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Item Conflict between traditional and modernity in Henry James: The Wings of the Dove(Department of English, 2016) Pant, Pushpa RajThis research focuses on Henry James' The Wings of the Dove to examine the fragmentation of twentieth century’s European society due to emerging liberal attitudes. Morality and liberal modern ways of life. Merton is unable to get Kate's hand because of his poor economic condition. How the modern society was going fading due to the world war. Modernist view was given in this novel. Nineteenth century Victorian period is considered to be the most remarkable period in the history of England. In this period, England was developed by modern science and technology and it was fully industrialized and commercialized. It was floating on materialism and liberalism. It was also an age of intellectual developments. Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and John Stuart Mill are the representatives of this period. There followed democratic reformation, educational expansion and technical progress. These things brought a radical change in the thinking of modern man. People began to question the earlier accepted social mores as the new era helped them to make life much better.Item Fall of Jewish Culture in Singer's Satan in Goray(2006) Chapagain, KhumakantaSinger's first novelSatan in Goray(1933) is a portrayal of failed messianism resulting in the dreadful fall of Jewish culture in the Eastern Europe. The novel is set in Poland in the wake of the Chmelnicki massacres of the 1640s, a dark period in Polish Jewish history in which tens of thousands of Jews were murdered and whole town was wiped out. Out of despair of that calamity grew faith in a false messiah, Sabbatai Zevi. Singer's novel chronicles the way that messianic fervour grips and destroys a single town as well as its culture. The novel is an epic description of Jewish cultural collapse in the east European society. It is about the release of the repressed forces breaking loose in a rupturing Jewish world, an account of self destructive sexual revolt against repressive religious culture. Moreover,Satan in Gorayis a depiction of communal hysteria, anarchy, seduction and victimization of women, Rephele and of the community Goray in the grips of messiahnic arrival. It can be characterised as a cultural parable of the decaying world drawing the analogy between Jewish common destinies of early 20 century and the predicament of Polish Jews in the 17 th century. th