So large and so significant is English as a literature that you never really lose sight…
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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…
Continue Reading“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…
Continue ReadingWhilst Browsing: A Note On Dostoevsky’s Demons
“In the nineteenth century Russia under the influence of their progressive parents, a generation of educated…
Continue ReadingOn The Picturesque: Jane Austen
From Sense and Sensibility “Edward returned to them with fresh admiration of the surrounding country; in…
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From Charlotte Bronte responding to G. H. Lewes (respected Victorian critic to become George Eliot’s partner)…
Continue ReadingCatherine Of “Wuthering Heights”
“I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or…
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