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Category: Gender and Sexuality

Posted on:June 1, 2011July 20, 2020Gender and Sexuality Literature Madness Victorian Bits

The Best Wound in Trollope’s Lady Anna

When I was an undergraduate with an interest in studying Victorian literature, a professor once asked me how much Trollope I had read.  I scratched my head: Trollope?  Never heard of him. The professor explained that Anthony Trollope used to be the backbone of nineteenth-century literature courses, so I, of course, made Trollope the focus […]

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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 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:April 1, 2011July 20, 2020Gender and Sexuality Literature The Devil

The Backlands, Where Love is War

Joao Guimaraes Rosa’s 1956 novel Grande Sertao: Veradas (Translated in English by James L. Taylor and Harriet De Onis as The Devil to Pay in the Backlands) brought me back to my The Devil is a Woman series, from which I have taken a small break. The Devil to Pay is the first Brazilian novel […]

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Posted on:March 8, 2011July 20, 2020Gender and Sexuality Madness The Darkness

The Nameless Dread in American Psycho

If Patrick Bateman in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho (American, 1991) doesn’t actually sadistically kill numerous women,  children, and maybe a few men, then this novel is possibly the saddest story ever told. Many years ago I watched Christian Bale play Bateman in the film American Pscyho but for some reason while I do remember the […]

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