White Is the New Black
“…to get material to turn into shekels. More, to gaze on these great and near great while they gaze on the Negroes.” One of the best things about Nella La...
Category: Contexts
The Curse of Ham: How Slavery was Justified in the U.S.
Slavery as a practice can be found in almost every society throughout history. It has been well-documented that Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all kept...
The Rhinelander Case or “Rhinelander v. Rhinelander”
Clare and Jack in Passing compared to the Rhinelander Case. The influence in Passing’s two characters, Clare and Jack fall under a famous trial in 1925 kn...
The Harlem Renaissance Period: How Did It Start?
Historical context is an important aspect to consider in literature; its presence gives the reader a better understanding of and deeper appreciation for the wor...
“Girls Like You”- The Flappers of the 1920s
As we enter the 2020s, we are inadvertently reminded of the “Roaring 20s”- a decade preceding us by exactly a century that was an era of significant economic an...
How Do You Know?
At its core, Wieland is an epistemological investigation that examines how we know the world. The novel was written about a century and a half after René Descar...
The Phenomena of Family-Killing Fatherhood
Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland; or, The Transformation: An American Tale (1798) was exclusively based on a real notoriously, gruesome crime- the rep...
What is Psychopathy?
What is Psychopathy? Psychopathy involves affective personality styles (Jurjako par. 1). It typically is seen as a mental disorder. People suffering from it -ps...
Was it Human Combustion? Perspectives on Wieland
An event that could be considered as a central and driving force to the unravelling of peculiar events in Brown’s Wieland, is the father’s spontaneo...