Do any Jean Rhys books take place in Dominica?

Charlotte Bronte's 1847 masterpiece ''Jane Eyre'' is more than one of the most iconic love stories in all of literature. In it, readers can find an unlikely feminist heroine, one who defies gender and class to live life on her own terms.

This lesson will explore the works of Simone de Beauvoir. It will give a synopsis of ''The Second Sex'' and its assertion that woman is treated as 'the Other.' It will also include its accusations against history, biology, and even women.

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, was first published in 1847 under Bronte's pseudonym, Currier Bell. It's about a girl named - not surprisingly - Jane Eyre, and it's a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story that follows Jane from childhood through motherhood. Many elements of Jane's life are similar to events in Charlotte Bronte's life. Because the work features a strong-willed and intelligent woman, it's often considered to be an early feminist text.

What happens when a bunch of downtrodden drunks in a bar are shaken from their pipe dream lives? Find out in this video lesson about Eugene O'Neill's epic play 'The Iceman Cometh.'

Wallace Stevens' poem 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' is an important American modernist poem that can be seen in several different ways. Read on to find out more about the poem and how to analyze it. Then, test your knowledge with a quiz.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's story ''My Kinsman, Major Molineux'' is a coming-of-age tale with political undertones. This lesson helps you fully understand the plot of the story before giving you an analysis that will help you comprehend the text's meaning.

You may think that your family has issues, and maybe that's true, but few families are as tragic as the Tyrone family in Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'.

'Yellow Woman' is a story by Leslie Marmon Silko originally published in 1974. This mysterious story tells of a woman's encounter with a man who leads her away from the ordinary and into the unknown.

In the Yeats poem 'The Wild Swans at Coole,' we see a portrait of a placid lake where 59 wild swans are swimming peacefully. Yeats not only takes us to this lake, but also to an aching place inside the heart where we regret that time passes too quickly.

William Shakespeare's tragic drama 'King Lear' is among the most frequently read, performed and studied of Shakespeare's plays. Lear himself is widely considered to be one of Shakespeare's most complex, dynamic and interesting characters.

You've heard the word 'absurd,' but did you know it was a type of theatre? Watch this video to see how the absurdity of World War II helped promote the Theatre of the Absurd.

In this lesson, we will examine Saadat Hasan Manto's satirical view of the partition of India and Pakistan in his short story, 'Toba Tek Singh.' We will examine the author's life and the history of post-colonial India as it relates to this story.

The 1987 novel, ''Beloved'', won the Pulitzer Prize and led to Toni Morrison winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison based her novel of the horrors of slavery on a grisly true story. This lesson will cover the summary and analysis of ''Beloved''.

This lesson examines Puritanism in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 masterpiece, 'The Scarlet Letter.' See how the author uses Puritanism as a tool to criticize moral hypocrisy in all its forms.

Wallace Stevens's poem 'The Emperor of Ice-Cream' is famous (and infamous) for the challenge it offers to students. This lesson will bring it down to earth a little, and provide a framework for understanding and appreciating the poet's work.

Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story' may not have a zoo, but there's definitely a story, at least a story of sorts. In this lesson, we'll explore this example of the Theatre of the Absurd.