Plymouth

"Plymouth is a sea-side English city located in Devon in Southwest England. In 1620, a group of pilgrims left Plymouth for the New World and established Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts, United States. In the seventeenth century, Plymouth was an important port town and once had a strong connection to early English piracy" (Cove vetted location). Plymouth was the location in Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility (1813) where Edward went to boarding school and met Lucy Steele.

Plymouth

Plymouth is a sea-side English city located in Devon in Southwest England. In 1620, a group of pilgrims left Plymouth for the New World and established Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts, United States. In the seventeenth century, Plymouth was an important port town and once had a strong connection to early English piracy.

Blog #9 || Nov. 12

In this post, I’d like to respond to a question Dr. Janzen posed about the Gothic tropes of of Housman’s The Were-Wolf. Namely, the tropes brought into question were the gothic double, the hunter-hunted, and the setting. These tropes have fairly conventional forms in the Gothic genre. The double is usually a twin or a narrative foil. It’s also fairly common that a character be a double of some long-passed ancestor.

Luci Beach - Athabascan

"The name "Athabascan" comes from the large lake in Canada called "Lake Athabasca". The lake was given its name by the Cree Indians, who lived east of it. In Cree, "Athabasca" means "grass here and there", and was a descriptive name for the lake. The name was extended to refer to those Indian groups which lived west of the lake.