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Elinor in Year of Wonders
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A 4 page character analysis of Elinor Mompellion in Geraldine Brooks’ novel Year of Wonder. Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
Filename: RAeioyw.rtf

Eliot & Thackeray
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A 3 page essay that discusses how George Eliot in Middlemarch and William M. Thackeray in Vanity Fair craft vivid female characters, who are largely responsible for conveying the themes of the authors in both novels. Becky Sharp and Rosamond Vincy seem cast from the same mold and in both works they convey the disdain of each author for values based on materialism. Likewise, Celia Brooke and Amelia Sedley offer contrasts that underscore the points being made by the authors. No additional sources cited.
Filename: kheandt.rtf

Eliot and Hardy and the Victorian Age
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This 6 page paper discusses "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy and "Middlemarch" by George Eliot; it also discusses Matthew Arnold's idea of a balance between anarchy and culture. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: HVEliHar.rtf

Eliot's "Brother and Sister"
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A seven page paper looking at this poem in terms of its relationship to George Eliot's own life. The paper concludes that "Brother and Sister," which recollects an idyllic period in childhood, also foreshadows a time when the world Eliot embraced so lovingly as a child would turn its back on her. Bibliography lists six sources.
Filename: KBgepoem.wps

Eliot’s “Middlemarch” and de Balzac’s “Eugenie Grandet”
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A 6 page paper which compares the male/female relationships in George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” and Honore de Balzac’s “Eugenie Grandet.” Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
Filename: RAbalgra.rtf

Elizabeth Alexander/Nineteen
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A 4 page explication of Alexander's poem "Nineteen, which captures the essence of her style, which is free flowing and lyrical. Explication of this poem shows that Alexander, like other experts of the free verse style such as Whitman, has the ability to capture the essence and spirit of a time, place and age through the voice of her youthful narrator/protagonist, which expresses the poet's impressions and memories in free verse. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: kh19.rtf

Elizabeth Bowen’s “The Demon Lover”
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This is a 4 page paper discussing the various perspectives of Elizabeth Bowen’s short story “The Demon Lover”. The analysis is preceded by a brief biography of the Bowen. Elizabeth Bowen’s short story “The Demon Lover” is considered one of her most analyzed and controversial works in terms of content and implied intention of the writer. Written during the beginning of World War II, the story is about a woman, Mrs. Kathleen Drover, who returns to her home to pick up some things to take back to her family while they are staying in the country during the bombing. Or is it? Critics of the story have various theories about the actual intent and events which take place in the tale. While some critics view the story purely from a horror perspective in which her former psychotic lover from World War I returns, other critics believe that her journey is one from a psychological perspective while others again argue that the tale was written in an allegorical sense and depicts the horror and terror of war itself. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TJEBowe1.rtf

Elizabeth Gaskell/Mary Barton
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A 5 page essay that examines Gaskell's novel Mary Barton (1848), which was certainly not unique in pointing out the miserable conditions that characterized the life of nineteenth century English working classes. Like Dickens' Oliver Twist and others, Gaskell describes scenes of wretched squalor, but she does so in a manner that makes it clear that the middle-class ideal of domesticity and cleanliness, which was equated in Victorian society with concepts of decency, failed to perceive the realities of working class life. Gaskell's characterization of the industrial working classes negates the popular Victorian perceptions regarding the 'lower' classes and shows not only the details of their lives, but also how those details fit into the context of the lives of her characters. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khgasamb.rtf

Elizabeth Warnock Fernea's 'Guest Of The Sheik'
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A 5 page paper that provides an overview of the elements of gender-based social constructs described in Fernea's story, and demonstrates the differences that Fernea experiences as a westerner in an eastern culture. Bibliography lists no additional sources.
Filename: Sheik.doc

Ellen Weatherall / A Life Well Lived
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A 6 page analysis of the Katherine Anne Porter's class short story 'The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.' In this story, the reader is presented with a brief synopsis of a remarkable life and a fascinating character study in the person of Ellen 'Granny' Weatherall. Granny Weatherall is strong woman, who has hidden her wounded pride behind a tough-as-nails constitution her entire adult life. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Granny2.wps