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An 1853 review of “Villette”

From The Examiner (London, England), Saturday, February 5, 1853; Issue 2349 An excerpt: “The majority [of the characters] are pleasant and love-worthy people … But Lucy Snowe deals now and then in needlessly tragical apostrophes. … and in the last page of

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An 1853 review of “Villette”

From The Examiner (London, England), Saturday, February 5, 1853; Issue 2349 An excerpt: “The majority [of the characters] are pleasant and love-worthy people … But Lucy Snowe deals now and then in needlessly tragical apostrophes. … and in the last page of

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Bears in All the Year Round

Here is an article directly following a chapter of Great Expectation entitled “In Praise of Bears.” Enjoy!

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Bears in All the Year Round

Here is an article directly following a chapter of Great Expectation entitled “In Praise of Bears.” Enjoy!

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Jordan Stein’s “Silly Theory”

Jordan Stein’s “Silly Theory” gives us a very different version of the social experience of theory, or theory’s reception than does the Nicolas Dames piece Danielle posted – interesting to compare them.

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Jordan Stein’s “Silly Theory”

Jordan Stein’s “Silly Theory” gives us a very different version of the social experience of theory, or theory’s reception than does the Nicolas Dames piece Danielle posted – interesting to compare them.

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Dames on the “Theory Generation”

Here is the Nick Dames essay in N + 1 on the “Theory Generation.” True, the argument that we can trace the ideas of writers like Jonathan Franzen or Jeffrey Eugenides to their theory-immersed Liberal Arts days in the early 1980’s is

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Dames on the “Theory Generation”

Here is the Nick Dames essay in N + 1 on the “Theory Generation.” True, the argument that we can trace the ideas of writers like Jonathan Franzen or Jeffrey Eugenides to their theory-immersed Liberal Arts days in the early 1980’s is

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Ridiculous Villette Trailer

This appears to have been made by some students, who didn’t seem to care very much about what the book is actually about. I thought it was funny.  

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Ridiculous Villette Trailer

This appears to have been made by some students, who didn’t seem to care very much about what the book is actually about. I thought it was funny.  

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CBBC’s Horrible Histories: Victorian Inventions

CBBC’s Horrible Histories: Victorian Inventions

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CBBC’s Horrible Histories: Victorian Inventions

CBBC’s Horrible Histories: Victorian Inventions

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(new?) historicist ice cream?

what do YOU think!

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(new?) historicist ice cream?

what do YOU think!

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David Shields, Reality Hunger

On David Shields’s Reality Hunger, drawn to our notice by Sierra: A Christen Lorentzen piece contextualizing Reality Hunger a little in the “fact-checking” framework and a New Yorker round-up of responses to Shields’s argument about the “anti-novel.” Anyone who has

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David Shields, Reality Hunger

On David Shields’s Reality Hunger, drawn to our notice by Sierra: A Christen Lorentzen piece contextualizing Reality Hunger a little in the “fact-checking” framework and a New Yorker round-up of responses to Shields’s argument about the “anti-novel.” Anyone who has

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