Issue number five
Articles from our latest edition.
The Exotic, The Gothic and The Romantic; Incredulity towards Metanarratives
An Essay By Second a Year Student at University of Brighton, College of Arts and Humanities
This essay examines how both writer’s fascinations with the Gothic and the Exotic can be read as a means of exposing the inadequacies of a Romantic Britain; each text questioning the ‘legitimation’ of established metanarratives by presenting ‘incredulity’.
Matthew Iredale
How Does Webster Reframe Concepts of Gender?
An Essay by a Second Year Literature Student at University of Brighton, College of Arts and Humanities
This essay explores how Webster's writing challenges the discourses of medical theorising and the notion that 'Woman as the imperfect male', how the audience witness an inversion of separate spheres of gender, and how the play begins to dismantle them.
Mary Peake
Nature and the Romantic Poet
An Essay by a Second Year Literature Student at the University of Brighton, College of Arts and Humanities
Catherine Peck examines the relationship between Romantic poetry and Nature, and the sublime significance of such imagery in their writing.
Catherine Peck
Freedom and Identity in Nineteenth Century American Women's Fiction
An Essay by a Second Year Literature Student at University of Brighton, College of Arts and Humanities
This essay discusses how Chopin’s The Awakening and the poetry of Emily Dickinson explore the boundaries and limitations of freedom and self, in a way which writes against typical nineteenth century American, male perspectives (such as Emerson).
Jack Thurland
The 'American Dream' in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and Ernest Hemingway's The Sun also Rises
An Essay by a Second Year Literature Student at the University of Brighton, College of Arts and Humanities
This essay shows how the work of Earnest Hemmingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald challenge the archetypal conception of the American Dream, and present alternative methods of lifestyle which unify the individual with a greater sense of autonomy.
Rebecca Poulter
'I wrote a poem last night. Woke up and I hate it. [For Nial]'
Poetry from a Second Year Literature Student at the University of Brighton, College of Arts and Humanities
Through her poetry Rosie often attempts to communicate seemingly trivial subjects. In this example she explores the liberating yet frustrating relationship between writer and writing.
Rosie Hess
Dissertation: A Lacanian Approach to the American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
A Dissertation by a Third year English Literature Student at the University of Brighton, College of Arts and Humanities
This dissertation draws on a Lacanian perspective to explore how the American Dream is a symbol of the ever-evolving nature of human desire.
