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Category: Emotion and Affect

Posted on:May 18, 2011July 20, 2020Emotion and Affect Gender and Sexuality Literature The Devil Victorian Bits

The Sorrows of Satan: When Sorrow is Power

That I have named this very blog after Marie Corelli — and her “electric creed” in the novel A Romance of Two Worlds — speaks to a fact that I don’t really need to reveal: I am in love with Marie Corelli. The pleasure that reading her books brings me is one that can only […]

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Posted on:April 15, 2011July 20, 2020Emotion and Affect Literature Victorian Bits

Jane Eyre Does Not Cry

A couple days ago I took some students in my class to see the latest cinematic attempt to bring Charlotte Bronte’s classic novel Jane Eyre to the public. At the opening scene of Cary Fukunaga’s film my heart sank down into my heels and then, from there, I only stomped the ground with a red […]

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Posted on:April 9, 2011July 20, 2020Emotion and Affect Gender and Sexuality Literature Of Children

Emotion in Death in Venice

When I was called out for teaching some provocative contexts in my “Strange Children” course this quarter, my supervisor came to my defense by saying, “Well, it’s not like you’re teaching Death in Venice, or anything.” I had heard of Thomas Mann’s novella — and really enjoyed reading the obscure The Transposed Heads, which I […]

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Posted on:March 7, 2011July 20, 2020Emotion and Affect Victorian Bits

William Hazlitt’s Pleasures of Hating

William Hazlitt is notorious for writing criticism that doesn’t hold back.  A kind of rogue who received a large number of threats for his blatant opinions concerning authorship and culture, Hazlitt ruminated about the darker aspects of human experience. In his best-known work, The Spirit of the Age (British, 1825), he appears more tame than in […]

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