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Revisiting the Past
Many years ago, when I was a newly-minted undergraduate, way out of my depth at Cambridge University, I was given a play called Danton’s Tod by Georg Büchner to read. The name Büchner won’t mean a lot… more →
Tales from the Reading Room
Book Review ~ "Jane's Fame" by Claire Harman
Janeite Deb wrote 2 weeks ago: Many of us who grew up in the late 40s – early 50s had our Jane Austen force-fed to us in high schoo … more →
in lieu of an Ossian post . . . .
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Dave Mazella wrote 4 weeks ago: ["Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of French Heroes" 1802 by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson; image … more →
The Literary Encyclopedia
Katy wrote 1 month ago: The Literary Encyclopedia The Literary Encyclopedia is a growing reference work compiled by internat … more →
Revisiting the Past
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litlove wrote 1 month ago: Many years ago, when I was a newly-minted undergraduate, way out of my depth at Cambridge University … more →
"Jane's Fame" ~ the Reviews
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Janeite Deb wrote 3 months ago: The reviews are in on Claire Harman’s Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World … more →
Stefan Zweig
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litlove wrote 3 months ago: I managed to mess up my book reading schedule and haven’t read Stefan Zweig’s The Post Office Girl f … more →
Subversive Historian - 03/20/09
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Gabriel San Blogman wrote 4 months ago: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Back in the day on March 20th, 1857, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s C … more →
A Woman's Place
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litlove wrote 4 months ago: Right, we’re going away for the weekend so I am allowing myself one hour absolutely no more in which … more →
Externalizing internal dialog with Emily Bronte
gotheca wrote 4 months ago: “Nelly, I am Heathcliff—he’s always, always in my mind—not as a pleasure, an … more →
Aspiring Writer Inspired by Dublin Writers Museum
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pacejmiller wrote 4 months ago: The Dublin Writers Museum is a must visit for visiting aspiring writers I just got back yesterday fr … more →
Two Lives
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litlove wrote 4 months ago: I’ve got a little backlog of reviews to do here. But you know how it is when a book you’ve just fini … more →
Pulp Zombie Fiction: How Zombies Shambled into Pop Culture
beckyminx wrote 4 months ago: It’s generally accepted that horrors iconic monsters have a long and colorful literary histor … more →
On Emily Dickinson
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litlove wrote 5 months ago: The Sister, by Paola Kaufmann, is a swift-paced and deceptively easy to read novel that ends up ling … more →
Sexing The Cherry
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litlove wrote 5 months ago: It’s quite shocking to think that I first read this book back in 1990 when I was a mere 21 years old … more →
And Again, Love
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litlove wrote 5 months ago: Ah, love. It is, I think, the most complex of all human emotions, the least comprehensible. Anger, … more →
Austen's Manuscripts
Janeite Deb wrote 5 months ago: Later Manuscripts [The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen], edited by Janet Todd and Lind … more →
Getting Published
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litlove wrote 5 months ago: I tend to think that the difficulty most people encounter when trying to get published is tied to th … more →
Last Reviews of 2008
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litlove wrote 6 months ago: Blogging friends, it has been a busy Christmas as ever, but I’m hoping now to catch up on my last re … more →
authors and their simplifiers
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Dave Mazella wrote 7 months ago: While we’re on the subject of Kant, Mikhail Emelianov at Perverse Egalitarianism has a nice po … more →
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