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            If I were given the opportunity to teach one of the pieces, we have read this semester I would teach Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Speckled Band.” I would teach this story at a college level. I would choose this particular text because Sherlock Holms’ adventures are intellectual, interesting and fun.Continue reading “Teaching Sherlock Holms”

Victorian realism, according to are text is defined as a story that focuses on the everyday experiences, and moral and inner struggles of a mundane person, while also giving the reader a means of connecting to the mundane person and their social network (Broadview 615). Many novels and short stories fall into the category ofContinue reading “The Adventure of the Speckled Band-Victorian Realism or Not?”

            Jane Austen’s novel, “Northanger Abbey” is a comedic gothic novel and a coming of age story. The novel focuses mostly on Catherine Morland and her integration into high society. Catherine is referred by the narrator as the heroine of the story. This is because the traditional gothic novels usually tell the story of aContinue reading “Who’s the Villain of Northanger Abbey?”

In the “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” Wordsworth defines poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” Wordsworth goes on to talk about what he believes the characteristics are that makeup a poet, what the “principle object” is, and how poets should abandon poetic diction and write in the language of the “common man.” However, do allContinue reading ““This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” Vs Wordsworth’s Idea of Poetry”