Curious

The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in Victorian England, is ripe for critical analysis and worthy of all the attention it can get. It wasn’t until I’d leisurely crept through two-thirds of the novel that I recognized why it felt so familiar. I kid you not: this is the Victorian novel Shakespeare never got around to writing.  [...]

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The year I chose to change my major I re-read Jane Austen’s Emma for R.H.’s Literary Criticism course. Every English major is required to take Literary Criticism and every time he teaches the course R.H. assigns a short “little gem” of an essay on his favorite Austen novel. I spent at least a week [...]

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