As an Assistant Professor of English and Humanities, Dr. Kayla Walker-Edin is more than qualified to tell us what we should read when we’re not reading our humanities assignments or writing our Christ and Culture journals.
1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Following two storylines, Gwendolen Harleth and Daniel Deronda struggle to discover the values that will give their lives meaning.
2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
This is a coming-of-age novel about an orphaned girl’s struggles and how she overcomes them.
3. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Two childhood lovers, Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, grow up on the Yorkshire Moors, but when Catherine marries another man, Edgar Linton, Heathcliff attempts to take revenge on the entire Linton and Earnshaw families.
4. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Woolf writes about how women during her lifetime were not taken seriously when they were writing fiction. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction
5. A collection of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry (preferably read on a beach, in Spain)
From viewing nature as beautiful yet terrifying on the tallest Alpine mountain “Mont Blanc” to Shelley’s unconventional views of love in “Love’s philosophy,” what could be better than reading Romantic poetry?