Some in the GOP want to bring back child labor. Kingsolver, Dickens and Browning weigh in on the subject.
Tag Archives: David Copperfield
Biden-Trump Invites Dickens Comparisons
If one thinks of the 2020 election in Dickensian terms, several novels come to mind.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged 2020 election, Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol, Donald Trump, Hard Times, Joe Biden, Martin Chuzzlewit, Oliver Twist Comments closed
Mike Pence=Elmer Gantry + Uriah Heep
Columnist George Will calls Mike Pence a cross between Elmer Gantry and Uriah Heep. I see the two and raise to a Dante sycophant and Shakespeare’s Cassius.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, Dante, Elmer Gantry, Inferno, Julius Caesar, Mike Pence, Sinclair Lewis, William Shakespeare 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, Charles Dickens, 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", Charles Dickens, 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
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 Charles Dickens, 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
