Little Thoughts About Books and Stuff

This semester I am taking Graduate Seminar in British Literature: Written Revolutions. We are in week 4 and I can say already this is an interesting topic. Here's some of what we've read already: Section from Milton's Paradise Lost A number of 18th Century poems The Rover by Aphra Behn The Beggar's Opera by John Gay What we're reading this week: A section from A Vindication of the Rights of Men by Mary Wollstonecraft A section from Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke A section from The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine and other selected works by all Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and Richard Price A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Some of what we will be reading: Poems of the Romantic Poets Readings about the abolition of slavery Gender issues in Victorian Society Writings on the Industrial Revolution Works of Moderism from James Joyce, Virginia Wolfe and T.S. Elliot Unlike last semester I don't have access t...

I have no idea what to write today so here's a list of all the stories and poems I'm reading for American Lit this semester.  Besides this massive list, there are a ton of articles.   What I've Read: The Parish and The Hill  by Mary Doyle Curran (I really enjoyed this novel) "Fat of the Land" from Hungry Hearts  by Anzia Yezierska "City of Refuge" by Rudolph Fisher "Truant" by Claude McKay "The Guilded Six-Bits" by Zora Neale Hurston Excerpt from First Two Chapters of Their Eyes Were Watching God  by Zora Neale Hurston (I want to reread this now that I've read this excerpt again) "Recitatif" by Toni Morrison (I didn't know that Toni Morrison had written a short story. This was really good and I suggest everyone read it!) "Bright and Morning Star" by Richard Wright "Exodus" by James Baldwin What I Was Supposed to Read but Didn't (and reasons why): Quicksand  by Nella Larsen (i...