An Introduction

Hello!

In a meeting about an honors thesis months ago, the idea was brought up to make a blog to chronicle articles, thoughts, and drafts of a cross-disciplinary thesis. The goal was set to make information accessible to all parties, as well as to catalog what is actually occurring while designing this work.

So what is being done? I am writing a thesis concerning the impact of Reagan and H.W. Bush era economics on current and then-current literature. In essence, how did a largely liberal artistic base react to a conservative economic policy? How did the death of the Fordian system affect Republicans as well? The demonization of Reagonomics is to be studied from the radical liberal to the black tie conservative, gauging cultural reactions through the literature created on all sides of the cultural divide.

And a divide it is! The goal of the thesis is a 35-60pg concentrated analysis of this cultural and economic shift. None of this would be possible without the gracious support of Stefanie Sobelle, Yahya Madra, and the English and Economic Departments of Gettysburg College. Thanks as well go to Professors Flynn and Goldberg, the current chair and the Honors Program director respectively.

So, this will be for fun and ideas. Reads of articles, analyses of things that may not fit into the general time frame, or other forms of media. PLEASE comment and email anything you think would be interesting, or would like commented on!

Thanks for reading!