Tag Archives: Stephenie Meyer

Does Lit Lead to Illicit Sex?

By Robin Bates | Published: August 25, 2020

Dante’s beautifully tragic account of Paolo and Francesca captures–as many great works do–the dangers of total absorption in a relationship.

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How Jane Eyre Is Not Twilight

By Robin Bates | Published: June 11, 2014

“Jane Eyre” provides a lesson in how to emerge whole from a toxic relationship.

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Using Twilight to Teach Antigone

By Robin Bates | Published: December 18, 2009

Having compared Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight yesterday with Frances Burney’s Evelina, I feel I owe my readers an apology and an explanation. The apology is that I violated one of my principles for the website and judged the book by the movie. All I’ve read of Twilight is the excerpt on amazon.com. If I sell the […]

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Comparing Evelina and Twilight

By Robin Bates | Published: December 17, 2009

We talked about the movie Twilight in the last gathering of my British Restoration and 18th Century Couples Comedy class. That and France Burney’s epistolary novel Evelina (1775). Hang on as I spell out the connection. If you don’t know about Twilight, then you are probably neither a teenager nor the parent of a teenager. […]

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