A Misconception of the Persona
This blog post is in Catharine Pleyel’s point of view, and whether she really is the ‘perfect’ wife and woman set out by the events from Clara...
Month: February 2020
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...
Literary Terms
Considering our epigraph (vs epilogue vs epitaph) conversation last week, you might quiz your knowledge of literary terms using this site. How many do you recog...
A Linguistic Map of the Canon
Via Ryan Heuser, Digital Humanist at King’s College, Cambridge – a comparison of abstract vs. concrete language in prose fiction from 1550-2019. For...
Guiding Questions
How does religion inform the American novel? How were religious beliefs incorporated in American novels in different periods? In what ways do our novels explore...