DickensAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard The work of Dickens is at once politically radical and warmly domestic. Nineteenth-century Britain was rich in popular literature, much of which […]
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Student Essay: Without and Within By Brodie Crowder Sawyer and Finn present not only two distinct characters, but two whole modes of constructing narrative. Conflict is perhaps the
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MontaigneAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown Belief and skepticism strike us as opposites, but paradox is a familiar element in belief. As we know, the sixteenth century was
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Student Essay: Superstition and Religion in Huckleberry Finn By Catherine Gath Twain’s portrait of what religion and superstition are to Finn indicate a subtle relationship between the two.
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FitzgeraldAn Author Profile By Matt McKeown Fun and unhappiness blend in a peculiar manner in Fitzgerald’s work. Though he died abruptly of a heart attack at only 44
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Student Essay: Victorian Womanhood in Britain and Brazil By Erika Kyba We sometimes think of nineteenth-century femininity as a monolith, but this is false to both life and
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CatherAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard Few authors achieve the distinctive transparency of Cather’s work. ❧ Full name: Willa (née Wilella) Sibert Cather [wĭł-à, wĭ-lĕł-à sē-bŕt kăð-ŕ; see
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Student Essay: Beowulf and Ecclesiastes By Caleb Dummermuth The Old English epic and the biblical book share the same lament and the same hope. Ecclesiastes is a sobering
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SteinbeckAn Author Profile By Gabriel Blanchard The moral and atmospheric power of Steinbeck’s writing has justly won him an enduring place in the American canon. ❧ Full name
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Student Essay: Mark Antony in Julius Caesar By Julia Dudek Beside the principal tragedy of the play, there is a quiet moral tragedy in Antony’s arc. From the
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