The History of Literature

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

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

 
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
The History of Literature

Liu Xinwu and the “Scar Literature” of China

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

Why Should We Read Anything by John Milton Today?

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

On Sophocles, Boswell, and the Power of Literature

By History of Literature  January 24, 2022
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