Remember: For blog posts, you may reply to one of the prompts I post (see below), but you may also reply to another student’s post or to anything in the work that interests you.
Also: remember that blog posts should be at least 200 words to receive credit and they are due by 9:00 a.m. on the day we’re discussing the material in class.
- Discuss your impression of what you’ve read so far in The Mysteries of Udolpho. Do you like the book, not like the book? What did you notice about it thematically? Does Ann Radcliffe seem to have particular obsessions? What most interested you in the opening chapters or in Emily’s long farewell scene with Valancourt? Is what you’ve read so far what you expected of a 1790’s Gothic novel or was it surprising to you in some ways?
- Discuss something from one of the critical background essays that either struck you or interested you.