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In preparing for a classroom of collegiate undergraduates in a Gothic Literature course, lower division, I would put a heavy focus upon this novel during a midway between the classical Gothic Literature and the transition into the 20th century thinking, using it as a segway of ideas. My reason for choosing this goes beyond justContinue reading “Teaching Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

I struggled to see a parallel between the realist art movement, where the art presented a very realist nature about it, and the Victorian literature that came derivationally. Of course, the precise–and perhaps best understanding of it–comes from George Eliot: “all truth and beauty are to be attained by a humble and faithful study ofContinue reading “British Victorian Realism, but more precisely, Science Fiction”

The first thing any modern reader will recognize is the prose. Austen writes like much of her contemporaries, which means long, verbose sentences that weigh heavier in aesthetics than purpose. I’m not saying that this is a bad thing or that it reduces the quality of the novel–it’s just an element of the era–but forContinue reading “Readability”

There are a few elements essential to my analysis; elements which occur in repetition in Preface: nature is likened to the universe and that metrical composition is not a thing important intrinsically, and as such, it imparts on the reader a sense of enjoyment and a purpose suiting something beyond that which prose can offer.Continue reading ““Lucy Gray” is White in the Wind”