By Juliana Hall (Fall 2022) While men in power, both fictional and real, are consistently praised for their actions and excused for their wrongdoings, women in power are criticized or portrayed as weak and unworthy of titles. In The Blazing World, however, the relationship between the two female characters and […]
Monthly Archives: December 2022
By Julia Dantzler (Fall 2022) In the 12th century, Marie de France wrote the lai “Bisclavret,” which is the story of a man who changes forms and disappears for days at a time from his wife and civilized life to be a wolf in the forest. This lai is one […]
By Jeremy Whitman-Kinghorn (Fall 2022) Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work that offers an unrivaled glimpse into medieval life in 14th-century England. Written in Middle English in the 14th century, Chaucer wrote what was clearly from his perspective a quite accurate dissection of the social structure of the […]
By Jamie Burke (Fall 2022) In this essay, John Milton’s Tenure of Kings and Magistrates will be analyzed. This will be done while looking at this text through the lens of politics and nationality, with a focus on identifying the role narratives and imagery play in the politics and historical […]
By Ian Quinn (Fall 2022) It is only through time the most staggering warnings are proved to be perceived as such. And while The King of Tars is mere fiction among real-world events dealing with the same issues, its presentation of them successfully displays a story that is as grim […]
By Heiner Badilla Sanchez (Fall 2022) Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum translated as “Hail God King of the Jades (Jews)” is a mixture of several concepts put together through the lens of Emilia Lanier. This particular piece is important for numerous reasons especially within the context of the modern society we […]
By Genevieve Duska (Fall 2022) A Muzzle for Melastomus by Rachel Speght is a text that opened doors for early feminists. Speght was the first English woman to write something of this nature under her own name. She wrote two known works in her lifetime, both which explore feminism. Her […]
By Fengying Guo (Fall 2022) “The Lay of the Werewolf” is one of the twelve Breton lais written by Marie de France. Historians know very little about her and they believe that she is either a nun or an aristocratic woman because those are “the only literate women in medieval […]
By Emily Steiger (Fall 2022) Rachel Speght’s, A Muzzle for Melastomus (Black Mouth), made her the first Englishwoman to critique gender ideology back in 1617. She was a prominent writer who contributed to the pamphlet wars, a phenomenon that was occurring during this post-printing press innovation that made it possible […]
By Grace Cairns (Fall 2022) Oroonoko, a 17th Century novel written by Aphra Behn, follows the mournful love story between Oroonoko, a handsome African prince, and Imoinda, his beautiful partner. It follows the journey of them being sold into slavery and the mistreatment they face in enslavement, ending with both […]