Dear friends and readers, Not only is “Intertextuality in Simon Raven’s The Pallisers and Other Trollope Films” published, but the volume in which it occurs, Victorian Literature and Film Adaptation, edd. Abigail Burnham Bloom and Mary Sanders Pollock, introd. Thomas Leitch has been reviewed by Kamilla Elliot in the online academic review journal, Review 19. [...]
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In which I respond to Kamilla Elliot’s review of Victorian Literature and Film Adaptation
Posted in Andrew Davies, Costume drama, Film adaptations, film studies, historical fiction, mini-series, political novels/films, teaching, Theater, Trollope, tagged alan plater, pallisers, simon raven, thomas leitch on May 23, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Summer’s here: my past year’s listening & new routs
Posted in About this blog, Anne Bronte, Audio books, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, teaching, Trollope, tagged classic movies, elizabeth gaskell, george eliot, online reading, Poldark, reading-as-life, seasonal on May 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Dear friends and readers, What do you mean summer’s here? It’s the beginning of May. Well, arguably from the point of view of weather, here in Northern Virginia we have two seasons: the cold (or maybe it would be more accurate nowadays to say the mostly cool and chilly) where days are short, and the [...]
Maureen Corrignan’s Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading & Stevie Smith on the 12 Dancing Princesses
Posted in 20th century culture, American literature, feminism, George Eliot, girls books, gothic, mystery-murder book, mystery-suspense, novels of sensibility, teaching, Winston Graham, women's novels, women's art, tagged Bobbie Ann Mason, Girl Sleith, heroine's text, jane eyre, Little Women, Maureen Corrigan, portrait of a lady, Stevie Smith on April 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Woman reading, artist or photographer unknown Dear friends and readers, The title may be off-putting, but Corrigan’s book is an inspiriting book to read in the dark near-dawn hours of a spring into summer morning, one intended to keep the reader company in her journeys with others through books. Corrigan writes of reading as intense [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Harm spreading across the globe: privatizing medical knowledge
Posted in 20th century culture, disability issues, Disabilty studies, medicine, political novels/films, politics, teaching, Uncategorized, tagged Atul Gawande, Fernando Mereilles, Frederick Wisemen, Helen Epstein, hospital, John LeCarre, Marcia Angell, near death, Philip Mirowski, Science, Sheldon Krimsky, Simon Channing-Williams on July 14, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Wit (directed by Mike Nichols, screenplay by Emma Thompson based on Margaret Edson’s play): Jason, the resident (Jonathan Woodward) has disregarded Miss Bearing (Emma Thompson), the patient’s request to be DNR on the grounds “she’s research!” Suzie, her nurse (Audra McDonald), is protecting the space around Miss Bearing. “It is simply no longer possible to [...]
She had seated herself again … for life, as it were
Posted in Autobiographical, Seasonal, teaching on January 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Frank Currituck Benson 186201951), Currituck Marshes, North Carolina (1926) Dear friends and readers, A brief seasonal blog: tonight in Alexandria we are experiencing the kind of cold that threatens the life of anyone who has to spend the night out in it. I did finish and sent off my paper on the film adaptations of [...]
