The works which are a primary focus is Sinclair's The Jungle and Odets's Waiting for Lefty. The concept of class is viewed in terms of how it is portrayed in American literature as well as its relationship with political ideology. Bibliography lists 4 sources. An eight page paper looking at the way Bronte's title character is able to develop a sense of personal autonomy despite the restrictiveness of the class structure of Victorian society. The paper shows how Jane is able to triumph through assertiveness and a strong, distinctly unfeminine will.
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This 10 page report discusses the fact that even though the classical and the romantic traditions of criticism in literature both deal with literature, each views it from entirely different perspectives. In the classical tradition of literature the primary issue is one in which the definition of the work is stated through what has been determined throughout the history of Western literature as the framework in which a literary work appropriately exists. In comparison, the assumption that sensation must surely be preferable to thinking serves as an example of the ways in which the Romantics elevated emotion over reason, and what they perceived to be the true nature of life rather than that constructed by humanity. Bibliography lists 5 sources. A five page analysis of the significance of social class in Wilkie Collins' most famous novel.