Tag Archives: Henry Fielding

Falling Out of Love with Tom Jones

By Robin Bates | Published: December 9, 2014

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

By Robin Bates | Published: November 7, 2014

“Tom Jones” teaches how to raise adolescents. And how not to.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged adolescence, Moral Instruction, teaching, Tom Jones | Comments closed

10 Famous Fetish Objects in Lit

By Robin Bates | Published: November 6, 2014

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

By Robin Bates | Published: November 3, 2014

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

By Robin Bates | Published: October 8, 2014

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)

By Robin Bates | Published: March 25, 2014

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

By Robin Bates | Published: September 16, 2013

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

Love Life, Say No to Christian Masochism

By Robin Bates | Published: May 26, 2013

Tom Jones gives us a healthier vision of Christianity than that which puts all the emphasis on worldly suffering.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Christian suffering, Christianity, masochism, Tom Jones | Comments closed

Taking a Break from Politics

By Robin Bates | Published: April 24, 2013

Sometimes, like Mr. Hardcastle in “She Stoops to Conquer,” one needs a break from the world’s news.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged newspapers, Oliver Goldsmith, politics, She Stoops to Conquer | Comments closed

Tag Archives: Henry Fielding

Falling Out of Love with Tom Jones

Reading Novels for Moral Instruction

10 Famous Fetish Objects in Lit

Sexual Misconduct in the Classics

Comedy & Sentiment, a Potent Mixture

Top 10 Parent-Child Classics (Positive)

Lit’s Ten Most Sensitive Guys

Love Life, Say No to Christian Masochism

Taking a Break from Politics

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