The Later Romantics
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Gothic Novel
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Gothic novel, European Romantic pseudomedieval fiction having a prevailing atmosphere of mystery and terror. Its heyday was the 1790s, but it underwent frequent revivals in subsequent centuries.
Called Gothic because its imaginative...
Bats: Out of Hell?
It took an Irish Gothic novelist to tie up centuries of demonic mythology surrounding this leathery, nocturnal mammal.
Source: History Today Volume 70 Issue 10 October 2020
By Alexander Lee
What would vampires...
Happy 185th wedding anniversary to Edgar Allan Poe and Virginia Clemm.
Source: Lit Hub, September 22, 2020
By Dan Sheehan
On this day in 1835, history’s most macabre literary lovebirds ghouled their way to Baltimore City Hall to file for a marriage...
Believing in Literature
Source: London Review of Books AUGUST 3, 2020
THE RELATION BETWEEN belief and making is a troubled one. Anybody who has ever banged their fists on the table in an...
Hecuba, Euripides | Dramatized reading
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One of Oscar Wilde’s Last Stops in England before Exile Was a Bookstore
Source: Literary Hub May 19, 2020
On May 18th, 1897, one day before Oscar Wilde would finish a two-year prison sentence for “gross indecency” with men, the author took a...
Albert Einstein Explains Why We Need to Read the Classics
Source: Open Culture | May 28th, 2020
Two pieces of reading advice I’ve carried throughout my life came from two early favorite writers, Herman Melville and C.S. Lewis. In one of...