Final Blog: Who Stayed On The Island

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Amy H will be connecting Regionalsim and Transcendentalism. Her argument will have a focus on women authors, including Fuller...and the discussion will be how the old thoughts about women's roles gave way to the new...a quest for self...Change is coming.

Heather will also have a feminist focus. With Fuller as her cornerstone she will be using other texts, such as Daisy Miller to discuss how women became independent.

Kristi will connect characters from various authors: Poe, Huntley, Hawthorne, Wilde...to show what happens to characters who stray from the path of the social norms...how these strayings always lead to unpleasant or disasterous results.

Jenel will be discussing/linking Dark Romanticism to Transcendentalism. She will be talking about circles (tease) and will discuss what happens when man looks into himself and shows his capacity for being capable. The writings she will be using, she said are at the opposite ends of the spectrum: The Birthmark and the American Scholar.

Michael has plans for a lot of linkages using Gothic and Dark Romantic texts. He will show through his textual connections how the genres progressed and broke from their predecessors. He is thinking of showing how some of the works might have turned out if they were written out of genre. He is thinking he might revise his focus.

Caitlin will be discussing British writers, their culture, what was happening in society at the time and connect it to American writers of the Regionalism era. Some of her authors are Freeman, Fuller and Hardy.

Sara will be discussing the interconnectedness of Gothic-Realist-Naturalist texts—Zola will be her touchstone author. (Sorry this is the part I started worrying about myself choking up again and stopped typing).

Thanks for 15 weeks of learning Julie!