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...
Month: February 2020
“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...
Memoirs of Clara Wieland
The following post includes fictional excerpts of Clara’s secret notebook. This is an attempt to understand Clara’s relationship to writing as well as her conne...
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...
Other forms of transformation in Weiland
As the title on the novel entails , transformation and constant change are big themes that appear in the novel. This transformation is evident in one of the mai...
Change in Readings
Please note a change to the reading schedule for Wednesday, 19 February. Instead of the Waterman reading, we will be reading excerpts from critic Shirley Samuel...
Temple Dreaming
Apropos to our reading… How do you imagine the temple? (The original description is on p12.)