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  • Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel
    Jill Franks
    Enormous social changes during the Victorian era inspired some of the finest novels in the English language. In the final decades of the century, rigid application of gender rules and class hierarchies began to relax. Consciousness of the injustice of class- and gender-based discrimination was growing. Meanwhile, bias against nonwhite peoples was worsening. The British used ...
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  • Every Stranger a God
    Jill Franks
    Set in northern England’s Lake District, Dales, and Yorkshire moors, Every Stranger a God is a travel book with a literary twist. A middle-aged English teacher hikes the 192-mile-long Coast to Coast trail, peopling it with characters from books. Literary classics provide leitmotifs for each day of the adventure. When the trip begins, the narrator is as misanthropic as Gulliver....
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  • Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin
    Jill Franks
    The comic archetype of the Little Man--a 'nobody' who stands up to unfairness--is central to the films of Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin. Portraying the alienation of life in an indifferent world with a mix of pathos, irony and slapstick, both adopted absurdist personas--Chaplin’s bumbling yet clever Tramp with his shabby clothes, and Allen’s fool with his metaphysical witti...
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  • British and Irish Women Writers and the Women’s Movement
    Jill Franks
    This study pairs selected Irish and British women novelists of three periods, relating their voices to the women’s movements in their respective nations. In the first wave, nationalist and militant ideologies competed with the suffrage fight in Ireland. Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September illustrates the melancholy of gender performance and confusion of ethnic identity in t...
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  • The Poetry of Thom Gunn
    Stefania Michelucci / Jill Franks
    Thom Gunn served as a mouthpiece for his time, illustrating the social, cultural, and historical transformations that have characterized western civilization from World War II until today. Starting with theoretical premises drawn from philosophy, anthropology, and sociology, this work examines Thom Gunn’s entire poetic career. In Gunn’s early poetry, the author argues, th...
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  • Space and Place in the Works of D.H. Lawrence
    Stefania Michelucci / Jill Franks
    Originally published in Italian as L’orizzonte mobile: spazio e luoghi nella narrativa di D.H. Lawrence in 1998, this critical study analyzes the work of D.H. Lawrence in light of new theories about space and location, or place and community. This approach is especially useful in examining Lawrence, as place and space are central aspects of all of his work. The introductor...
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