To begin class on Tuesday, we discussed some of the reading questions assigned for the day. We reread the passage on page 62 when George and Robert are trying to get in to Lady Audley’s dressing room. We questioned why Alicia said no at first,…

Margaret Oliphant makes it clear that she finds the genre of sensation fiction to be dangerous. Oliphant illustrates the trend that sensation novelists often tend to elicit their thrills by depicting likable evil. Her concern is that the tools used in sensation fiction, in trying…

Before we are even given a chance to be told George Talboys’ library inventory, it is described as “no very brilliant collection of literature.” The narrator starts by describing the contents of the trunk, which all seem old and random. Robert Audley treats the items…

Oliphant’s beef with sensation fiction is that the books in this genre are written by the authors just to incorporate ideas and notions that evoke sensation in the reader without paying close attention to the realism of their writing. Oliphant states how “it is only…

While in George Talboys’ library, Robert Audley comes across an inventory that would suggest that Talboys misses his lavished life, previous to the unfortunate event of his father cutting him off financially as a result of his decision to marry Lady Audley, or back then,…

The old Greek testament and Eton Latin Grammar are both old writing, which suggests that Talboys has an affinity for just that, old literature. Lord Byron is a satirical poet, was known mainly for long narrative poems. He was also a pioneer to the Romantic…

When google imaging “pre-Raphaelite”, all of the paintings depicted are of women-women with long protruding hair and wandering, pain-filled eyes. The first word that came to my mind when grazing these paintings was distress. The only way to really describe “pre-Raphaelite” is ethereal; all of…