Comments on the paper.....

Amy Hatch has some interesting points about feminism. She is using a variety of texts we have read in class. I think the use of The White Heron is a great pick for the topic she has chosen it could be applicable for a few different arguments about women.

Heather is linking Regionalism, Realism, and Transcendentalism and linking them all to Fuller’s text. Her main point seems to be about the growth women shared in these different genres.

Kristi talked about some of the texts we have read and how the character’s faults or influences lead them to away from society’s standards or constraints. This seems like an interesting subject for a paper and the use of Dorian Gray as well as Daisy Miller could both work well for this paper.

Meredith is using the American Scholar to link together transcendentalism with local color. I think this is a very original idea because the rest of the class didn’t bring up local color at all.

Michael is going to discuss the Gothic and Dark Romanticism. He has a lot of issues he is going to cover. The most interesting aspect I found was how he wants to discuss the way these texts would be written had these genres never existed.

Janel is linking Emerson’s Circles with Transcendentalism as well as Dark Romanticism. She is showing how all of these challenged people to look inward to their own faults. I think this is a great idea for the final paper. I would have never thought to link Emerson’s Circles with Dark Romanticism at all, but I do see the possibilities in doing so.

Deb wants to write about the civil war era and I think that this is also another very original idea. I would have to agree that the war did influence the majority of the texts written during the time period.

Caitlyn is writing about British society versus American society and the use of local color and regionalism. I think this is a great topic because in comparing and contrasting British and American local color it could be a very interesting paper.