Hey friends, I figured I'd post my final project/ unessay here, too! I made my first Twine! It's barely a Twine, but I hyperlinked some poems I wrote by drawing on words/ ideas from Auden's poem! Here's the Twine (trigger warning for self harm, though--stay safe friends): https://sites.google.com/view/museedes/home - Jess
Author: jlchretien
A Post Trying that is Trying to Focus on the Victorian Era, but is Really Just My Musings on Genre and a Promo for Virginia Woolf/ Modernism
Hi, hello, I'm having a hard time trying to get myself to care as much about the Victorian pieces we read! Honestly, it feels like we hardly even spent any time with the Victorians (I think Kristin said this somewhere too)? I think it's partially because g o d, what has even HAPPENED since we … Continue reading A Post Trying that is Trying to Focus on the Victorian Era, but is Really Just My Musings on Genre and a Promo for Virginia Woolf/ Modernism
Context, Gothic Novels, and the Tolerance of Ambiguity
(This is So Long, I APOLOGIZE, friends) (but I especially apologize to Kristin). I was fairly entertained by the infographic that Kristin posted about How to Tell You're in a Gothic Novel, mostly because I sometimes feel legitimately confused about what classifies any text into any category, since I so often notice such different features … Continue reading Context, Gothic Novels, and the Tolerance of Ambiguity
Transnational Similarities and the Slipperiness of (Non)Fiction
Similar to what Carmen wrote in her post, I was really struck by the similarities between Oroonoko and so many of the other texts we read for Early American Literature. Last semester Abby had us read this non-canonized text called “The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield,” which was written under the … Continue reading Transnational Similarities and the Slipperiness of (Non)Fiction
Rethinking Modern British Literature 