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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 →

Tags: Austen Literary History & Criticism, Book Reviews, Essential Austen, Jane Austen, Publishing History, Claire Harman, Jane's Fame

in lieu of an Ossian post . . . . 7 comments

Dave Mazella wrote 4 weeks ago: ["Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of French Heroes" 1802 by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson; image … more →

Tags: David Mazella

The Literary Encyclopedia

Katy wrote 1 month ago: The Literary Encyclopedia The Literary Encyclopedia is a growing reference work compiled by internat … more →

Tags: Literature, English Literature, Authors, literary genres, Literary Works, Culture

Revisiting the Past12 comments

litlove wrote 1 month ago: Many years ago, when I was a newly-minted undergraduate, way out of my depth at Cambridge University … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Higher Education, Life Events, Reading, Writers, Review

"Jane's Fame" ~ the Reviews1 comment

Janeite Deb wrote 3 months ago: The reviews are in on Claire Harman’s Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World … more →

Tags: Book Reviews, News, Jane Austen, Austen Literary History & Criticism, Claire Harman, Jane's Fame

Stefan Zweig11 comments

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 →

Tags: Books, Literature, History, Writers

Subversive Historian - 03/20/093 comments

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 →

Tags: History, Race, Literature, Orange County, racism, Slavery, Uncle Tom, Civil War, Los Alamitos

A Woman's Place14 comments

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 →

Tags: Books, Family, Literature, Life Events, Culture, Reading, Review

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 →

Tags: character, Technique, Great Authors, Fiction Writing Advice, Writing Advice, Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Fiction Writing, Catherine

Aspiring Writer Inspired by Dublin Writers Museum1 comment

pacejmiller wrote 4 months ago: The Dublin Writers Museum is a must visit for visiting aspiring writers I just got back yesterday fr … more →

Tags: on writing, Travel, aspiring writer, Author, Bram Stoker, Career Change, Dracula, Dublin, Dublin City Hall

Two Lives14 comments

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 →

Tags: Books, Literature, Reading, History, Writers, Review

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 →

Tags: Cool, Horror, pop culture, zombies, zombie, Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Pulp, monsters

On Emily Dickinson21 comments

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 →

Tags: Books, Literature, Reading, Writers, Review

Sexing The Cherry9 comments

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 →

Tags: Books, Literature, Reading, Review

And Again, Love12 comments

litlove wrote 5 months ago: Ah, love. It is, I think, the most complex of all human emotions, the least comprehensible. Anger, … more →

Tags: Books, Literature, Reading, Relationships, Thoughts, Writers

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 →

Tags: Books, Jane Austen, Essential Austen, Literature, Later Manuscripts Cambridge Edition

Getting Published20 comments

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 →

Tags: Books, Relationships, writing, Literature, Publishing, Writers

Last Reviews of 20085 comments

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 →

Tags: Books, Literature, Reading, Writers, Review

authors and their simplifiers8 comments

Dave Mazella wrote 7 months ago: While we’re on the subject of Kant, Mikhail Emelianov at Perverse Egalitarianism has a nice po … more →

Tags: Philosophy, David Mazella


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