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By Jackson Pinkowski Scholars widely consider The Two Gentlemen of Verona as William Shakespeare’s earliest play, and for good reason. In the early comedy, one…

By Marcello Corbanese At the center of Beloved rests the horrifying question in the back of every mind except Sethe’s: why would a mother kill…

By Chloe Sproule In fictionalizing the events leading to the assassination of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro in 1979—whose perpetrators and exact circumstances are…

By Ava Ellis Content warning: This essay contains mentions of racial violence and slurs Art and literature produce a connection between producer and audience. For…

How Photographing Models With Books Changed Reading By Daphne Short Since its inception in 1984, the Hermes Birkin bag has served as the ultimate symbol…

By Amelia McCluskey “Everyone is putting everything up on Facebook,” declares Mr. Griffith, the English teacher in Will Gluck’s Easy A (2010) (48:56). To signal…

Wharton’s subversive use of typically feminine forms both aligns with and deviates from Austen, which reveals the extent to which Wharton draws on the inherited literary forms of female authors and rejects these conventions to create the social world of the novel.

By Isabelle Lamont-Lennox The Antebellum era of 1815 to 1861 in the United States brought forth a cultural endorsement of white children’s play and leisure…

In “Washing Day,” temporality and memory liberate the speaker from oppressive patriarchal constructions of time, literary history, and labour, ultimately revealing how male-dominated institutions suppress women’s consciousness and imaginative capacities.