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If I were given the opportunity to teach about a piece of literature we read in class this semester I would choose Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and teach it in an AP level literature class for high school juniors or seniors. I would choose this particular textContinue reading “Teaching The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is more often than not categorized as a supernatural tale. However, after reading the novella I have come to the conclusion that it is a work of Victorian Realism based on the definition of the genre set forth in The Broadview Anthology ofContinue reading “Victorian Realism: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

After reading Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, I believe that the novel is more likely to encourage its audience to read Gothic fiction rather than discouraging them from doing so. By having a main heroine who enjoys reading Gothic fiction along with how often it comes up in the storyline Austen, even if she didn’t intendContinue reading “Northanger Abbey Blog Post”

After reading both William Wordsworth’s “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “This Lime-tree Bower my Prison” I have come to the conclusion that Coleridge’s poem does reflect the ideals Wordsworth set forth in his essay. This can be deciphered through the fact that the aspects of poetry Wordsworth mentioned in his piece canContinue reading “Blog Post 1: Romanticism”