Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is best known for her fiction piece The Yearling published in 1939 which won for her the Pulitzer Prize. The movie Cross Creek is based on her book of the same name which was published in 1942 and is somewhat autobiographical. In the film, Marjorie (portrayed by Mary Steenburgen) left her husband ...
Emily Bronte’s only major novel, Wuthering Heights, was published in 1847. In this novel, there are instances of tragic romances, the Byronic hero and of multiple narrators. Also included are certain supernatural elements at Wuthering Heights, which contrast the lighter setting of Thrushcross Grange. In fact, certain specific gothic themes, occurring in the mid-Victorian era, ...
Q: “Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” is a typical product of the Victorian Literary and historical era.” How true do you think this is? Initially Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” may seem like the typical Gothic Victorian novel of its genre. However, we soon discover that in this novel, Bronte turns the Gothic traditions of her time upside ...
The most influential classic novels of our time each initiated a trend that changed the literary scene from then on. Remove any of these classic novels, and a hole would be formed in literature as we know it. This isn’t to say that the most influential classic novels necessarily changed our material or even spiritual ...