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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...

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...

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...

Meet Your New Favourite Editions

Are you ready to fall in love with new editions of your favourite classic reads? If you are not familiar with Broadview Press, here are...

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...

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...

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),...

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...

Western Literary Theory in 500 Words

Don’t let your eyes glaze over! These bullets distill the complex types of literary criticism. Not only have you likely already heard of...

Further Reading: Getting Closer to the Literature you Love!

Welcome to the blog! This area of the website will include all kinds of literary, critical, and reading-adjacent content. Specifically, I...