Object of the Study

B. Approach of the Study

Sociocultural-historical approach is applicable to analyze this work because to analyze the author’s views toward 19 th century British in the novel, one must have good understanding about the society at that time. Sociocultural-historical background is suitable in analyzing this novel because this study investigates the civilization, Rohrberger and Woods states that: They [literature] define civilization as the attitudes and actions of specific group of people and point out that literature takes this attitudes and actions as its subject matter . They feel therefore; that it’ necessary that the critic investigate the social milieu in which a work created and which if necessary reflects. 1971: 9. Literature also preserved the most picturesque and expressive representation of manners; primarily literature is about a treasure of customs, costumes, and a history civilization source book Wellek and Warren, 1956: 102- 103 Society will also influence the author in making the literary works, as what Rohrberger and Woods states in their book: Critics whose major interest is the socio-cultural historical-insist that the only way to locate the real work is in reference to the civilizations of a specific group people and point out that literature takes this attitudes and actions of that produced it 1971: 9.

C. Method of the Study

The writer use library research to collecting the data related to the object and the topic of the study. Library research means that the writer took all the data from books and internet. The primary source is Eloisa James’ A Kiss at Midnight. The secondary sources are book by Abrams, titled A Glossary of Literary Term, M.J Murphy’s book Understanding Unseen, the book by Guth, The Literary Heritage , A Handbook to Literature by Holman and Harmon, An Introduction to Fiction by Stanton, Theory of Lierature by Wellek and Warren, Reading and Writing about Literature by Rohrberger, and also a book written by J.S Bentwich, A.S.Mendilow, and J. Catford titled How the English Life, The book by Jeremy Black, A New History of England, Sir George Clark ’s book, English History. Book by Dartford, The Growth of the British Commenwealth, Gregg ’s book, A Social and Economic History of Britain 1760-195, Industrialization in Nineteenth Century Europe by Kemp, Langland ’s book entitled Society in the Novel , Henry Littlefield ’s book History of Europe since 1815. 19th ed. Lunt’s book entitled History of England, the book by Travelyan, English Social History. The book by Van de Laar, E and Schooderwood, N., An Approach to English Literature , the last the writer employed a source from journal entitled; The New Encyclopedia Britannica . There were some steps that writer taken to get the solutions to the problem formulation. First, the writer read and reread the novel, A Kiss at Midnight, so that the novel could be understood well. Second, after the writer understood the story, the writer wrote the topic to discuss. In this study the topic was Eloisa James’ views towards British social condition in the 19 th century as reflected in A Kiss At Midnight. Then, the writer made some questions that stated in the problem formulation. The third step, the writer looked for certain theories and approach related to the topic. The theories that the writer used are the theory of character and characterization, theory of setting, theory on society in the novel, and the relation between literature and society. Approach that used in this study is sociocultural-historical approach. The next step, the writer applied the theories and sociocultural-historical approach to answered the problem formulation. Finally, the writer was making the conclusion of this study.