• The History of Literature

    The History of Literature

    What Can Edward Gibbon Still Teach Us Today?

    By History of Literature  August 1, 2022
    The History of Literature

    On Matsuo Bashō, Haiku’s Greatest Master

    By History of Literature  July 25, 2022
    The History of Literature

    How Tom Stoppard Became One of the Best-Known Playwrights in the World

    By History of Literature  July 18, 2022
    The History of Literature

    On the Life of Czech Sci-Fi Author Karel Čapek, the Man Who Coined the Term “Robot”

    By History of Literature  July 12, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Aristotle Can Teach Us Everything We Need to Know About Screenwriting

    By History of Literature  July 5, 2022
    The History of Literature

    How Did the Prim, Religious Christina Rossetti Come to Write Such a Bizarre and Hedonistic Poem?

    By History of Literature  June 27, 2022
    The History of Literature

    A Close Reading of Emily Dickinson’s Poem “Because I could not stop for Death”

    By History of Literature  June 21, 2022
    The History of Literature

    A Close Reading of Christina Rossetti’s Sensationally Bizarre Poem “Goblin Market”

    By History of Literature  June 13, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Why Walt Whitman Wrote Leaves of Grass

    By History of Literature  June 6, 2022
    The History of Literature

    What, Exactly, Is American Literature?

    By History of Literature  May 31, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Considering the Morals of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling

    By History of Literature  May 23, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Beverly Gologorsky on the Turmoil of the Late 1960s

    By History of Literature  May 16, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Robin Hemley on Kafka and Writerly Ambition

    By History of Literature  May 9, 2022
    The History of Literature

    What Makes Mysteries so Compelling?

    By History of Literature  May 2, 2022
    The History of Literature

    On the First Work of Literature by an African American Author

    By History of Literature  April 25, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Linda H. Davis on the Literary Fame and Notorious Exploits of Stephen Crane

    By History of Literature  April 18, 2022
    The History of Literature

    On the Creative Partnership of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

    By History of Literature  April 11, 2022
    The History of Literature

    What Literary Techniques Did Sigmund Freud Employ?

    By History of Literature  April 4, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Writers in Odessa, Ukraine’s “Black Sea Pearl”

    By History of Literature  March 28, 2022
    The History of Literature

    When Mark Twain Tried to Start a Publishing Company (and Epically Failed)

    By History of Literature  March 21, 2022
    The History of Literature

    “I am Never Too Busy to Think of S&S.” On Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility

    By History of Literature  March 14, 2022
    The History of Literature

    How to Express Your Love to Virginia Woolf

    By History of Literature  March 7, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Ten Sentences That Defined a Nation: On the Gettysburg Address

    By History of Literature  February 28, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Anna Holmes on the Radical Life of Margaret Wise Brown

    By History of Literature  February 22, 2022
    The History of Literature

    On the Life and Works of Indelible American Poet Gwendolyn Brooks

    By History of Literature  February 14, 2022
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