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bring on those brooding young men
“Conventionality is not morality, self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.” —Charlotte Bronte. How many young girls have imagined themselves as a lost Bronte sister, never forgiving themselves for having a childhood devoid … Continue reading
montaigne’s soul daughters
Michel de Montaigne invented what can be termed the “personal essay” at the dawn of the seventeenth-century. It was seen quickly by Marie de Gournay that Montaigne’s disdain for logic and linear progression was part of a larger attack on … Continue reading
A NORTHERN WIZARD: Writing For Love, Money & “The Great Unknowns”
Like Dickens and Balzac, he wrote because he could not help writing, but he did not think that the chief business of life was to be put into literature; and much as he appreciated his contemporary fame, he does not appear to have cared … Continue reading
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TRUTH AS COMEDY: FIDDLER ON JANE AUSTEN’S ROOF
Some critics describe Jane Austen’s works as novels of social comedy. When she wrote Pride and Prejudice she was just twenty-one years old. Her literary life was comprised between 1786 and 1817. A characteristic for the eighteenth century was the … Continue reading
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JANE AUSTEN: Pride & Prejudice Over The Finkler Question
…Howard Jacobson grew up in working-class Manchester, to a father who worked as a children’s entertainer and who ran a market stall selling trinkets. Bright, bookish and intellectually ambitious, he studied English literature at Cambridge under the legendary F.R. Leavis. “I’m … Continue reading
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PRIDE before PLEASURE: ROMANCE As An Utterly Suspect Pretension
“À propos to novels, I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman; that mamma knew all her family very intimately; and that she herself is an old maid (I beg her pardon – I mean a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Charlotte Bronte, Coleridge, Fanny Burney, George Lewes, Hugo Petrus, Jane Austen, Kate Beaton, Maria Edgeworth, Mark Twain, Mary Russell Mitford, Michelle Kerns, Milton, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rev. A.G. Lestrange, Robert Morrison, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Lawrence, Tim Killick
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SHEDDING THOSE “TERRESTRIAL GARMENTS” TO THE BACK OF YOUR MIND
“But in the anxiety of the second half of the eighteenth century, the fear of madness grew at the same time as the dread of unreason: and thereby the two forms of obsession, leaning upon each other, continued to reinforce each other. … Continue reading
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