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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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BLOOD FLOWERS & HEADS ON THE DOOR
A genre of fiction which first gained popularity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the epistolary novel is a form in which most or all of the plot is advanced by the letters or journal entries of one or more … Continue reading
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Tagged Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Dickens, Duncan Quinn, E. Derek Taylor, Ellen Moody, George Butte, George Eliot, Hans Baldung, Heather Carroll, Henry Fuseli, James Boswell, Jane Austen, Jane Collier, Jocelyn Harris, John Stevenson, John William Waterhouse, Jolene Zigarovich, Jonathan Swift, kathryn Steele, Leslie Stephen, Lisa Zunshine, Margaret D. Carroll, Mary Davys, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Saskia Wickham, Sean Beam, Sean Bean, Sigmund Freud, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov
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PURITY OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS SOUL
Charles Dickens’s novels are far more crowded with orphaned children than the usefulness of having such malleable and pathetic agents in a work of fiction would seem to demand. In ”David Copperfield” , for example, Em’ly, Traddles, the Orfling, Mrs. … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Clive James, Clivejames.com, David Copperfield, Dickens, Dickens David Copperfield, G.K. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Humphrey House, Jeremy Bentham, John Carey, Philip Horne, www.victorianstation.com
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LOOK AT NOTHING BUT SEE EVERYTHING
Andre Gide, a minor novelist, once called the “Comedie Humaine” of Balzac a great fresco crumbling to pieces a little more all the time. Given that he is not entirely wrong, it could be extrapolated today that the novel as … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Andre Gide, Balzac, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, Dickens, George Orwell, Hablot K. Browne, Honore de Balzac, John Forster, Oliver Twist, Phiz, Robert William Buss, Shakespeare, Victorian England, Victorian literature, William James, William Shakespeare
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SCROOGE AND A MAYAN CHRISTMAS
When the Spanish conquered Guatemala in the 1500’s they overcame a series of independent highland tribes known as the Mayans. The conquered Mayans were allowed to speak their language, but their religion was banned and,in the inquisition style of Spain, … Continue reading
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Tagged A Christmas Carol, Carl marx, Charles Dickens, Dickens, Engels, Geoffrey Clarfield, Maximon, mayan culture, mayans, National Post, Peter Foster, Robert Heilbroner, Saint Simon, Sherman Howard, Steve Wilson, The Worldly Philosophers
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