America’s relationship with Trump has been toxic. Jane Eyre shows us how to exit such relationships and Kamala Harris follows suit.
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Kamala Harris Can Be Our Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre, Teacher of the Month
To honor teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week, I look at teaching as it occurs in “Jane Eyre” and “Villette.”
Soliloquies Changed Us Fundamentally
Hamlet’s soliloquies changed the way we see ourselves and others and led the way to the novel.
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My Brilliant Friend, Cure for Loneliness?
The child perspective in Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend” creates a special bond with the reader.
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Anti-Vaxxers Ignore the Past
Anti-vaxxers should read 19th century novels, which describe high mortality rates
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Woolf and On Board Lit Conversations
To move from Jo Nesbo’s Nordic Noir to Virginia Woolf is to experience emotional whiplash.
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Great Teachers Inspire Great Teachers
This being Teacher Appreciation Week, I nominate Charlotte Bronte’s Miss Temple as exemplary teacher.
Austen Has Some of Lit’s Best Mean Girls
I survey the meaning of some of my favorite literary mean girls.
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Does Lit Lead to Illicit Sex?
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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