British Literature
Jane Austen’s Place in Literary History
Jane Austen is known as an 18th century author, a Romantic era’s author, and a Regency author. Her literature has aspects that match the features of all these literary periods. […]
World Literature
British Literature
Jane Austen’s Contribution to Novels as a Literary Genre
Jane Austen used present-day settings and probable characters and actions in her writings. She followed the footsteps of Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding, and contributed in the rise of novel as a literary genre. […]
British Literature
Jane Austen: The Rise of the Popular Author
Chronologically, Jane Austen belongs in a category with the literary Romantics. She wrote in a period described as experiencing the ‘rise of print culture’ and the ‘rise of the novel’. Yet, for many years, she was seen as out of place in English Romanticism. […]
American Literature
“Station Eleven”: What Happens to Art in a Dystopia?
“Station Eleven” examines art in many forms, through flashbacks and in the present. The novel presents a very different view of the post-apocalyptic landscape than we’re used to. […]
American Literature
“The Road”: Can You Find Hope in an Apocalyptic Event?
What all apocalyptic stories have in common is a question of whether the survivors can manage to rebuild society as they knew it or even build a better one. The answers vary in different works of fiction. […]
American Literature
Four Types of Cataclysmic Events in Post-Apocalyptic Literature
Living in the aftermath of an apocalyptic event isn’t easy. To take us to these specific dystopias, writers use different means to create their worlds. The events that set the stage for an apocalypse affect the aftermath significantly. […]
Literature
The Dystopian Future in M.T. Anderson’s “Feed”
The total reliance on Feed technology provides distractions rather than solutions. This is a perfect backdrop for a great cyberpunk dystopian narrative. […]
Literature
Doctorow’s “Little Brother” and Cyberpunk Utopia
Like other Young Adult, and especially cyberpunk, novels, the dystopia in “Little Brother” is disrupted by a teenaged protagonist who outsmarts the system. […]
Literature
Cyborgs and Cyberpunk Dystopian Fiction
Cyberpunk privileges the outsider, or sometimes a group of outsiders, who are usually young and incredibly talented hackers. […]
Literature
Margaret Atwood and Ustopia
Margaret Atwood strongly believes in the power of narrative. We write stories and they matter. To Atwood, they matter maybe more than anything else we do since they’re what we leave behind. […]