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140 E arly to mid-19th-century America witnessed the development of two strands of Romanticism. One, practiced notably by Ralph ...

141 the way for the modern horror story. Since the truths the Dark Romantics sought to reveal were primitive and irrational, the ...

142 conducted by Ahab, the captain of the whaling ship Pequod, as he searches the seas for the gigantic albino sperm whale known ...

143 However, this diverse floating society is far from democratic: social and racial distinctions make for inequality and all on ...

144 undermining of Christian orthodoxy, and of other religions too, is a strand running through the novel. Assembling the crew o ...

145 in fiction, is offset by borrowings from another literary genre: the encyclopedia. As the suspense of the story is ratcheted ...

146 ALL PARTINGS FORESHADOW THE GREAT FINAL ONE BLEAK HOUSE (1852–1853), CHARLES DICKENS R eaders on both sides of the Atlantic ...

147 See also: Oliver Twist 151 ■ The Count of Monte Cristo 152–53 ■ Vanity Fair 153 ■ David Copperfield 153 ■ Madame Bovary 158– ...

148 dispute over an inheritance that has already lasted several decades by the time the novel begins, and which has become “... ...

149 although the haughty coldness of Lady Dedlock hides a dark secret. Miss Flite, who befriends the young wards, is a half-craz ...

RENÉ (1802), FRANCOIS-RENÉ CHATEAUBRIAND The melancholic figure of René, wandering the lands from France to the Americas, findin ...

ROMANTICISM AND THE RISE OF THE NOVEL to his rise into upper-class echelons via affairs with aristocratic women, the book leads ...

Caucasus region of Russia. The author arranged his novel in five parts, portraying the complex nature of a sensitive, emotional, ...

ROMANTICISM AND THE RISE OF THE NOVEL with the author’s own, although places and settings were altered. Characters such as great ...

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B y the mid-19th century, the novel was firmly established as the predominant form of literature, with an unprecedented number o ...

depiction of the humdrum existence of a character like Madame Bovary, Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens showed in graphic detail t ...

BOREDOM UIET AS THE SPIDER WAS SPINNING ITS WEB IN THE MADAME BOVARY (1856), GUSTAVE FLAUBERT SHADOWY PLACES OF HER HEART US_158 ...