19th Century Literature
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Small Town, Big Consequences: How Gossip Shapes Every Life in Middlemarch
George Eliot’s Middlemarch, serialized between 1871 and 1872, depicts life in a small English village. The…
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Whitman and Today’s Political Poetry: Who Inherits His Voice?
Walt Whitman is widely referred to as the father of American political poetry, a title that…
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How Readers Have Tried to Solve The Mystery of Edwin Drood
When The Mystery of Edwin Drood was originally published in 1870, the audience expected another of…
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From Historical Romance to Political Novel: Why “Kidnapped” Still Matters
Kidnapped, published in 1886, is one of Robert Louis Stevenson’s most successful novels and a seminal…