Literature is filled with fetish objects that take on outsized significance to various characters.
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Tag Archives: Charles Dickens
10 Famous Fetish Objects in Lit
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Alexander Pope, Edgar Allan Poe, Emma, Great Expectations, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Marcel Proust, Prophet's Hair, Rape of the Lock, Salman Rushie, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tell-Tale Heart, Tom Jones Comments closed
Comedy & Sentiment, a Potent Mixture
Literature that moves the heart seems opposed to comedy, but sometimes they work together.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Clarissa, Comedy, couples comedy, Henry Fielding, Henry MacKenzie, Jane Austen, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Man of Feeling, Old Curiosity Shop, Oscar Wilde, romantic comedy age of sensibility, Samuel Richardson, Sense and Sensibility, Thomas Hobbes, Tom Jones Comments closed
Women Making Sense of Their Lives
The female Bildungsroman arose to help women make sense of their lives in the feminist era.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged bildungsroman, David Copperfield, female bildungsroman, Franny and Zooey, Goethe, J. D. Salinger, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Comments closed
Top 10 Parent-Child Classics (Positive)
A top ten list of classics with positive depictions of parent-child relationships.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Mother to Son", David Copperfield, Francis Hodgson Burnett, George Eliot, Golden Bowl, Harper Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Fielding, Henry James, Huckleberry Finn, Langston Hughes, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Mark Twain, Parent-child relationships, Silas Marner, Tempest, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Jones, Uncle Tom's Cabin, William Shakespeare Comments closed
How Is Lit Useful? Let Me Count the Ways
A recent issue of “New Literary History” explores a number of ways that literature is useful.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Hard Times, Literary Theory, Lolita, reader response, utilitarianism, Vladimir Nabokov Comments closed
An Ideal Mother
When I think of a mother-son relationship that most matches my own, I think of Betsy Trotwood and David Copperfield.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged David Copperfield, Everything that Rises Must Converge, Flannery O'Connor, mothers and sons, Oedipus, Parenting, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Sophocles, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf Comments closed
Dickens, We Need You (and Also FDR)
With unemployment insurance set to run out next week, it’s time to invoke Charles Dickens’ “Christmas Carol.” FDR did so.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Christmas Carol, food stamp cuts, GOP, Paul Ryan, unemployment insurance Comments closed