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Tag Archives: Victorianism
The Experience of Reading Poetry Part 2: “vex one like dronings of the shuttles at task”
In my last post I discussed Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “Lady Lilith” and how the experience of reading the lines actually mirrors the poem’s content. Another excellent example of a poet using the form, in this case repetition and specific diction, … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, Victorianism
Tagged Augusta Webster, experience of poetry, Pedagogy, poetry, Victorianism
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“in your sphere”
By Chapman & Hall – Heritage Auction Galleries, Public Domain, Link Had Trotty dreamed? Or, are his joys and sorrows, and the actors in them, but a dream; himself a dream; the teller of this tale a dreamer, waking but … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Victorianism
Tagged Charles Dickens, Chirstmas, Holidays, New Year's Eve, Resolutions, Victorianism
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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
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Tagged Pedagogy, religion, Romanticism, Victorianism
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Remember, remember . . .
John Constable, A View of Hampstead Heath , with Figures Around a Bonfire The first tall flame from Rainbarrow sprang into the sky, attracting all eyes that had been fixed on the distant conflagrations back to their own attempt in … Continue reading
The Return of the Chapbook?
There were two primary publishing models for the Victorian novel. There was the triple-decker approach that published novels in three parts. This allowed lending libraries like the highly influential (and profitable) Mudie’s to loan out the same book to three … Continue reading
“Romantic and Familiar”
I don’t tend to like most Dickens adaptations. Or rather, most Dickens adaptations are fine, they often contain excellent casts of veteran character actors in beautiful costumes, but they always ring a little hollow for me. That is, of course, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, Alphonso Cuarón, Charles Dickens, film, Victorianism
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“He speaks like a drunken man”
The title of this entry comes from Oscar Wilde’s Salome. It is a line spoken by Herodias directed at Iokanaan, or John the Baptist. It is an important line, for it captures the hysteric, maddening quality of utterance in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adaptation, film, Oscar Wilde, theatre, theory, Victorianism
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Why I teach and study Victorian literature
My students think they know Victorian literature. They have impressions of it as dull, as overly concerned with decorum, as fantasias of the upper-classes in elegantly appointed drawing rooms drinking tea and eating cucumber sandwiches. Few of my students who … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, epistemology, Matthew Arnold, Pedagogy, Realism, Tennyson, theory, Victorianism
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“Luminous as an autumn sunset”
I’ve been steadily making my way through my dissertation and I hope to have it in draft by the end of the summer. I’ve got over half of my chapters in approved final form (or as final as they can … Continue reading
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