Recs if you like Dr. Faustus...
PhD’s Guide to Pre-1900 British Lit
Your pre-1900 British & Irish lit starter pack from a bonafide English PhD
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The Big Bad Luddite Novel*
ANTI: fascism, ai, nfts, Big Tech, billionaires, surveillance states, optimization, algorithms, bot farms, technofeudalism, enshittification, exploitation, extractionism, planned obsolescence PRO: organized labor, punk, analog, solidarity, free speech, friction, degrowth, experimentation, right to privacy, right to repair, diy, material process, mutual aid, ecological living, the human hand, the human mind
*Short stories welcome. Looking for nonfiction? Check out The Big Bad Luddite List.
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horrific villains in fiction
inspired by me watching youtube videos about literary analysis of villains, here is a list full of books in which i believe their villains to be absolutely ghastly and horrifying; bloody and abusive, terrorizing and killing. if you have any to recommend, please put them in the comments! i'd love to make this list large!
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everything is faust
deals with the devil throughout literature (in short, faust is everywhere)
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A Deal With the Devil
Books relating to the Faust legend or Faustian Bargains. Morally ambiguous characters. Getting what you asked for, but at what price?
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English Renaissance Literature
Very niche category but if there are any English Literature students wondering what they will be studying for a little bit this might be useful.
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Books in “ a little history of literature”
added as i read the book
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