English Department

In her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, and her last, Persuasion, Jane Austen centers the perspectives of gentry women, Elinor Dashwood and Anne Elliot, who were socially successful because of their ability to regulate their own emotions and influence those...

Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) and Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), two of early American literature’s most canonized poets, each explore nature, human relationships, and religion and God. Though Bradstreet and Dickinson lived two centuries apart, each poet was similarly influenced by New England...