Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, pen-name Scholem Aleichem (1859-1916) Dear friends and readers, Izzy and I went to see Scholem Aleichem, or, Laughing in the Darkness late Sunday afternoon. Bob (on Trollope19thCStudies) had recommended it a couple of weeks ago now. So now I’ll repeat the recommendation: it’s a fine film, one of the best I’ve seen [...]
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Scholem Aleichem, or, Laughing in the Darkness
Posted in 20th century culture, biography, Edith Wharton, film studies, gothic, Life Writing, men's memoirs, museums, politics, teaching, Theater, tagged Identity politics on August 22, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Henry James’s Roderick Hudson: A novel of displaced homosexuality & thwarted self-development
Posted in 19th century novels, Andrew Davies, colm toibin, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Uncategorized, tagged Golden Bowl, homoeroticism, homosexuaity, Leon Edel, portrait of a lady, Princess Casamassima, Roderick Hudson on September 12, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Pool, Villa D’Este, Tivoli, from Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and Gardens Dear friends and readers, Over the month of August on Trollope19thCStudies a very few of us read Henry James’s Roderick Hudson, if not James’s first novel, his earliest in print and still read. I had not read it since I was in my early [...]
