Debate Between A Retired Teacher Of English & An Enthusiastic Student On SALLY ROONEY

So large and so significant is English as a literature that you never really lose sight…

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” Can Socialists Be Happy?”: Why Does Utopia Not Work?

I have just been reading Orwell’s essay entitled “Can Socialists Be Happy”?” it sounds a challenging…

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Mary Shelley’S “FRANKENSTEIN”: The Creation Myth Developed By Cultural Marxism.

Between the eighties and nineties I was not much involved with academic life. When I returned…

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Filming The Alps In Words: Frankenstein

FROM PICTURESQUE TO SUBLIME: MARY SHELLEY “The next day we pursued our journey upon mules; and…

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“Him Who First Described What Picturesque Beauty Was”: Jane Austen And William Gilpin (2)

Marianne’s sensitivity to the beauty of the landscape (see post “Jane Austen and the Picturesque”) shows…

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Whilst Browsing: A Note On Dostoevsky’s Demons

“In the nineteenth century Russia under the influence of their progressive parents, a generation of educated…

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On The Picturesque: Jane Austen

From Sense and Sensibility “Edward returned to them with fresh admiration of the surrounding country; in…

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Making The Novel Romantic

From Charlotte Bronte responding to G. H. Lewes (respected Victorian critic to become George Eliot’s partner)…

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Catherine Of “Wuthering Heights”

“I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or…

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