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Initially I’d assumed Stevenson’s The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde would not qualify as a work of realism due to the supernatural elements that make Mr. Hyde possible. However, the Broadview explanation of Victorian Realism gives the novel a strong case for consideration in the category of realism. To begin with, storiesContinue reading “The Strange Case for “Jekyll” as Realism”

Wordsworth’s “Lucy Gray” is an excellent example of the type of poetry he spent almost two dozen lengthy paragraphs idealizing in his preface to Lyrical Ballads. The story of a young girl gone missing is derived from “incidents and situations from common life,” actively avoids language that is overly lofty and complex, and pays specialContinue reading “Wordsworth Forever & Lucy Gray”

One of my favorite pieces I read this year was The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge. If I were able to teach a lesson, The Mariner would be my first pick.  I am currently finishing my second year towards an English Education degree. With that degree I hope to someday teach highContinue reading “The Final Blog: The Mariner Story”

In my opinion, one of the more interesting stories that we’ve read this semester is The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. While it wasn’t the only story that caught my attention, it was one that I enjoyed quite a bit more than the others. The strange premise that seemed to almost comeContinue reading “Teaching Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

The Broadview Anthology of British Literature describes Victorian Era Realism as writing that “tended to center on the everyday experiences, moral progress, and inner struggles of an ordinary individual, while giving a sense of the connections between that individual and his or her broader social networks.” (615) As is mentioned on that same page, Realism’sContinue reading “Victorian Era Realism”

1. Choose a social issue and discuss how the treatment of that issue has or has not changed over time in the literature that we have read. Examples could include poverty, war, crime, or discrimination against people based on gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, etc. You are not limited to those examples!              The struggle for equalContinue reading “Final Blog Post”

“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson During this course there were many literaryContinue reading “Teaching Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”

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”

There are a multitude of social issues that have made their way through literature throughout the years. Discrimination, crime, and poverty are a few examples of such issues but the one I want to talk about is war. War is something that will always be talked about through the literature we read and will alwaysContinue reading “War and Its Possible End: The Final Post”

Given the opportunity to teach one text from this semester, I would easily pick “Is Nothing Sacred” (I might have said Austen’s Northanger Abbey if you’d asked me a couple weeks ago, for no reason more complicated than my love of the book). Salmon Rushdie addresses a topic that I think more people should consider,Continue reading “Teaching the Religion of Language”