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Kayli Dutton Theresa Traver English 277 8 May 2020 Final Blog Post During this course we read many interesting pieces of British literature that I found influential. Out of these texts, I felt most interested in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”. This is why I would choose a text like this toContinue reading “Final Blog Post”

Kayli Dutton Theresa Traver English 277 24 February 2020 Northanger Abbey Blog Post     In Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey”, no villain is clearly identified. Although, many readers of this novel seem to come to the conclusion that John Thorpe (arguably the novel’s most controversial character), very closely resembles that of a typical literary villain. JohnContinue reading “John Thorpe: The Villain”

Kayli Dutton Theresa Traver English 277 31 January  Blog Post 1     William Wordsworth was one of the leading poets during the Age of Romanticism. During his years as a writer in the 18th century, Wordsworth had an interesting and (at the time), radical outlook for how the literary art of poetry was meant toContinue reading “Wordsworth and the Age of Romanticism”