I’ve always been a fan of the gothic to some extent, and I really enjoy the way that the group presented their differences between Terror and Horror. Writing up terror, I think, is something much harder to do than displaying horror. With horror, it’s directly brutal and we all know what that is: war, mutilation, [...]
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The Gothic and Evelina
Posted in Uncategorized on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Man of Crying
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Feeling, feeling! I mean. (He started crying, so I had to give him his proper sobriquent … I found this word at the beginning of the term and I’m still enjoying it. Like saying smock. Smock, smock, sobriquent, smock. Spock!). This story reminds me a tiny bit of… mmm… well, yes, I mentioned it in [...]
Bluestocking Literature
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Fascinating stuff, Bluestocking Literature. One of the questions in class was whether or not this was pedagological material, or if Scott lost her audience by making it too philosopihcal. Well, I rather think that Scott was trying to teach the wider world something by pushing her entire manifesto onto folk (116-117), and she ends it [...]
Alright, Fantomina and Pamela, all mixed up in one sweet ball
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Which we shall hurl through the iron gates of something or other… Heh… imagine that. “Let us roll all our sweetness and all our strength into one ball, dearie, and throw it through something. That, by the way, is a sexual pun. Didja like it? Huh? Huh?” Ohh, Marvell, you crack me up… but that’s [...]
A Flower for Behn
Posted in Uncategorized on October 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I must ask Ms. Woolf one day if she wanted to strew flowers on Behn’s grave because she was one of the first great writers, to her knowledge, or whether or not it was something else. Or both…
But let’s have a small chat about inequality, she we? The financial side of matters. Like all things, [...]
Moll Flanders, was it?
Posted in Uncategorized on October 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As a glorified and rather extravagent tale of a Newgate felon, I think Defoe doesn’t do too badly (mayhap because almost all the tales are glorified and extravagent). I was leafing over the Appendixes in the back and didn’t really find anything I wanted to read, except for the part on Academies. I suppose to [...]
A Very Ridiculous Newgate Story
Posted in Uncategorized on September 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Forgive me for this – it was too tempting to start off on a completely mad foot. It might be, in one or two cases, a bit far-fetched, but I figure that if there are people like Captain John Porteus who abuse power, why not just make a story out of someone else who abuses [...]
