18th Century British Literature - A Journey to Enlightenment
Monday, December 3, 2012
Final thoughts
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Perhaps I should have called this late thoughts! Musing on 18th century literature I have such a wide variety of thoughts that I've ha...
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
Dystopian thoughts on a Utopian Novel
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As we continue to read Millennium Hall I keep noticing two things, the first of which is the fact that dystopian situations inextricabl...
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Sunday, November 4, 2012
The Brief but Important Role of the Countess in "The Female Quixote"
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One of the more frequently discussed characters presented by Charlotte Lennox in her novel The Female Quixote is the benevolent Countes...
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Sunday, October 28, 2012
No Mistakes in Nature - What Might J.J. Rousseau Say About Autism?
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Let me preface this blog post by saying that I am the father of four sons, two which have been diagnosed as being "severely autistic...
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Charlotte Lennox's Arabella & John Locke's Theories
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In Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote her protagonist, Lady Arabella, has strange ideas about people's behavior and circumstance...
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Saturday, October 6, 2012
Woman like spirits - Pope's Ideas in "The Rape of the Lock"
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"For when the Fair [women] in all their pride expire / To their first Elements the Souls retire...." (Pope 1:57-8). In this quot...
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Has political satire fallen into decline?
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As we continue our discussion in class about Jonathan Swift and his peers, Pope and Dryden, etc. It has occurred to me that we don't se...
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