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160 R omanticism, with its focus on emotion, nature, and the heroic, dominated French literature from the end of the 18th centur ...

161 married to a rather dull doctor in provincial Normandy, in northern France. Influenced by the romantic reading of her youth, ...

162 romanticism with the monotonous reality of everyday life. In particular, Flaubert criticizes the foolishness and dullness of ...

163 Rodolphe Boulanger, Emma’s first lover, recognizes her boredom, her frustrated passion, and her willingness to be seduced, a ...

164 See also: The Last of the Mohicans 150 ■ The Gaucho Martín Fierro 199 I ndianism was a literary and artistic movement in mid ...

165 See also: The Picture of Dorian Gray 194 ■ A Season in Hell 199 ■ The Waste Land 213 ■ The Outsider 245 T he work of the Fre ...

166 NOT BEING HEARD IS NO REASON FOR SILENCE LES MISÉRABLES (1862), VICTOR HUGO A n immense novel, Les Misérables is comprised o ...

167 See also: Bleak House 14 6 – 49 ■ Oliver Twist 151 ■ Uncle Tom’s Cabin 153 ■ War and Peace 178–81 ■ Germinal 190 –91 DEPICTI ...

168 CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER! ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), LEWIS CARROLL T he concept of “childhood” was really only ...

169 See also: Robinson Crusoe 94–95 ■ Gulliver’s Travels 104 ■ Children’s and Household Tales 116 –17 ■ Fairy Tales 151 ■ Little ...

170 strange happenings, and strange linguistic logic. This is the focus of the book and its principal theme. Part of the book’s ...

171 Queen that her perverse sense of justice is “Stuff and nonsense!” Her final act, by which time she is child sized again, is ...

PAIN AND SUFFERING ARE ALWAYS INEVITABLE FOR A LARGE INTELLIGENCE AND A DEEP HEART CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (1866), FYODOR DOSTOYEVS ...

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174 P sychological realism is the depiction in literature of the personality traits and innermost feelings of a character, shini ...

175 It is precisely this opening up of the protagonist’s mind to the reader that secured the book’s status as one of the most im ...

176 Raskolnikov finally returns to his own hovel where he broods all the following day. Dostoyevsky paints a desperate picture o ...

177 Petrovitch, a detective who becomes increasingly convinced that Raskolnikov is guilty of the crime, but lacks the evidence t ...

178 TO DESCRIBE DIRECTLY THE LIFE OF HUMANITY OR EVEN OF A SINGLE NATION APPEARS IMPOSSIBLE WAR AND PEACE (1869), LEO TOLSTOY R ...