Medicine Buffalo

Early and 19th-Century American Literature

Beginning with Leslie Fiedler’s groundbreaking Love and Death in the American Novel, UB’s English Department has had a long history of innovative work in nineteenth-century American literary studies.
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How 19th-century American literature planted sensationalism in conversations about abortions

After the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, one aspect of the abortion debate stayed the same: lurid sensationalism. Republican Party firebrand Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene extolled the ...
CBC.ca

19th-century literature constrains our concepts of love, scholars say

Depictions of love in Victorian novels can have a corrosive influence on what we expect from our love lives today. Elissa Gurman, a University of Toronto PhD student who studies tropes of women ...
University of Bristol

The long nineteenth century

Doug works on the history and theory of the novel in English. He is particularly interested in how novelists’ techniques for describing thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations have evolved over ...
Medicine Buffalo

18th- and 19th-century British and Irish Literature

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Studies at UB brings together faculty whose interests and scholarship focus on the literary, cultural, and political histories of modern Britain ...
Post and Courier

Review: 'Normal People' harkens to 19th century literature to tell compelling contemporary love story

NORMAL PEOPLE. By Sally Rooney. Hogarth. 273 pages. $26. “Conversations with Friends” (2017), Sally Rooney’s first novel, came out of nowhere, like a great gulp of something fresh and young. Now comes ...
Uproxx

‘The Wire’ as 19th Century Literature

As a hardened Internet veteran, there isn’t much out there that surprises me. But this is something truly unique, whip-smart, and brilliantly executed: a pair of writers at Hooded Utilitarian wrote an ...
Slate

The Golden Age of Telegraph Literature

The short story “A Centennial-Telegraphic Romance,” which appeared in the 1877 anthology Lightning Flashes and Electric Dashes, begins quite hopefully for our hero, Sydney Summerville. A Western Union ...
Dawn

Punjabi literature in nineteenth century

THE book “Five Punjabi Centuries” has another article “Political Change and Punjabi Literature in the Nineteenth Century” by Attar Singh. It begins: The signing of the treaty of Amritsar between ...
Yahoo News Canada

19th-century literature constrains our concepts of love, scholars say

Depictions of love in Victorian novels can have a corrosive influence on what we expect from our love lives today. Elissa Gurman, a University of Toronto PhD student who studies tropes of women ...