British Literature
Charlotte and Emily Brontë’s Taste in Heroes
By Timothy Spurgin, PhD, Lawrence University As one might expect, Charlotte and Emily have many things in common. Their novels challenge social values and also reveal […]
British Literature
British Literature
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Dense Forest of Symbols
By Dorsey Armstrong, PhD, Purdue University An anonymous poem of 2,530 lines, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, survives in a single manuscript containing three other Middle […]
British Literature
Hamlet and the Problem of Inaction
By Peter Saccio, Ph.D., Dartmouth College Hamlet is a young prince whose father has been murdered, who has difficulty finding an appropriate response. Severely criticized […]