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Tag: Victorian Literature

183. (J.R.R. Tolkien)

I don’t think it’s much use denying that Tolkien’s mythology is in some ways racist: growing from Anglo-Saxon ideologies of … More

D.H.Lawrence, Fantasy Literature, Influence, J.R.R. Tolkien, Modernity, Victorian Literature

160. (William Gaddis)

Charles Dickens appears as a character in Gaddis’ The Recognitions, published in 1955, and it is hard not to believe that … More

American Literature, Charles Dickens, the novel, Victorian Literature, William Gaddis

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

105. (Thomas Carlyle)

A featherless bipedal puzzle, but with wings: that Carlyle seems a distinctly queer, yet central, Victorian voice; that the word … More

Anthropology, Erving Goffman, Maurice Godelier, Queer Theory, Sartor Resartus, Thomas Carlyle, Victorian Literature

77. (R.H. Hutton)

One of the chief differences between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century voices of critical prose is that the former wrote for the … More

Carlyle, Dickens, George Eliot, Julia Wedgwood, Literary Criticism, Matthew Arnold, R.H. Hutton, Tennyson, Victorian Literature, Victorian Poetry, Victorians
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