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Tag Archives: Romanticism
Monk Maps!
We’re reading The Monk by Matthew Lewis in the Gothic Seminar class I’m teaching. Space is an important element in much Gothic fiction, and it is very significant in The Monk. I asked my students to draw maps or cross-sections … Continue reading
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Tagged Pegagogy, Romanticism, space and place, The Gothic, The Monk
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Poets on the Elgin Marbles, part I
This is part of a series of posts I began last year centered on the connections between the British Museum and the literature I teach and study. Other entries can be found under the “British Museum” tag. The Duveen Gallery … Continue reading
Posted in British Museum
Tagged British Museum, Empire, Lord Byron, poetry, Romanticism, Walter Pater
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Religion in the Classroom
As I mentioned previously, I’ve been attending a discussion group focused on teaching literature for some time. Last month it was my turn to choose our reading and I’ve picked Peter Kerry Powers’s excellent article “A Clash of Civilizations: Religious … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Uncategorized
Tagged Pedagogy, religion, Romanticism, Victorianism
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Tintern Abbey
I mentioned Wordsworth a fair bit in one of my recent entries. The major touchstone we kept coming back to in the 19th-century survey class I taught last semester was “Tintern Abbey.” More than any of his other poetic work, … Continue reading
Posted in Romanticism
Tagged Nature and Culture, Reference materials, Romanticism, William Wordsworth
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Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
I am an amateur gardener, and by amateur I mean novice. And by novice I mean newbie, and by newbie I mean, well, you get the point. I’ve recently begun working at the Temple Terrace Community Garden and it has … Continue reading
Learning to Listen to the Monster
Last week I went to see a rebroadcast of National Theatre Live’s production of Frankenstein. The play was adapted by from the novel by Nick Dear, and directed by Danny Boyle. It stars Johnny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch on … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, Romanticism, SF, theatre
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Is the plural of Ozymandias “Ozymandiases” or “Ozymandiai”?
Statue of Ramses II photo by Mujtaba Chohan via Wikimedia commons. Continuing the thread I began in my last entry about the British Museum, here is a photo of a statue of Ramses II from one of the Museum’s main … Continue reading
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