Caroline Breashears
b. ????
Nationality: American
Historical Period: The 20th Century and Beyond
Caroline Breashears is a Professor of English at St. Lawrence University.
She studied English at Girton College, Cambridge, graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Arkansas, and earned her PhD at The University of Virginia. She has published scholarly articles on authors such as Adam Smith, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Ayn Rand, as well as a book about the memoirs of eighteenth-century scandalous women. She has also written for outlets such as the Reading Room, Law & Liberty, AdamSmithWorks, and AIER.
In The Reading Room:
- Areopagitica: Milton on the Tyranny of Licensing Books ()
- Jane Austen's Smackdown of the Cult of Sensibility ()
- Doing Justice to John Wick ()
- Moll Flanders and the Pursuit of Happiness ()
- Why Bones and All Leaves Readers Hungry ()
- Down for the Count: Restoring Dracula's Message about Liberty ()
- Mavericks: Soaring to New Heights with Pete Mitchell and David Hume ()
- Unpersuaded; or, Ten Ways to Lose an Austen Reader ()
- The Unimpeachable Politics of The Beggar's Opera ()
- Beyond the Hate: George Orwell's 1984 ()
- Addison's Cato: How a Dead Roman Brought Two Parties Together ()
- A Novel Education ()
- Scandalous Liaisons: Narratives about One Class for the Instruction of Others ()
- Jane Austen and the Perks of Imperfection ()
- The Education of Coriolanus Snow ()
- Frankenstein and the Wonder of Horror ()
- Why Marvel's Black Widow Would Love Mary Wollstonecraft ()
- The Fairy Godmother and the Invisible Hand: Jane Marcet's Economic Tales ()