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Tag: nineteenth-century literature

127. (George Eliot)

This post will open with George Eliot and then drift, possibly to return. For a starting point, consider one of … More

Dickens, George Eliot, nineteenth-century literature, Robert Browning, Tennyson, Victorian Literature, waste, Weber, Wordsworth

74. (Émile Zola)

In the spirit of a reading journal, here’s the first of a two-part attempt to say something coherent about Zola’s … More

Auerbach, Classics, epic, French literature, George Eliot, Homer, nineteenth-century literature, Realism, the novel, Virgil, Zola
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