Lingue

He wrote only to please himself and not to communicate his theories to his fellow beings, in fact he doesn't believe, on the contrary of the writers of the Enlightenment, in a didactic and moral aim for art. His pursuit of beauty is the tragic act of a superior being, inevitably turned into an outcast. The Wildean man-ideal is the dandy, which is an ar

MARY SHELLEY (1797 - 1851)
Frankenstein written in 1818 is post gothic, in fact there aren't medioeval castles, dungeons, dark lands. Besides ghosts were sopernatural or imaginary projections of a distorted perception, whereas Frankenstein's monster is a creation of science. In classical gothics dark villains enact

VICTORIAN PHILANTROPY
In the victorian period philantrophy became very important. It consisted in helping poor and miserable people with charitable deeds. Later philantropy was no more directed to poor people in an economical way, but to poor people in the moralistic code, such as the dissolute and the “fallen women”. The victorian family

Main features: he wrote in the XX century, so he was influenced by the french naturalism and the decadence. Thus he used in his works new tecniques such as the impersonality of the author, the symbolism, the psycological analysis and the epiphany.
As regard impersonality, Joice abandons the omniscient narrator of the 19th century and the story is t

The theme of the ambivalence is reinforced by the symbolism of Jeckyll's house, whose two façades are symbolically the two opposite sides of the same man: the front of this house, used by the doctor, is fair; while the rear side, used by Hide, is "part of a sinister block of buildings, which showed no windows". Mr Hide is deformed and smaller than Dr

PREFACE TO LYRICAL BALLADS: he defines poetry as the spontaneous overflow feelings and it takes origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity. Role of poet: the poet is a man like other men, but endowed with a higher sensibility, so he is able to recognize the spirit of things. Language: the language should be that spoken by men, even if purified of

Another theme is freedom, in fact he believes, like Rousseau that (" man is born free and everywhere he is in chains") so he exalted the American and the French revolutions. His love for justice and freedom led him to oppose to any type of institution, including church and state, to symphatize with the oppressed classes and even to support the vendicat

Hardy’s wish to represent life in some of its most sombre and cruel aspects in contrast with the Victorian’s readers who represented life as they thought it ought to be.
Most of Hardy’s novels are set in the countryside and show his affection for the vanishing agricultural world in the face of increasing urbanization. A deep pessimism characterises

Stanzas 22 - 32: the poem ends with the supposed death of the author, his burial in the same churchyard and the epitaph on his tomb.
Comment: the neoclassical idealization of poor country life conceals the denunciation of what poverty means in term of hardship and unfulfilment so that the "rude forefathers" come to be seen in the double role of bot

Eventually a ship of mutineers lands on the island. Crusoe rescues its officers and is taken back to England.

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS: the summary
It purports to be a “true” travel account by the ship’s doctor Lemuel Gulliver with a maps of the places visited and full particulars about Gulliver’s family life. It includes realistic details to mak