Republicans complaining about clean air regulations recall the Coketown mill owners in Dickens’ “Hard Times.”
Tag Archives: Charles Dickens
Clean Air Is Bad for the Nation?!
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Social Media Invades the Classics
Imagining literary characters using social media opens up new insights into a work.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charlotte Bronte, Gone with the Wind, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Margaret Mitchell, social media, Texts from Jane Eyre Comments closed
10 Famous Fetish Objects in Lit
Literature is filled with fetish objects that take on outsized significance to various characters.
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
