Literary Cocktail: A Christmas Carol's Smoking Bishop
“A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you, for many a year! I’ll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your...
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Marisa
- Oct 30, 2020
The Gothic Bluebook: Terrifying the Masses
While reading Franz J. Potter’s book The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835 Exhuming the Trade (2005), I recently stumbled upon the...
Marisa
- Oct 24, 2020
It's Alive! Literary Cocktail: Corpse Reviver No. 2
When I came across this classic cocktail I knew it would be a perfect fit for spooky season! As we approach Halloween our reading habits...
Marisa
- Oct 22, 2020
Review of the Netflix Adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 'Rebecca'
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again” (1). Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier has one of the most iconic opening lines in literature,...
Marisa
- Oct 16, 2020
Mary Shelley’s “hideous progeny”: Authorial Intent of 'Frankenstein'
Battle of the Editions: 1818 vs. 1831 Many are aware of the myth of how Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) came about: one stormy summer...
Marisa
- Oct 15, 2020
Tracing the Vampiric Roots of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'
When we think of the vampire of popular culture, we tend to conjure images of aristocrats, seducers, wanderers. Even the sparkling...
Marisa
- Oct 8, 2020
A Feminist Legacy: Looking at the Lives and Sorrows of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Charlotte Gordon’s biography Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley is an excellently...
Marisa
- Oct 6, 2020
Exploring the Tradition of the English Gothic Novel
Horace Walpole (Castle of Otranto, 1764) and Ann Radcliff (Mysteries of Udolpho,1794) are generally considered the mother and father of...
Marisa
- Sep 24, 2020
Literary Cocktail: "The Woman in White"
As the weather has gotten colder I, like many readers, have been getting cozy under blankets and picking up every Gothic, spooky, horror...
Marisa
- Sep 14, 2020
Jane Austen’s “Spicy Allusions”
“...‘unbecoming conjunction’, a term Austen uses to describe what happens when two ideas or images or people, set side by side, reveal...
Marisa
- Sep 7, 2020
Jane Austen: Romance Authoress or Social Radical?
Readers around the world love her works, but how well do we really know Jane Austen? In her book Jane Austen The Secret Radical (2016),...
Marisa
- Sep 2, 2020
Distance Learning During Covid-19: Teaching Classic Literature to your Teen
Back to school this year looks a lot different for many students with parents having to step into roles traditionally filled by their...