In my latest life in literature installment, I look at the impact of D.H. Lawrence on my college relationship with my future wife.
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Tag Archives: John Fowles
On Lawrence and a Sexual Awakening
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Ars Poetica", "Hummingbird", "Prayer for My Daughter", "Tortoise Shout", Archibald MacLeish, D. H. Lawrence, French Lieutenant's Woman, Man Who Died, Marriage, sexuality, W. B. Yeats, Weddings Comments closed
Austen-Like Dating During Covid
Covid is disrupting our dating lives but may as a result have an up-side. Kundera, John Fowles, and Jane Austen explain.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged COVID-19, French Lieutenant's Woman, Jane Austen, Milan Kundera, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Relationships, sexuality, Slowness Comments closed
The Declining English Major
An English prof, sensing obsolescence, turns to “In Memoriam” (also Fowles, Wordsworth & Arnold).
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Dover Beach", Alan Bennett, Alfred Lord Tennyson, English major, French Lieutenant's Woman, History Boys, Humanities, In Memoriam, Intimations of Immortality, Matthew Arnold, William Wordsworth Comments closed
Desire Intensified by Separation
In my current living relationship, I see my wife for only short periods every two or three months. A passage in John Fowles’s “French Lieutenant Woman” is helping me get through the long absences.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Eroticism, French Lieutenant's Woman, long distance relationships, Repression, sexual desire, sexuality Comments closed
Castro As Lovelace, Knight As Clarissa
The dueling statements of Michelle Knight and her Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro were like a novel with multiple points of view.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Ariel Castro, Clarissa, Cleveland kidnapping, Collector, Michelle Knight, Samuel Richardson Comments closed