The Literary Scholar

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The One Who Took a Wrong Turn in Wessex and Ended Up in the Wasteland When Victoria Died and Modernity Showed Up Uninvited In 1901, Queen Victoria finally took off her crown and slipped into eternal silence, leaving behind: Half the globe colored pink on maps A literary legacy soaked […]

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The One Who Tiptoed Through Tea Parties, Fog, and Fictional Heartbreaks with a Quill The Queen, the Crown, and a World That Couldn’t Sit Still The Victorian Age officially began in 1832, just a few years before Queen Victoria herself ascended the throne in 1837—young, dainty, and utterly unaware she’d

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The One Who Followed a Skylark Into a Metaphor and Didn’t Come Back When Poetry Left the Drawing Room and Frolicked Into the Fields The Neoclassical Age was all about sharp minds and sharper tongues.But around the end of the 18th century, poetry looked in the mirror and said: “Maybe

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The One Who Took a Shortcut Through the Graveyard to Get to the Heart After the Banquet of Brain, Enter the Appetite for Emotion The Neoclassical Age had thrown one hell of a literary party.There were: Rhyme duels Epigram battles Mock-epics about snipped hair And so many metaphors, even the

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. The One Who Survived the 18th Century’s Intellectual Sword Fights (With Style) Before We Begin, Let’s Powder Our Wigs Welcome to the Neoclassical Age, a literary period where every poet wore a cravat, every critic owned a dagger (disguised as a quill), and every woman carried both a fan and

By ABS, The Literary ScholarA.K.A. One Who Thinks the Renaissance Was Basically a Reboot with Better Fonts and Fewer Leeches  So, About That 100-Year Funk… Once upon a plague-ridden, sword-swinging, God-fearing time, Europe hit pause.No poetry, no printing, no fashion worth mentioning—just pestilence, pitchforks, and papal corruption. Historians call it the Dark Ages.Honestly, it was

By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Because poetry isn’t the only thing that wore a black cloak in the 1300s) Imagine living in a time where your to-do list looked something like this: Avoid the plague Dodge the Hundred Years’ War Find a husband before 15 Learn embroidery Die Welcome to 14th-century England, where life was short,

By ABS, The Literary Scholar(Who firmly believes the Wife of Bath invented the “tell-all” format before TV caught up) Welcome to “The Canterbury Tales”: Medieval England’s Original Road Trip Series Before Bigg Boss, before Keeping Up with the Kardashians, before Netflix had time to buffer, there was a bunch of medieval pilgrims on their way