My memoir continued, this time looking at my relationship with Julia during our grad school years in Atlanta.
Tag Archives: Country Wife
Early Scenes from a Marriage
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The Trap of Toxic Masculinity
Toxic masculinity is defining the Trump administration. Authors such as William Wycherley and Adrienne Rich recognize the dangers.
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How Toxic Masculinity Imprisons Men
Those men who are embracing toxic masculinity make themselves vulnerable since it’s so easy to deflate them. Lady Montagu pointed this out in an 18th century poem.
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When a Novel Affected Clock Sales
Friday I have lots of thoughts about the Congressional hearings on Donald Trump’s January 6 coup attempt, which opened last night, and am working up a post that references Milton’s rebel angels. I’ll end this week, however, on a lighter note, an interesting footnote that my English professor son alerted me to. Apparently, Laurence Sterne’s […]
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Trump Scandal as Comedy of Manners
White House scandals are coming into the open. William Wycherley could write a Restoration comedy about it all.
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A Literary History of the Insult “Cuck”
“Cuck” has become a favorite insult amongst alt-right types. In today’s post I trace literary references to cuckolds going back to Chaucer.
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Women Battling the Marriage Plot
Although men got the quest plot while women were relegated to the marriage plot in the 18th century, a number of women writers found imaginative ways to circumvent it. Among these were Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
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