HUST "Wish List": Films, Books, & More

Throughout the semester, we've been accumulating (at least hypothetically) a list of popular culture references that touch on familiar themes from Colloquium III. You might want to return to the list at some point when your Netflix list has run dry or when you're ready for some leisurely reading. Finally, per our conversation today, Jane Austen has, indeed, been "Facebooked."

Films: (in order of chronological relevance)

• Apocalypto
• Elizabeth
• Shakespeare in Love
• New World
• Stage Beauty
• The Last of the Mohicans
• 1776
• Amazing Grace
• Glory

Television Series:

• Colonial House (yes, you can get this on Netflix!)
  
• John Adams
• Roots

Literature:

• Persuasion, Jane Austen
• "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman (link to Cornell's the Making of America website; original publication images)
  
• The Awakening, Kate Chopin
  
• The House of Mirth, Edith Warton
• Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
• Long Journey From Home

Prof's Picks:

• Marie Antoinette
• The Libertine
• Beloved, Toni Morrison
• Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet, Charlotte Gordon (I got it for 5.99 at Notre Dame Bookstore Clearance!)
• Will in the World, Stephen Greenblatt (on Shakespeare)
  

Happy Birthday John Milton

Today is John Milton's birthday. In lieu of singing him a song, go ahead and check out today's article in the London paper, The Guardian, on Milton and his lasting contributions to our literary and political worlds. Or, if it's more your style, test your Miltonic trivia with this quiz: "How well do you know Milton?"

Extra Credit Blog

After this Friday, all "official" blog entries will be completed. However, if you'd like to offer one last post reflecting on our course this term, it can serve as an "extra credit" blog. I will use the grade for this reflection post to replace your lowest blog grade so far (for some, maybe it's a 3...for others, it might be a zero because it slipped your mind one week). Either way, it would be great to hear everyone's thoughts, suggestions, and reflections.