In his memoir titled A Moveable Feast (1964), Ernest Hemingway recounts how writer Gertrude Stein first heard the term “génération...

1. Aware of her growing popularity, Austen had anxiety over how Emma would be received by the reading public, writing: “My great anxiety...

"As guests walk up the long pebble driveway to the house, a line of French waiters in black Napoleon-collared jackets welcome us with...

What is a literary salon? Literary salons have their origins in the Renaissance idea of gathering for debate in the courts of Italy and...

With three literary geniuses in the family—Charlotte, Emily, and Anne—the Brontës certainly secured themselves a (rightful) place in the...

Traditionally Canadian Literature, or CanLit, has highlighted voices of European settlers, been divided along English versus French...

I finally had the time to sit down and watch the 2020 movie Shirley (currently on Amazon Prime), based on a novel of the same name by...

On this day in 1816, Charlotte Brontë was born! So, it is only fitting that I recently completed my reading of the first novel she ever...

I recently wrote a post about What Makes a Literary Classic in which I was thinking about what we culturally consider a ‘classic’ and how...

Not Just Jane: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature (2016) by Shelley DeWees is a delightful...

How do you review a book that is 300 years old? The grammar, punctuation, and narrative structure are not like anything we see in today's...

Not typical classroom vocabulary, but a historical lesson nonetheless! That oft used F word can be a noun, an adjective, a verb, an...

"Bildungsroman" is a German word meaning novel of education or formation. The term has become a literary category for written works whose...

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843) continues to be read, watched and performed after more than 175 years, and is enjoyed by all...

You may be familiar with his words, but do you know the man who wrote ‘In Flanders Fields’? John McCrae was a Canadian military surgeon...

When diving into literary criticism, I always encourage people to start with reader-response theory because it is something most people...

While reading Franz J. Potter’s book The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835 Exhuming the Trade (2005), I recently stumbled upon the...

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...

When we think of the vampire of popular culture, we tend to conjure images of aristocrats, seducers, wanderers. Even the sparkling...

Horace Walpole (Castle of Otranto, 1764) and Ann Radcliff (Mysteries of Udolpho,1794) are generally considered the mother and father of...