Literary Blog

Throughout this course, we have read a variety of texts that have explored the realm of what makes a novel. There is little change I...

Among moments of intense drama and Evelina's highs and lows in the second half of the novel are dispersed moments of particulars that are...

After having read of young ladies who follow paths that , to modern readers, may seem destructive, it is with great joy that Evelina...

In my attempt to read Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling, there was one unshakable impression that coursed through my thoughts: this...

The thing that struck me the most in Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela was the self-destructing habits of her main character and Pamela...

After having read Pamela, I was intrigued about how other writers of the time reacted to the story, and how the story that I as a modern...

Pamela's virtue in her tale is said to be rewarded, and certainly in a 18th century view it would seem as such. With a modern...

In listening to an audio-book version of Pamela (which I had to use since I could not get my hands on a written copy), the one...

There are multiple differences between Defoe's A Journal of a Plague Year and Pepys' Diary. Most of these differences come down to one...

Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year" is an early work of historical fiction written in 1722. The text presents the readers with...

In reading the assigned texts for this week, one thing stood out: the odd nature of the crimes that were depicted in The Newgate...

June 3rd, 2018 The fist week in Rome has come to a close, and it has been an intense ride thus far. The others on the trip are...

A novel is a story written in prose, typically longer than 100 pages, that follows a character or a group of characters through a...