Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes) studying his wife’s computer files Dear friends and readers, I’m again turning a lecture for my students into a blog for their use and what I hope is its interest to anyone who has read LeCarre’s masterpiece novel, The Constant Gardener, or Fernando Mereilles’s equally great film adaptation (with a little [...]
Archive for November, 2011
The Constant Gardener: “what will happen to capitalism now that there’ s no opponent?”
Posted in 20th century culture, historical fiction, mystery-murder book, mystery-suspense, political novels/films, politics, tagged classic movies, colonialism, Cornwall, corrupt medicine. Africa on November 30, 2011 | 7 Comments »
EC/ASECS Conference on Liberty in the long 18th century at Penn State: Thomson, the black Mozart, Edgeworth/Behn
Posted in 18th century, 18th century novels, 18th century poetry, book history, conference report, Conferences, feminism, French novels, mozart, Music, women's novels, tagged aphra behn, book illustrations, heroine's text, james thomson, Joseph Bologne, maria edgeworth on November 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Temple of the Muses, Scotland, dedicated to James Thomson, author of The Seasons Dear friends and readers, My third and last blog report on our East Central Region meeting on the theme of liberty in the long 18th century at Penn State: late Saturday afternoon and early Sunday morning. This last afternoon I heard a [...]
Glass’s & the Met’s Satyagraha on HD: religious oratorio or missed opportunity?
Posted in 20th century culture, Met HDOperas, Music, opera, politics, Theater, tagged HD Met opera, Philip Glass, Satyagraha on November 21, 2011 | 5 Comments »
The puppets (image taken from English Royal Opera production — the puppet makers at the Met were presented as a London group) Dear friends and readers, Well this past Saturday the Met put on Glass’s Satyagraha, and the question Jim and I debated afterwards was whether it was a religious oratorio strained into a theatrical [...]
EC/ASECS conference on liberty in the long 18th century at Penn State: enslaved families; professional women, Priestley, the Paterno library
Posted in 18th century, America 18thcentury, conference report, Conferences, feminism, library books, Plays, Poetry, politics, science, Slavery, Theater, women's novels, tagged Elizabeth Farren, elizabeth inchbald, enslaved women, gambling as liberty, heroine's text, hester thrale piozzi, mary wells, Susannah Centivre on November 17, 2011 | 7 Comments »
The family broken up in a slave auction Dear friends and readers, I continue my report of the fine conference (East Central Region meeting of ASECS at Penn State) centering on the concept of liberty in the long 18th century. Over the course of three days, there emerged a developing definition for different groups of [...]
Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope’s Novels
Posted in 19th century novels, Andrew Davies, book illustration, conference report, Conferences, Film adaptations, Trollope, tagged Anthony Trollope, HKHWR, pallisers, TTWWLN on November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Paul Montague (Cilian Murphy) and Mrs Hurtle (Mirando Otto) at Lowestoffe based on one of the original illustrations (2001 BBC/WGGH The Way We Live Now, script Andrew Davies) Dear Friends and Readers, More than five years after we had our first Trollope conference in 25 years (!); thirteen months after sending off my review of [...]
Gmail trouble
Posted in cyberspace, listserve life, Net life on November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Dear friends and readers, My google mail has disappeared for number of hours and that has given me quite a scare. I got a frozen message for many hours which claimed to be fixing an error in my mail storage. So anyone who wants to contact me, please remember that I have two other addresses [...]
Translated into Estonian!
Posted in 19th century poetry, European Renaissance, feminism, Foremother Poetry, women's poetry, women's art, tagged foremother poet, julia kavanagh on November 9, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Caterina von Hemessen (1527/8 – ?1566), Portrait of a Lady, 1551 Dear friends and readers, Six years ago now I finished making this large bibliography page for women’s literature (it’s not limited to women poets), and rejoice to say that Anna Galovich has translated it into Estonian and placed it on her website. I am [...]
