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.”
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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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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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Illness in 19th Century Lit
19th century literature is filled with images of illness. Reading it should make us grateful to the advances in medical science.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bleak House, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, epidemics, fathers and sons, Francis Hodgson Burnett, George Eliot, Illness, Ivan Turgenev, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Middlemarch, North and South, pandemics, Secret Garden Comments closed
