Wider Reading Love Through the Ages/Literature in Shared Contexts

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The Yellow Wallpaper- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1891
Themes: Restriction in Marriage, Madness, Role of Women as subordinate
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American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis, 1991
Themes: Brutality, Bigotry, Consumerism, Obsession, Madness
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Porphyria's Lover, Robert Browning, 1836
Themes: Obsession, Possession of women, pathetic fallacy "The rain set early in to-night"
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The Woman in Black, Susan Hill, 1983
Gothic. Themes: Isolation, The Past, Supernatural, Madness, familial love-betrayal
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The Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller, 1949
Themes: Death of the American Dream, Abandonment, Betrayal, Lies, Pride
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I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison, 1967
Themes: Brutality, Hatred, Inhumanity, Fears of Context (Cold War), Destruction of civilisation.
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Funeral Blues, W.H.Auden, 1936
Modern Elegy, large scale of imagery. Themes: Death, Natural World, Silence, grief
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Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
Renaissance Themes: Eternal love, Patriarchy, Forbidden Love,
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An Inspector Calls, J.B.Priestly, 1945
Modern Themes: Death, Lost Love, Social Responsibility, The Past/Memory, Age
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A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, 1843
Victorian Themes: Plight of the Poor, Class division, Lost Love, Youth.
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If, Rudyard Kipling, 1895
Themes: Victorian Stoicism, Role of Men, Paternalism, Rationality.
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The Crucible, Arthur Miller, 1953
Modern, Themes: Persecution, Mass Hysteria, Madness, Subjugation of women, conservatism, Christianity,
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Pygmalion's Bride, Carol Ann Duffy, 1999
Post-Modern Themes: Role of Women, Objectification, Idealistic view of women, Superior role of women, Feminist overtones
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Valentine, Carol Ann Duffy, 1993
Post-Modern Themes: Extended metaphor, Unconventional Love ("I give you an onion), Passion, Realistic view of Love, Possession, Marriage,
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Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897
Victorian. Themes: Supernatural v Christianity, Marriage, Role of women, Inhumanity, Reverence, Sexuality
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Love's Philosophy, Percy Byshee Shelly, 1819
Romantic, Themes: Unrequited Love, Nature, Union, Religion, Obsession
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas, 1947
Themes: Familial Love, Death, Denial, Role of men, stoicism, Refrain, Imperative, call to action, Father and Son
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Themes: Brutality, Bigotry, Consumerism, Obsession, Madness

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American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis, 1991

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Gothic. Themes: Isolation, The Past, Supernatural, Madness, familial love-betrayal

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Themes: Death of the American Dream, Abandonment, Betrayal, Lies, Pride

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