Abstract Margaret Mitchell, an American modern writer. In her whole life, Gone with the Wind is her only novel. Although Gone with the Wind is very successful, the literary status is not high. In fact, Gone with the Wind which contains di...

Abstract The subject of time is the core subject of modern literature. As a typical modernist, Fitzgerald shows great interest in the subject of time in his representative work The Great Gatsby. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgeralds thinking o...

Abstract Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) is the most famous poetess in the history of the American literature and the pioneer of Britain and Americas modernist poems. Although Dickinson lived her life alone and away from people, this preemine...

Abstract Ernest Miller Hemingway is one of the most prominent American novelists and short story writers in the 20th century. His stories are famous for their profound themes, rich content and concise writing style. The Snows of Kilimanja...

Abstract Edgar Allan Poe, the father of American horror stories, is a famous American short story writer and literary critic. Most of his short stories deal with death and horror, and thus have a kind of Gothic flavor. The Black Cat, one...

Abstract Kenneth Grahame(8 March 1859 6 July 1932) is born in Edinburgh, Britain. His The Wind in the Willows is a nostalgic novel which filled with fantastic colors. The author wants to show his yearning for the fading natural pastoral l...

Abstract Hamlet, one of the four great tragedies written by William Shakespeare, is the most celebrated tragic drama. It reveals the dark social reality of Elizabeth times. The thesis tries, from the three perspectives of Hamlet's humanis...

Abstract Amy Tan, known as one of the most prominent Chinese American writers, has made a significant impact on the Chinese American literature. Her first novel The Joy Luck Club aroused extensive attention and favorable comments from Ame...

Abstract Nathaniel Hawthorne has always been regarded as a master of symbolism. In many of his works, Hawthorne creatively employs symbolism to present themes, among which, The Birthmark is a typical one. With a brief introduction to the...

Abstract Hawthorne is considered as one of the most important American novelists. Deeply influenced by Puritanism, Hawthorne devotes himself in exploring moral and the evil issues through most of his novels. The thesis aims to find out Ha...

Abstract Daisy Miller, a novel mainly about the conflict between American and European culture, is a masterpiece of the famous American novelist Henry James. This paper begins with a brief introduction to the author and this novel, then m...

Abstract The Catcher in the Rye is not only a representative of the Beat Generation, but also a masterpiece about the teenagers growing pains. This thesis tries to explore into Holdens tragedy from the aspects of his rebellion, and his re...

Abstract In On the Road, Jack Kerouac expressed the profound concern of Sals complex and pain. This paper intends to analyze Sal Paradise, the incomplete rebel in On the Road, who is eager to join the Beat Generation without complete aban...

Abstract Ernest Hemingway is a famous American novelist, who has created lots of strong-willed characters in his works. But in his short story Cat in the Rain, he broke the limitation of males angle and described the heroines female consc...

Abstract This paper is a comparative study of Gothic features adopted by Emily Bronte and William Faulkner in the great novels Wuthering Heights and A Rose for Emily. From this study, we can better understand the style of Gothic novels an...

Abstract Tess of the dUrbervilles and Jennie Gerhardt, written by Thomas Hardy and Theodore Dreiser respectively, are two novels depicting tragic stories of their female protagonists ── Tess and Jennie. Many similar causes contribute...

Abstract Thomas Hardy is the last excellent critical realist writer in the 19th century. He focused on the poor mans fate and revealed the evil of society. Tess, a daughter of a poor villager who discovered that he was the descendent of a...

Abstract Written by Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie narrates the story of a girl called Carrie, with her pursuit of American Dream as the plotline. According to Dreisers description, Carrie's pursuit of American Dream is motivated by many...

Abstract Since its first publication in 1899, A Message to Garcia, evaluated to be the sixth best-selling book in the world, has found favor in readers eyes. This seemingly insignificant work, about a soldier named Rowan in the U.S. Army,...

Abstract Arthur Miller is considered as one of the most distinguished contemporary American playwrights. His plays explore themes of individual and social commitment, familial relationships, and moral obligation. Death of a Salesman in 19...

Abstract In 1962, Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his realistic and imaginative writings. Frequently, Steinbeck used his fiction to pay much attention to the lives of the lower class. Just as many intellectuals in 1930s,...

Abstract Amy Tan, one of distinguished Chinese American female writers, has published a lot of excellent works so far, among which The Joy Luck Club published in 1989 receives the greatest success and wins affirm from professionals and ma...

Abstract F. S. Fitzgerald is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest novelists in 1920s in American literature. The Great Gatsby is one of Fitzgeralds most famous works. Since its publication in 1925, it has been a focus for critica...

Abstract F Scott Fitzgerald, one of the greatest American writers in the 20th century, was a representative of the Lost Generation. His novels vividly reflected the destruction of the American Dream in the 1920s and demonstrated the waste...

Abstract Jack London, a modern and productive writer in America, is one of the most famous novelists in late 19th and early 20th. In his life, he wrote many novels, among which Martin Eden, was one of the perspective woks. From the bottom...

Abstract William Makepeace Thackeray is a major representative novelist of critical realism in the 19th-century England. Vanity Fair has been considered as his masterpiece. It vividly emerges the society of London in the Victorian Age thr...

Abstract Charles Dickens is one of the most prominent British novelists in the nineteenth century. Oliver Twist is his first social criticism novel, exposing the terrible violence hidden in Londons narrow, dirty and remote streets. But th...

Abstract Jack London is a great writer in the American literature history at the beginning of the 20th century. In the whole of his works, The Call of the Wild is known as a landmark of London and this work wins him worldwide reputation....

Abstract F. Scott. Fitzgerald, as the spokesman of the Jazz Age, is a famous American novelists from the 1920s to 1930s．His novel, The Great Gatsby has aroused great interest of study both at home and abroad. We can find various Bible a...

Abstract Jane Austen is one of the greatest representatives of English realistic female novelists in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The consideration about womens merit can be found in her works, which is the most distinguished fe...