A Tale of Two Cities as a Historical Novel A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel related to the period before and all through the French Revolution . In the French Revolution Dickens found a subject commendable of his broadest vision to ponder upon; a great nation ripening its own annihilation – literally Fran…

Walter Scott's Kenilworth as a Historical Novel Scott's conception of historical novel is different from the common and traditional concept of history. Generally speaking, a historical novelist enlivens the great historical episodes in his novel but Scott is not so much interested in historical epis…

“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”                                                                     ―  Toni Morrison,  Jazz Here are few short questions and answers from Jazz that might help you: 1.What is the symbolic significance …

The fictional representation of the American city African American literature is often characterized by a stark manifestation of its hierarchical colour division. Interestingly, African American novels are replete with images of post-bellum migration to the city and the ghettozation of the “nigger.” Toni Morri…

The novel borrows its title from Jazz music and the idea of music is discussed throughout the novel. As the name of the novel implies music operates both thematically and formally to provide structure to the book. The Jazz music of the 1920s situates the narrative in a specific cultural and historical moment, …

In Jazz Violet Traces is the central character through which Morrison describes the woes of the black women. Violet is a fifty six year old woman living in Harlem with her husband Joe. Hopelessly scrawny with very dark skin, Violet is beautiful if one looks at her long enough. She has a reputation in Harlem fo…

Jazz is a historical novel by Pultizer and Nobel Prize winning American author, Toni Morrison. The novel forms the second part of Morrison’s Dantesque trilogy on Africa American history, beginning with Beloved and ending with paradise. Morrison is a modern novelist and in this novel she has presented a hoard o…