18th & 19th Century British Fiction

When a college student decided to leave school for a year, and take a job in the Idaho-Montana mountains, he didn't know he would come to appreciate a Victorian novel.

Dec 15, 2009 - Teresa Knudsen

Elizabethan poet Sir Philip Sidney uses rhetoric and grammatical innuendo to enforce the validity of Astrophil's advances on Stella in this celebrated sonnet sequence.

Dec 6, 2009 - Michelle White

In the poem "Easter Wings" 17th century poet and Anglican priest George Herbert proposes the subsuming of Jesus' triumph into the self as a way to be purified from sin.

Dec 6, 2009 - Michelle White

19th century sonnet "Bright Star" constitutes a halfway point between Petrarchan and Shakespearean styles of sonnet; this tension is integral to the success of the poem.

Dec 5, 2009 - Michelle White

Romantic sonnets "Bright Star" by John Keats and "Sonnet XXIII" by Charlotte Smith both feature stars as their subjects, but the poems' speakers employ distinct rhetoric.

Dec 4, 2009 - Michelle White

"A Christmas Carol" is best known, but Charles Dickens wrote four other Christmas books and seventeen Christmas stories. Dickens' typical style dominates these.

Dec 4, 2009 - David Todd

Six novels with six different stories and several heroines, but do you remember who's who and what's what?

Nov 25, 2009 - M.L. Costa

Foundling orphan to innocent maid, redeemable soul to darkened villain, Charles Dickens created many memorable characters with individual traits of similar types.

Nov 23, 2009 - M.L. Costa

The Noel Langley adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens' classic novella, for the silver screen is delightful but not completely true to book.

Nov 20, 2009 - Melissa Howard

As Great Expectations Pip strives to become a gentleman, he learns a lot about life and the value and price of money.

Nov 18, 2009 - Lito Apostolakou

Dickens makes Great Expectations Pip suffer with unrequited love, gives Estella a heart of stone and the reader some of the best quotes on love and rejection.

Nov 18, 2009 - Lito Apostolakou

Described as "compactly perfect" and Dickens' "most understated" work, Great Expectations is a story about guilt, desire and moral redemption.

Nov 16, 2009 - Lito Apostolakou

From roast goose and chestnuts to pudding and oranges, Dickens describes Xmas food with relish and affection in A Christmas Carol. His food quotes are good to taste.

Nov 14, 2009 - Lito Apostolakou

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is filled with portraits of common Victorian people trying to get by.

Nov 13, 2009 - Melissa Howard

A look at the main characters in Charles Dickens' novella, A Christmas Carol.

Nov 13, 2009 - Melissa Howard

From "Bah Humbug" to "God Bless Us Everyone" Dickens A Christmas Carol contains some great quotes about Christmas, social injustice, poverty and kindness.

Nov 13, 2009 - Lito Apostolakou

An outline of the details and plot of Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, a story of social justice and of the conversion to good in one human's heart at Christmas time.

Nov 10, 2009 - Melissa Howard

The romantic stories of Jane Austen feature many of the same themes and character types. The charming and deceptive rogue is perhaps the most interesting of these.

Nov 8, 2009 - Laura Briggs

Review of a new critical edition of the nineteenth century vampire serial Varney the Vampire, with an introduction, footnotes and other supplementary material.

Nov 8, 2009 - Amelia Hill

Though Dracula and Lestat are far better known today, modern vampire literature owes a great deal to Polidori's Lord Ruthven.

Oct 29, 2009 - Jenny Ashford

Varney the Vampire is a serial novel published from 1845 to 1847. It introduced many tropes associated with the modern vampire.

Oct 22, 2009 - Amelia Hill

'The Signalman,' 'The Monkey's Paw,' and 'The Red Room' are ghostly tales which are guaranteed to get the goosebumps rising.

Oct 20, 2009 - Tristania Currie

Fear is present in every human's life, to some degree or another, and Jane Austen was skilled at getting to the heart of those fears in her precise character sketches.

Oct 19, 2009 - Pamela Mooman

In this often overlooked novel, Wilkie Collins makes clear his views on marriage and the position of women in Victorian society.

Oct 18, 2009 - Tristania Currie

Depictions of the relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy--as well as Regency-era English society--vary from the deeply romantic to the downright weird.

Oct 11, 2009 - Irene Tanner-Yuen