Dejection: A Mode
The Romantic subjectivity of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge—and the sharpened skill of their wordsmithing—draw emotions from me, a woman two centuries their junior...
Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals: Female Virtue Rewarded
“Everything in nature works according to laws” (Kant 170). "Innocence is indeed a glorious thing, only, on the other hand, it is very sad that...
Birtherism and the Scholarly Debate over Equiano
How disarming it was in reading the essay "Olaudah Equiano, Written by Himself," to learn that in the 217 years between the time Equiano (self-published)...
Robinson Crusoe: English Narcissus?
“Expanding Empires, Expanding Selves: Colonialism, the Novel, and Robinson Crusoe” by Brett McInelly suggests it will detail the relationship between the expanding notion of the...
Romantic Reading in/at Northanger Abbey
While Henry Tilney instructs the heroine of Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland, to read the world--and histories--and to erect boundaries as real as the walls of an...