Essays about: "manifest destiny"

Found 1 essay containing the words manifest destiny.

  1. 1. Manifestations of Capitalism from a Marxist Perspective : A comparison of Cultural Values and Moral Codes in Moby Dick and David Copperfield

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Graham Hepworth; [2018]
    Keywords : Marxism; Victorian; antebellum; Romanticism; Realism; feudalism; bourgeois; aristocracy; capitalism; manifest destiny;

    Abstract : This is a study of Charles Dickens David Copperfield and Herman Melville Moby Dick from a Marxist perspective, exploring the different manifestations of the capitalist system, with critical reference to the theories of Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton. It will attempt to understand cultural differences, values and moral codes, that the two novels reveal about Victorian England and Antebellum America, at this point in literary history, the decade of time with 1850 at its centre. READ MORE