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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Social novels"”.
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Public Politics, Private God: Political Rhetoric of Religious Morality in Selected American Social Novels
… I present textual analyses of four American social novels—Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Rebecca Harding Davis' “Life in the Iron Mills,” Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath—employing historical, social, political, and rhetorical …
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Rhetoric of argument in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Mary Barton" and "Ruth"
Gaskell's two social novels, Mary Barton and Ruth, were significant contributors to the nineteenth-century argumentative discourse, and as such, the novels' rhetorical attributes, which include logos, pathos, and ethos, define them as arguments for political and social reform. Since scholarship has …
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uPeter Tshobisa Mtuze neenoveli zakhe
… has been done by a full critical analysis of his novels, to portray the main themes embodied in these works. Chapter one is the introduction. Chapter two is the author's historical background. Chapter 3 analyses the novels that tackle moral issues (UDingezweni and Umsinga). Chapter 4 explores the …
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An index to the first eleven volumes of Ainsworth's magazine, 1842-1847, a Victorian periodical
… romances; sporting, domestic, and social novels; travel books; scientific and pseudoscientific studies; and biographies were among the books with wied appeal, and they were given serious consideration in the magazine. Not only the books reviewed, but the reviews themselves, are an …