Examining what made these cheap, sensational, highly illustrated stories so popular with the Victorian public. By Judith...
Literature
Before conjuring Dracula, Bram Stoker poured his soul out to America’s poet. Introduction Ever since Bram Stoker...
A Christmas Carol isn’t the only spine-chilling Christmas ghost story from the pen of Charles Dickens. Introduction...
Young Goodman Brown is one of the scariest stories in American literature. Halloween is a great time...
The Shelleys, Byron, Polidori, and the birth of a timeless tale. The story of how Frankenstein was...
An appropriate end, or beginning, for a ghost that will live many, many more lives. 1981 The...
In the 19th century, more people were reading more publications than ever before. This explains how technological,...
Exploring the way Victorians bought, borrowed and read their books, and the impact of the popular literature...
Looking nostalgically to the past, a young architect sought to revive the building as a bulwark to...
Helen knows both how to spot an ambush in the making and how to tell a great...
A disheveled poet crafted verse of exquisite order. Thanks to the popular 1994 movie Four Weddings and a Funeral, thousands...
Ellen N. La Motte’s ‘The Backwash of War’ was praised for its clear-eyed portrayal of war, but...
Discussing some of the best-known Gothic novels of the late 18th and 19th centuries and exploring the...
Analyzing how historical, legendary, and mythological elements are woven through the text of Beowulf? Originally published by...
The Peloponnesian war had been dragging on for 25 years, and the military situation was getting progressively...
From public notes and broadsides to catchpennies and printed songs, examining the variety of street literature which...
A scribe would be remembered, not only by family and friends, but by a much larger audience...
In addition to the numerous pioneering works of science fiction by which he made his name, H....
How a 17th-century nun wrote poetry, dramas, and comedies that took on the inequities and double standards...
Without a doubt, the most influential concept in German university history is that of the “unity of...
Jack Kerouac’s study of Buddhism started in earnest in 1953 and is traditionally believed to have ended...
On the author’s bicentennial, American readers could use a dose of his unique ability to fuse realism...
Discussing a young Guy de Maupassant was invited to lunch at the holiday cottage of Algernon Swinburne....
Exploring the importance of his first dramatic work and how in it can be seen the themes...
The pervading strength and influence of Christianity becomes apparent in the abundance of religious poetry created during...
It’s a Wonderful Life prescribed community and empathy as the remedy to a callous economic system. From...
Exploring how novel Oroonoko compares to other representations of race, slavery, and colonialism in the seventeenth and...
Capra’s films are known for being upbeat and sometimes cheesy, but beneath the surface are rather dark...
The publishing history of No-No Boy shows how writers shifted the narrative about internment and draft resistance....
The Aeneid is Virgil’s masterpiece that he completed after eleven years of intensive work. Originally published by...