisings of the 18th century. Unlike the 1745 rebellion...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 176. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS: Matthew ArnoldCulture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism (essay) 1869Elia BenamozeghMorale juive et morale chrétienne: examen comparatif suivi de quelques réflexions sur les...
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From: Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies[(essay date 1927) In the following essay, Slover argues that William brought elements of Irish literature, which are the basis of Arthurian romance, into several of his works.] In the imaginative literature of...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 112. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS: Charles Follen AdamsLeedle Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems (poetry) 1878 Lucia True AmesMemoirs of a Millionaire (novel) 1889 Dion BoucicaultThe Poor of New York (play) 1857 John BroughamThe...
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From: Studies in Romanticism[In the following essay, Bentman contends that Burns's poetry is a significant part of British literary history, despite his declining popularity in recent decades.] Robert Burns's poetry is all but ignored in current...
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From: Ball State University Forum[(essay date autumn 1971) In the following essay, Zavarzadeh focuses on the Angry Young Men's brand of anti-intellectualism, concluding that they adopted working-class attitudes metaphorically rather than embodying them...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Robert Louis Stevenson was, in the best sense of that 19th-century term, a man of letters. Unlike most of their kind, however, he achieved high distinction as a novelist, as an essayist, and as a poetic miniaturist....
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)What may be the central virtue of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the of the Rings had its origin in accident, but in an accident corresponding so closely to his life's direction as to seem inevitable. It is the sense of a...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771. His father, who is affectionately satirized as Saunders Fairford, the ``good old-fashioned man of method'' in Redgauntlet, was a respected solicitor. His mother, the...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Labels like ``novelist'' and ``novel'' are at best problematic, and at worst dangerous, when applied to the writers and fictions of the 18th century. Not only did these words have different meanings than they do today,...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersIn Colin Dexter's novels, death is the last unexplained phenomenon in the 20th century. Colin Dexter's Chief Inspector Morse is a man who solves cases on unnatural death. The character of Morse draws the reader into the...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Thomas Warton was one of the most celebrated figures of 18th-century Oxford. His versatility and resourcefulness as a minor poet are evident in his popular Pleasures of Melancholy and his defence of Oxford in The Triumph...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Charles Williams has perhaps the best claim to be described as the Blake of the 20th century. Their imaginations were similar, and both were men uneasy with the literary modes available to them; both were slighted by...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Rarely does the title of a short story become proverbial in common speech. Yet when Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published, its impact was so great that phrases such as ``a Jekyll...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)To the Lighthouse is generally considered to be Virginia Woolf's most accomplished work. It is certainly her most popular one. It was this novel, together with Mrs. Dalloway and The Waves, that established her reputation...