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Tag Archives: 19th century
“Giant propensitites” and “Calvinistic doctrines”: Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’ reviewed
Subjectivity is often hailed as the great modernist innovation in literature. To place the “I” at the centre, to consider life as interpretable only through the subject, the beholder, not the beheld, to be True – that is the modernist … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century, allusions, blind spots, book-review, books, Brontes, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Daphne du Maurier, David Copperfield, fiction, gaps, German, Jane Eyre, Literature, Mad Woman in the Attic, Mr Rochester, race, Rebecca, religion, Review, sexuality, subjectivity, Wide Sargasso Sea
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Eva an sich or The Living Treatise: Alasdair Gray’s ‘Poor Things’ revisited
January led me to Poor Things four years ago. Public health was very much the order of the day back then as Covid restrictions, about which and around which novels are now written (see Caledonia Road by Andrew O’Hagan) still … Continue reading
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Tagged 18 Park Circus, 19th century, A Loving Economy, Alasdair Gray, Archie McCandless, Bella Baxter, bios and zoe, C. S. Lewis, childhood, children, Duncan Wedderburn, emma-stone, film, Frankenstein, Genesis, Glasgow, Godwin Baxter, Lanark, Literature, magical realism, mark-ruffalo, Milton, novel, Paradise Lost, polyphony, Poor Things, population, Review, Victoria Blessington, West End, Willem Dafoe, Yorgos Lanthimos
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Gentlemanly pursuits and David Graeber’s ‘Bullshit Jobs’
Woodside Library has a “take a book, recommend a book shelf”. I’ve borrowed from it multiple times. The last time I did so, I picked up David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs and recommended North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. I had … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century, bullshit jobs, capitalism, David Graeber, dignity, Edith Wharton, ideology, Literature, Review, society, The Age of Innocence, UBI, universal basic income, work
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North and South: 19th-century doorstopper still bears the heft it once did
As far as Victorian novels go, I think North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell retains a degree of accessibility that many have shed in the intervening 150 years or so. The North/South divide lives on in the popular consciousness where … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century, bourgeoisie, Britain, capitalism, Collateral, Condition of England, Elizabeth Gaskell, liberty, Literature, Marx, money, North and South, Review, strikes, Thornton, trade, trade unionism, Victorian, wages
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