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Harry Potter and The Prophet's Hair

Within Salman Rushdie’s The Prophet’s Hair we see Hashim fall under the influence of a hair of the Prophet Muhammad that had been stolen....

Punishment: Then and Now

Although it was eventually disproved with advancements in technology, the woman’s body Seamus Heaney writes of in Punishment, suffered a...

"The horror!"

Upon my first reading of Heart of Darkness a few semesters ago for a literature class, I was shocked at some of the graphic things Conrad...

Seeing into the Future

It is no surprise that W. B. Yeats wrote something as dramatic as The Second Coming given his theatrical history. The visuals that he...

"The Other Boat", The Other Life

It is said that Forster began writing The Other Boat in 1913 but did not complete it until 1957 0r 1958. Thinking historically around...

Hiding Ourselves

This somewhat fascination in living a double life for both Stevenson and Wilde interests me greatly. I wonder if it was a common topic in...

Taking Risks

We begin to see now in the Victorian Era a pushback of Christian beliefs in literature. I was reminded by a classmate this past week to...

A Victorian Horror Story

The Old Nurse’s Story is not what I expected it to be. It is filled with all those horror story tropes that you still see in literature...

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