San Antonio College Library

A religious interpretation of the poet's life as a recluse, based on her tragic poems.

"Shows how the plays develop, in their various ways, the idea of a conflict between nature and the social structure. The idea has its roots in Shakespearean comedy, to which the book makes continuous reference. It also finds echoes in the tragic metaphysics of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer... The plays together, including those which are sometimes separately categorized as "problem plays", create a great tragic vision which always remains interlinked...

Miss Oates examines the work of such writers as Chekhov, Melville, Yeats, and Toresco in this study.

"In the first half of the nineteenth century, England became quite literally a world on wheels. The sweeping technological changes wrought by the railways, steam-powered factory engines, and progressively more sophisticated wheeled conveyances of all types produced a corresponding revolution in Victorian iconography: the image of the wheel emerged as a dominant symbol of power, modernity, and progress." "Charles Dickens appropriated this symbol and...