Working with my grandson’s during a meltdown brought to mind the strategy used to calm Tattycoram in “Little Dorrit.”
Tag Archives: Charles Dickens
Count to Five-and-Twenty, Tattycoram
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Dickens Returned Christmas to Its Roots
Dickens’ “Christmas Carol” returned the Christmas celebration to its medieval folk roots.
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Clean Air Is Bad for the Nation?!
Republicans complaining about clean air regulations recall the Coketown mill owners in Dickens’ “Hard Times.”
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Social Media Invades the Classics
Imagining literary characters using social media opens up new insights into a work.
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10 Famous Fetish Objects in Lit
Literature is filled with fetish objects that take on outsized significance to various characters.
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Comedy & Sentiment, a Potent Mixture
Literature that moves the heart seems opposed to comedy, but sometimes they work together.
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Women Making Sense of Their Lives
The female Bildungsroman arose to help women make sense of their lives in the feminist era.
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