(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
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Comparing and Contrasting Oroonoko and “The Interesting Narrative”
What’s fascinating about Oroonoko and “The Interesting Narrative” is that they both follow slave narratives, but the authors are polar opposites. Aphra Behn was a white woman with no expertise whatsoever (as far as we know), and Equiano is supposedly telling his own story, though historians debate the validity of that claim. Both claim that … Continue reading Comparing and Contrasting Oroonoko and “The Interesting Narrative”
Rethinking Modern British Literature 