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Death and Ending The End of the Fallen Women In the Garden: How Tess of the d'Urbervilles shows gender inequality Narrative Voice in Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Mill on the Floss, and Frankenstein Fate and injustice in three parts "What right have you to be merry?": Silliness and Seriousness in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" Tess, Frankenstein, and Mill on the Floss: The Endings When Suffering Enters A Christmas Carol A Stranger to Oneself: A Hellish Scene in A Christmas Carol? The Fallen Woman Bearing Tidings in 'A Christmas Carol' The usage of setting as it relates to characterization The Second Fall: Fallen Women The Mechanics of Scrooge's Repentance Endings in Frankenstein, Mill on the Floss, and Tess The End: Frankenstein, Mill on the Floss, and Tess of the d'Ubervilles Remember . . . Christmas Day How setting is applied with a different purpose in Frankenstein, Lady Audley’s secret and Tess of the D’urbervilles. Be a man, Scrooge. The Cross-Shaped Hole in A Christmas Carol The Incursion of Allegory in A Christmas Carol The Epistemology of Hospitality in A Christmas Carol Is “The Wisest Thing” a Moral Responsibility? Martineau and Benefit Clubs Participatory Recognition Naming John the Baptist S/spirit and hospitality in Luke 1 Directional Charity and the Revolutionary Table Church, State, and Hospitality The Least of Whom? Tracing the Element of Surprise in Matthew 25:31-46 Luke - Possibly the MOST Pivotal Character Neglected Georgey Sir Michael's Fate Mobility as a Disruptive Force The Ins and Outs of Lady Audley's Secret Think about the children! Sympathy for the Lady The Power Struggle in Lady Audley’s Secret The Real Power Robert Possess is Character Power Struggles between Robert and Lady Audley Sympathizing with Lady Audley How does the gothic help the novel of lady Audley’s secret 'Speak...can't you?': Unseen Faces and Unusual Speech in Mary Barton "Living Encounters" and the Problem of Charity “Now don’t be hasty, Mary Barton”: Guilt, Conscience, and Moral Judgment in Gaskell On Endings and Being Out of Reach Recognizing the (M)other: Maternal Relationships in Mary Barton (Mis)Taken Identities in Mary Barton: Sight and Deceit in the Female Tête-à-tête Anvilicious Narm in Mary Barton ? The Goodness of Grief in Mary Barton When Harry Met Mary: A Flirtation Without Narration The Source of John Barton's Rancor The Carson Women Crucifiers and Crucified: Questioning Christological Identity in Mary Barton Mill on the Floss as a Bildungsroman Novel A Larger Look on the Pairing of Maggie and Tom Do Not Our Hearts Burn Within Us? Omniscience vs. Intimacy: The Narrator's Role in Eliot's The Mill on the Floss Struggles Between Family Duty and Personal Desire The Nuances of Maggie and Tom's Relationship Maggie's Punishment Maggie and Tom: A Sibling Love Constantly Suffocated Beyond Apophaticism? Justified Unrighteous Anger Hospitality and Judgment in John Chrysostom Maggie as a Destructive Force The Purpose of Maggie's Childhood Identification and Recognition in "Jesus Christ in Texas" Christ the Deceiver Are gender roles the central theme of Mill on The Floss? Maggie and Tom Mary Shelley and the Purpose of Power Reading Consolation in Nature, and the Consoling Nature of Reading in Mary Shelley’s "The Last Man" Psalm 8 according to The Last Man Nature in the Time of Plague To Say Nothing of the Dog Phantom Figures Quest for Eden or March Into Canaan? Creatures Forgotten & Remembered: Animal Hospitality in The Last Man "Now is man lord of creation?" A Heavenless Hospitality Wherefore the Sybil? The Right of Kings in The Last Man Excess and Obscurity Pulling Up a Sibyl by Her Own Bootstraps: Narrative Contradictions in "The Last Man" The Purposes of the "Love Plot" in Mary Barton The Narrative Voice In "Mary Barton" The Setting of the Home in Mary Barton Mary's Development and Gaskell's Call to Action What an Omniscient Narrator Can do for a Love Story Elizabeth Gaskell's Choice of Narrative Voice Mr. Carson’s Character Development Female Virtue John Barton as Bathsheba Accepting Kindness Mary Barton and Her Struggle with Love and Money A Short Essay in Observations and Questions The description in Mary Barton is the most potent weapon to help the working class movement In Whose Image? Impossible Ideals: Addressing the IPW and Aporetic Tensions in the Rhetorical Imperative Democracy, Fear, and Vanquishing
