After John Boehner compared Sen. Ted Cruz to Lucifer, I went looking through “Paradise Lost” to find passages that would apply. I found a particularly good one but, if you ask me, Cruz more resembles Blifil, Tom Jones’s nemesis.
Tag Archives: Henry Fielding
Ted Cruz as Lucifer, “Squat Like a Toad”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bram Stoker, Dracula, John Boehner, John Milton, Julius Caesar, Lucifer, Paradise Lost, Peter King, politics, Presidential Primaries, Satan, Senate, Ted Cruz, Tom Jones, William Shakespeare Comments closed
Falling Out of Love with Tom Jones
I have fallen out of love with “Tom Jones.” One reason may be because of the author’s sense of entitlement.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged class entitlement, class resentment, Peregrine Pickle, Roderick Random, Tobias Smollett, Tom Jones Comments closed
Reading Novels for Moral Instruction
“Tom Jones” teaches how to raise adolescents. And how not to.
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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, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Emma, Great Expectations, 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
Sexual Misconduct in the Classics
A sexual misconduct course required of all employees got me thinking of problematic situations in the books that I teach.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "The Lover: A Ballad", "Written in a Lady's Prayer Book", Aphra Behn, Bacchae, Charlotte Bronte, Euripides, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, John Wilmot, Lucille Clifton, Rape, Rover, Sense and Sensibility, sexual assault, sexual harassment, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 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 Charles Dickens, Clarissa, Comedy, couples comedy, 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
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, David Copperfield, Francis Hodgson Burnett, George Eliot, Golden Bowl, Harper Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 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
Lit’s Ten Most Sensitive Guys
To match my 10 strongest literary women characters, here are my 10 most sensitive male characters.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Charles Dickens, Cormac McCarthy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, James Baldwin, Jane Austen, John Milton, John Steinbeck Comments closed
