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53 Cards in this Set
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
A study in scarlett |
(1859~1930) 1887 series of short stories published from 1891 in the Strand magazine |
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Bram Stroker |
Dracula |
(1847~1912) Dubliner Theatricality + Irish Gothic ( Maturin's Melmoth) Letters+ diaries+ journals+ extracts from newspapers New kind of myth-making, beyon the moral dilemmas Realm of parahuman& mental disturbance |
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Stevenson |
Scottish writer who used small town settings&scots vernacular to reinforce a precise sense of Scottish place Scottish issues looked retrospectively |
(1850~1894) |
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Stevenson 1886 |
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
± Calvinist Gothic (HOGG's "confessions of a justified sinner") @England, debts to Scottish traditions (SCOTT) Agonizingly disparate perceptions & actions |
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Stevenson |
Kidnapped (Ｉ) Catriona (ＩＩ) |
@18th century Scotland, a nation riven by Jacobite divisions etc. Deception, suspicion, injustice, obligatory fight No happy-ending |
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Stevenson |
The Master of Ballantrae: a writer's tale |
Written during the author's self-imposed exile in 南海 Narrated episodically by a FAMILY STEWARD (EPHRAIM MACKELLAR) 2 central characters: politically and emotionally divided 兄弟 After 1745's Jacobite rebellion |
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Stevenson 1883 |
Treasure island |
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Stevenson |
The beach at Falesà The ebb Tide |
Indictments of the malign effects of 18th century colonialism as new variation on PIRACY |
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Kipling |
Author born in Bombay (1865~1936)Apologist for expansion of British Empire |
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Kipling |
The man who would be King |
Story w/intermixture of freemasonry&unsanctioned extensions of PAX BRITANNICA |
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Kipling |
Kim |
1901 Irish colour sergeant's orphan kim is disciple if a Tibetan lama and spy of British secret services in the Great Game (SAHIBSvsRUSSIANS) |
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Conrad |
Author born in Poland, naturalized as British Russian repression victim's son Political fiction |
No division between sea-stories (european colonies) & land-stories (troubled Europe) |
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Conrad |
The secret sharer |
Sea Story Description of ship life (relatively ordered society, prepared to face impersonal hostilities) |
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Conrad 1900 |
Lord Jim |
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Conrad 1898 |
An Outpost of progress |
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Conrad 1899 |
Heart of darkness |
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Conrad 1904 |
Nostromo |
Concerned w/ silver, insurrection and external interference in an unstable South-american Republic ・uncertain heroism ・tottering social order |
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Conrad 1911 |
Under Western eyes |
Dangerous instabilities of society under Russian autocracy Narrator: elderly English teacher of languages in Geneva Student: KIRYLO SIDOROVITCH RAZUMOV Themes: guilt and dislocation |
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Conrad 1907 |
The secret agent |
Central character: VERLOC He's in charge of a terrorist act of blowing up the Greenwich Meridian |
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Wilde |
1854~1900 Dubliner Rejection of mid-victorian values in life&art in the name of aestheticism |
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Wilde 1889 |
The Decaying of Lying |
Platonic dialogue |
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Wilde 1891 |
The Truth of Masks |
Art > imitation of Nature |
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Wilde Essay |
The soul of man under socialism |
Does not argue for a new social ordee but dor a larger idea of freedom, liberation from drudgery & the rule of machines 目的: enjoyment |
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Wilde 1890 |
The picture of Dorian Gray |
Faustian demonstration of the that art and morality are divorced |
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Vera: or, the Nihilist |
Wilde's 1st play |
1880 |
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Wilde's blank verse drama |
The Duchess of Padua |
Never reached the stage |
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Wilde |
A Florentine tragedy |
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Wilde's French tragedy |
Salome |
Written in French, translated by his lover (lord Alfred douglas) Bible account of the death of John the Baptist and in FLAUBERT's story HERODIAS Shocking juxtaposition of repulsion and sexual desire, death, orgasm |
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Wilde's 1895 comedy |
The importance of being Earnest |
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Wilde's 1892 comedy |
Lady Windermere's Fan: a play about a good woman |
It centers on the discovery of a secret Witty speeches of a dandy Feminist bias |
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Wilde's 1893 comedy |
A woman of no importance |
Feminist bias |
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Pinero |
Trelawny of the "Wells" |
The author uses the theatre to speak about the theatre Actors play Actors Drama=central expression of human values |
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Pinero |
The Second Mrs Tangueray |
PAULA TANQUERAY The author questions both received conventions of sexual morality and standard theatrical representation if such conversions |
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Shaw |
Ghosts |
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Shaw |
The quintessence if Ibsenism |
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Shaw |
Widower's houses |
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Shaw |
Mrs Warren's profession |
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1918 |
Vote to over-30 women |
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Wells |
New Machiavelli |
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Bennett |
The old wive's tale |
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Sinclair |
The three sisters |
Parallels the story of the Brontëes |
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Forster |
A passage to India |
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Forster |
Maurice |
Homosexuality |
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Wilde |
The ballad of reading gaol |
Poetry |
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Housman |
A shrosphire lad |
Poetry |
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Mew |
The farmer's bride |
Poetry |
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Hardy |
The Darkling thrush |
Poetry |
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Yeats |
The Celtic twilight |
Poetry |
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Thomas |
The South country |
Poetry |
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Graves |
Goodbye to all that |
Poetry |
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Sassoons |
Memoirs of a fox-hunting man |
Poetry |
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Sassoons |
Memoirs of an Infantry officer |
Poetry |
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Sassoons |
Sherston's progress |
Poetry |
