Rather than review a classic that has been spoken about time and again, I thought I'd share with you a response paper I wrote for my class in Victorian Literature a few weeks ago - let me know if you'd like to see more pieces like this on the blog! In Villette (1853), Charlotte Brontë... Continue Reading →
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens – Book Review
The classics, Dear Reader! They possess a foundational cultural force, are the prism through which we can understand much about a society at a certain point in time, and are often inextricably linked with imperial values (you can find more about this last point in Frank Kermode's book, The Classic, as David Damrosch points out... Continue Reading →