I now have a possible explanation for last week’s heart episode. Henry Fielding’s “Tom Jones” helped lead me to it.
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Tag Archives: Tom Jones
Defending Homer against Plato
Plato’s attacks on Homer have to do with the bard’s focus earthly concerns rather than higher ones. Following Plato’s prescriptions, however, will not produce very interesting poetry.
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Ted Cruz as Lucifer, “Squat Like a Toad”
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.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bram Stoker, Dracula, Henry Fielding, John Boehner, John Milton, Julius Caesar, Lucifer, Paradise Lost, Peter King, politics, Presidential Primaries, Satan, Senate, Ted Cruz, 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, Henry Fielding, Peregrine Pickle, Roderick Random, Tobias Smollett 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, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Marcel Proust, Prophet's Hair, Rape of the Lock, Salman Rushie, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tell-Tale Heart 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, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, John Wilmot, Lucille Clifton, Rape, Rover, Sense and Sensibility, sexual assault, sexual harassment, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Comments closed