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It is a collection of short stories, essays and criticism about the literature of George Eliot. Stories like “The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton†are very remarkable and praiseworthy. As a novelist, essayist, short- story writer, dramatist and poet, George Eliot candidly and often humorously asserted his opinions about the social and political conditions of contemporary England. As a committed writer he expressed his feelings to bring amelioration of ...
Modern American Literature is enriched with novels, poems, plays and stories encompassing fictions, comedy, manners, tragedy, similes, metaphors, idioms, imagery, totems, taboos, rites, rituals, customs, themes, paradigms, genres, allegories etc., that have reached in the present form through long practice and experience of great stalwarts of literature. Through their specific styles and patterns, different literatures have contributed a lot to the American ...
English literature has traversed many stages down from Romanticism to Victorian, Edwardian and modernism. Modernist literature grew out of a great disillusionment with attitudes of certainty, consercatism and objective truth of early periods. Although literary modernism reached its peak during the world wars, the earliest examples appeared in the mid to late nineteenth century. Post-modernist literature arose after World War II as a reaction against the perceived ...