Category Archives: News

As mentioned in the previous post, in class the other day we discussed the idea of the spectacle and looking at something that cannot return the gaze. This happens several times in The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, particularly … Continue reading →

Recently in class, we spent a good deal of time discussing the sensation of looking at something that cannot look back at you, whether it is the bodies of the dead turned from subject to object, or characters in novels … Continue reading →

As I was scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed yesterday, I came across this event: “Dickens of a Christmas,” which is an annual event put on by the Heritage Foundation of Franklin and Williamson County. The event description reads, “Franklin’s Main … Continue reading →

Dickens and Collins were superstars of their time, and this success can be attributed to their talent as authors, but also and perhaps equally important, their ability to market their books effectively. Through advertisements and serializing their works, these authors … Continue reading →

Over Halloween weekend I was constantly reminded of the novel The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. This novel is representational of the sensation genre, because throughout, Collins elicits internal responses from the reader through his language. This can be … Continue reading →

Alongside thinking about how we are advertised to, as consumers, it might be valuable to also look at how we advertise outward. Currently, laptops are the current source of how people consume much of the advertisements they see; ads before … Continue reading →

In class on Thursday, I brought up Stephen King’s categorization of the three types of terror while we were discussing The Woman in White. I did a little more digging into it, since it had been a while since I … Continue reading →

Last weekend I went to Target to shop for Halloween candy and decorations. I was hoping to get a Halloween themed t-shirt as well while I was there. Instead, all I could find were Christmas sweaters. There were also Christmas … Continue reading →

I’m not much of a television consumer, but recently I took the suggestion of a friend and watched the premiere of a new fall show called Scream Queens. Usually I don’t go for this kind of inane teenage drama, but … Continue reading →

In class on Tuesday we briefly talked about Asylums in England, and after a little searching I came across this article in Household Words in which Dickens expresses his views on mental illness and institutions for the insane. The article … Continue reading →