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January Books
My January reading for pleasure booksand reviews. A Merciful Promise is book 6 in Kendra Elliot’s Mercy Kilpatrick series. These are fantastic reads that mix the FBI life with the prepper life. Love them and highly recommend. Big Bad Wolf is the 1st book in Jenika Snow’s The Lycan’s series. This one I got hooked… Read more
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Evolution of Romance Novels: Part 2
Anne Radcliffe is considered the mother of gothic fiction with her work, The Mysteries of Udolpho, published in 1794. This monumental book—the first widely popular gothic novel—encompasses Romanticism ideals with gothic concepts of the sublime and the supernatural. The eighteenth-century author introduced readers to specific tastes. Her gothic prose won favor with readers of the… Read more
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Evolution of Romance Novels: Part 1
The Romantic era was pivotal in English literature from approximately 1785 to 1830. During this time, Romantics like Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Jane Austen, Robert Burns, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Ann Radcliffe created poetry and prose focused on individualism, emotion, and imagination. This was in clear contrast with the intellectual neoclassical movement that… Read more
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