Jane Yolen

Jane Austen’s literature, until the publication of Emma (1815), consistently delivered novels that contained similar series of events, societal norms, ideologies, and depiction of women throughout the Austenian era. The release of Emma challenged the traditional depiction of Austen’s heroine because now the heroine, Emma Woodhouse, is allotted enormous wealth which provokes and exudes her source of agency throughout the progression of the novel. This is a unique and uncommon characteristic, in…

Phyllis Wachter, Aiko Yamashiro, Laura Boyle, Harry L. Katz, Elaine Bander, Anne Toner, and James Rovira, Jane Austen is THE greatest author from the last two centuries. Each and every one of the authors mentioned has an impressive reputation, however, not nearly as impressive as Jane Austen’s. Even Wendy Lesser claims one of the main reasons she reads is because of Jane Austen! Without a doubt, Jane Austen IS the greatest author of the past two centuries. She wrote only six books, although…

ED 734 Story Evaluation Candidate Name: Ryshique Williams “Good children’s literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child”, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. I chose this quote to introduce my assignment because after reading the book “When I Grow Up”, by Misty Copeland I can clearly understand why my niece Kayden purchased this book. She and the author have a love of dance in common. It’s in both of their hearts, and once something becomes a part of you…

The Portrait of a Lady: A Fiction of Portraits I. Introduction Indicated from the title, The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a novel full portrait of a young lady named Isabel Archer, the main character. In first sight, it is easy to think this novel simply as a description of a lady provided by the narrator. The term “portrait” gives us a feeling that we are to see a lady fully depicted, or, portrayed inside the frame of the narrative. However, as readers read along, they get to know that…

How can Austen's Mansfield Park be read within the New Historicist argument suggested by Stephen Greenblatt; the ideological paradigm where there is no room for dissent? Or how can Austen herself be understood either as a novelist or as a historian, especially with her great role in nation building, according to the definition of a nation suggested by Homi Bhabha? While Richard Allen's emphasis the complex symbolic in the literary works that propagate specific ideological structures (Allen. 11),…

Gooney Bird is a series of children's novels by Lois Lowry the American author who has made a name for herself writing children's fantasy such as the Given Quartet, The Tate series, the Sam Krupnik series, and the Anastasia Krupnik series.She was born to career military officer based in Hawaii and spent her childhood moving across different states of the US such as Pennsylvania, New York, and Rhode Island. When she was eleven she lived for a brief period in Tokyo, spent her high school years in…

Charlotte Brontë ‘s “Jane Eyre”. Against all odds, both works has contrasting and differing element from its’ narrative and writing styles. With Rebecca being known as the Jane Eyre of the 20th Century, and vice versa, avoiding uproar among the public was inevitable. Nevertheless, both of these classic literary works has transcended over time. It has ranged far beyond the comparisons and contradictions of its’ heroines and scenarios. The fictional written chronic works of both Jane Eyre…

Charles Brockden Brown’s gothic novel, Wieland, or The Transformation, divulges into the ambiguity through the first person narration of Clara, and her inability to decipher between reality and superstition. Throughout the haunting novel, Clara finds herself endlessly questioning the strange events that pierce her and her family’s lives, unable to trust her own skepticism and to find any definite answers. Scholar, Christine Hedlin, observes Clara’s narration in her essay entitled “Was There Not…

Adele and Edna: Two Forms of Divinities In literature, authors occasionally resort to reader's faith in supernatural knowledge to convey controversial themes that cannot be explicitly expressed in storylines. Women independence and gender consciousness, for instance, were such notions that the patriarchal society disapproved in the late nineteenth-century. In order to reveal the restrictive nature behind ostensibly perfect social order, Kate Chopin constructs two forms of divinities in The…

In the article Yes, I’ve Folded Up My Masculine Mystique, Honey, author Stephanie Coontz speaks about the issue of masculine mystique in the present-day. Coontz backs her analysis and statements with several sources from sociologists to authors of several books. By using these sources, Coontz finds the history of extreme traditional gender roles and how they affect society in the present. By showing how these gender roles have affected society and how they continue to affect individuals, readers…