News from Nowhere: William Morris’s Epoch of Rest
Discover how William Morris turns rest, useful work, pleasure and fellowship into the socialist ideal of News from Nowhere—and where the utopia falters.
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News from Nowhere: William Morris, Context and Key Ideas
Explore William Morris’s News from Nowhere through its socialist context, medievalism, Arts and Crafts ideals, plot, themes and contradictions.
What Is a Utopia? Definition, Origins and Literary Features
What is a literary utopia? Explore its origins, defining features, major examples, political purpose, and complex relationship with dystopian fiction.
The fictive experience of time through Mrs. Dalloway
The way in which the complexity of time is felt constitutes part of the interest (part of the pleasure) we derive from reading Mrs Dalloway.
Time and Virginia Woolf’s novel technique
xplore time in Virginia Woolf’s novel technique, from inner consciousness and memory to modernist narration, perception, rhythm, and form.
Characters and characterization in The Vicar of Wakefield
Explore characterisation in The Vicar of Wakefield: family bonds, theatricality, comic types, mistaken identities, and Goldsmith’s moral vision.
Structure and Plot in The Vicar of Wakefield
“The Vicar of Wakefield” portrays the rural English life, explores virtue and resilience in the face of adversity, and mocks social and moral issues.
British Civilisation and Literature: 19th and 20th centuries
Survey British literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, from Romanticism and realism to modernism, war writing, empire, and social change.
To what extent is Tristram Shandy a parody?
Explore how Tristram Shandy parodies the novel form through digression, metafiction, comic disruption, and Sterne’s playful narrative freedom.
Is Tristram Shandy a novel or an anti-novel?
Explore whether Tristram Shandy is a novel or anti-novel through digression, parody, metafiction, narrative disorder, and Sterne’s wit.
English Romanticism (1798-1832)
Explore English Romanticism from 1798 to 1832 through its historical context, major poets, central ideas, Gothic fiction and literary legacy.
Death of a Salesman: Structure, Memory and Time
Explore the structure of Death of a Salesman, including objective and subjective time, memory scenes, double exposure, music and the Requiem.
19th Century Literary Movements : Realism and Naturalism
Explore 19th-century realism and naturalism through social observation, heredity, environment, class, detail, determinism, and major writers.
The 18th Century: the Age of Enlightenment
Explore the 18th century as the Age of Enlightenment: reason, satire, progress, science, politics, sensibility, and literary transformation.
Rupert Brooke: idealism, patriotism and the myth of the war poet
Rupert Brooke, English war poet of 1914, became famous for The Soldier, patriotic idealism and the myth of beautiful youth sacrificed in WWI.
Why Is A Midsummer Night’s Dream a Comedy?
Discover why A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy through romantic confusion, festive disorder, Bottom’s farce, dramatic irony and its comic ending.
Structure in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Plots and Patterns
Analyse the structure of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through its four dramatic worlds, Athens–forest–Athens movement, parallel plots and play within a play.
Background of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Myth, Folklore and Festivity
Explore the Greek myths, Ovidian sources, English fairies, seasonal customs and Elizabethan theatre behind A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Introduction and Context
Explore A Midsummer Night’s Dream through its date, sources, characters, opening scene, major themes, theatrical form and place in Shakespeare’s work.
An authentically American Literature
Explore the rise of an authentically American literature through national identity, democracy, language, frontier myths, and cultural independence.