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José Ruiz Mas, University of Granada, Spain Download PDF Version Abstract In this article I endeavour to analyse the image of relevant Spanish historical figures such as King Pedro I, Catherine of Aragon, Christopher Columbus, Philip II, the Spanish Armada and other...
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Maria-Ana Tupan , University of Bucharest, Romania Download PDF Version Abstract The detective as a literary character was co-fathered within a brief interval from each other by Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens, but Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin , who appears in...
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Stacey Balkan, Bergen Community College, New Jersey Download PDF Version Abstract There is perhaps no novel that offers a more scathing commentary on nineteenth century conceptions of leisure and industry than Charles Dickens’ Hard Times. Dickens’ description of...
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Manjeet Rathee, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak Download PDF Version Hard Times, published in 1854, at the time of the initial ‘textile phase’ of the England’s Industrial revolution, is a powerful indictment of the inherent exploitative and repressive character...
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Ralla Guha Niyogi, Basanti Devi College, Kolkata Download PDF Version Abstract One of the literary devices often used in a creative work is the metaphor. In my paper, I aim to analyze the reasons why a novel uses metaphors at all, the importance of the reader’s...
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Soumya Chakraborty, Jadavpur University Download PDF Version Abstract Quite overshadowed by Dickens the social reformer and Victorian England’s most popular and prolific author, lay Dickens a man fascinated with the occult and the supernatural, a practitioner of...
