Spring 2017
Vassar Critical Journal 2017 Editorial Board
Introduction by Dr. Katie Gemmill
Interrogating the Concept of Hell in Taylor’s ‘Upon a Spider Catching a Fly’ by Anna Wiley
Intimacy and Puritan Frameworks: Resistant/Resonant Subjectivity in Anne Bradstreet’s Poetry by Nicholas M. Barone
Redefining Female Identity: Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Jessie in ‘Night Mother by Rachel Altemose
‘Habitual Currents’: The Leitmotif of Waves in To the Lighthouse by Elena Schultz
‘The Pathology of the Skin’ in Tender Is the Night by Elena Janney
Protecting Homosociality: Nicholas as Servant Exemplar and Jealous Lover in A Woman Killed with Kindness by John Michael Rezes
A Tale of Two Sisters: A Modernist Collaboration Between Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell by Kayla Schwab
Illuminating Lies: What Deception Reveals by Leah Cates
Protesting Reason: William Melvin Kelley’s Absurdist War on a Philosophy of Violence by Micah Katz-Zeiger
Cover art by Brooke Thomas ’17