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The Film Doctor (Free subscription) | yesterday
In this narcissistic age of Reality TV , Black Friday , melancholy war-based video games , gender-biased oppression at home, kids returning to the nest, and Zombie buildings , it is important to give thanks for ---inventive new ways to film people being thrown from windshields, ---new websurfing and Twitter techniques, --- Blazing Saddles , --- drawing , --- Robert Altman , ---dystopic vampire films...
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Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
When an article of mine looking at the role of Africa, Caribbean and South Asian troops in the British army during the two World Wars was published on Remembrance Sunday, some people criticised me for “re-writing history in favour of the BME community. So I thought I’d see what the BNP had to say on the subject, by way of comparison. To be totally honest, I hoped to find ammunition for...
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BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
More scholar books with Brontë mentions: The Female Gothic New Directions Edited by Diana Wallace and Andrew Smith Palgrave Macmillan 12 Nov 2009 9780230222717 240 pages This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the...
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Fast Company Now (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
George Eliot. Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell (the three Bronte sisters). It has been more than a century since the likes of Mary Ann Evans and the Bronte sisters have had to disguise their gender in order to be considered worthy of a place in the literary firmament. But are they worthy? Apparently not. A little more than a decade ago, an unknown author decided with her publisher that in order for her...
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The Plashing Vole (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
As George Eliot wrote, 'the world outside books is not a happy place' (or something similar). It's great inside though, and I've just taken delivery of another consignment. A wall is rising around my desk… Rubio and Waterston's Norton critical edition of Anne of Green Gables ; Lauter and Fitzgerald's anthology Literature, Class and Culture (rather too American for my plans, but fascinating anyway);...
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Mel Menzies Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
"Publishing takes men more seriously than women; female writing is regarded as second tier,” Lionel Shriver says in a Daily Telegraph article on sexism in the world of books. Ms Shriver, born Margaret Ann Shriver, is an American journalist, and author of the acclaimed novel, We Need To Talk About Kevin. Having disliked her female name and changed it to a masculine one at the age of fifteen,...
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Reading the Past (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Sheramy Bundrick, author of Sunflowers (Avon A, October) and proprietor of the blog Van Gogh's Chair , is stopping by today as part of her blog tour. I'll be posting a review of her debut historical novel tomorrow. Visit her website at http://www.sheramybundrick.com/ . Welcome, Sheramy! Van Gogh, Reader of Novels By Sheramy Bundrick Most people know Vincent van Gogh as a prolific artist — over...
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POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
by Julia Buckley I had feared that this would be a mostly green autumn because of our cool summer (I'm not sure what led me to believe that). But the autumn is beautiful and colorful this year, and I took a little neighborhood tour with my camera to capture proof of that assertion. Enjoy my visuals with some famous words about autumn. "There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may...
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Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Goth side of a realist master: Emma Garman admires George Eliot’s novella about a man cursed with psychic powers.
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
I had not intended to boast about this recent accomplishment, but Thursday's quote of the day in the New York Times has provoked me. The quote is: "Can you any longer read Henry James or George Eliot? Do you have the patience?" The quote is from Maryanne Wolf, a professor of child development at Tufts University, in a new story about the current consensus that the book is outdated and publishers...
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Critical Mass (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
"Can you any longer read Henry James or George Eliot? Do you have the patience?" asks Tufts professor Maryanne Wolf, who is also the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain . The context is a New York Times story on how publishers are tweaking books video components to make "vooks" that they say are more audience-friendly than regular books. My...
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rashbre central (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
I accidentally strayed onto Facebook a couple of days ago, mainly because I was clearing down some of the applications that seem to create repeats of my messages. I think I deleted around forty so-called applications that had somehow installed in my Facebook. How careless of me. Anyway, I also stumbled onto this little quiz from the BBC about books. Apparently the average person has read six of these....
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JSBlog (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Immortal Longings: FH Myers and the Victorian Seach for Life after Death . Trevon Hamilton, Imprint Academic Launch: Thursday 8th October, 2009, at Joel Segal Books (over a glass of wine), 6.30pm-8pm, with a short presentation by the author. E-mail or phone us if you'd like an invitation. This is the first full-length biography of Frederic WH Myers, unjustly neglected Victorian classicist, poet and...
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infinite thØught (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
[Thanks (?!) to RobDP for this] In the latest issue of the perennially depressing THE, there is a whimsical piece about the 'sins' of the university. Some bloke named Terence Kealey, who is the vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, wrote this: LUST Clark Kerr, the president of the University of California from 1958 to 1967, used to describe his job as providing sex for the students, car...
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