Tag Archives: Charlotte Bronte

Soliloquies Changed Us Fundamentally

By Robin Bates | Published: December 10, 2023

Hamlet’s soliloquies changed the way we see ourselves and others and led the way to the novel.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Angus Fletcher, Hamlet, Harold Bloom, Harper Lee, Huckleberry Finn, humanism, Jane Eyre, Le Cid, Pierre Corneille, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, soliloquies, Sorrows of Young Werther, To Kill a Mockingbird, transcendentalism, Wonderworks | Comments closed

My Brilliant Friend, Cure for Loneliness?

By Robin Bates | Published: November 15, 2023

The child perspective in Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend” creates a special bond with the reader.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Angus Fletcher, Childhood, Company We Keep, Elena Ferrante, Emily Bronte, first person point of view, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, John Knowles, My Brilliant Friend, opera, penny dreadfuls, Separate Peace, Wayne Booth, William Shakespeare, Wonderworks, Wuthering Heights | Comments closed

Anti-Vaxxers Ignore the Past

By Robin Bates | Published: July 10, 2023

Anti-vaxxers should read 19th century novels, which describe high mortality rates

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "University Hospital Boston", anti-vaxxers, Birds' Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Childbirth, Cholera, Daniel Defoe, Jane Eyre, Journal of the Plague Year, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mary Oliver, Nemesis, Oliver Twist, Philip Roth, plague, Polio, Robert Kennedy Jr., Scarlet Fever, Secret Garden, Small Pox, Turberculosis, typhus | Comments closed

Woolf and On Board Lit Conversations

By Robin Bates | Published: July 26, 2021

To move from Jo Nesbo’s Nordic Noir to Virginia Woolf is to experience emotional whiplash.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Jane Austen, Jo Nesbo, Nordic Noir, Pride and Prejudice, Virginia Woolf, Voyage Out | Comments closed

Great Teachers Inspire Great Teachers

By Robin Bates | Published: May 5, 2021

This being Teacher Appreciation Week, I nominate Charlotte Bronte’s Miss Temple as exemplary teacher.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Jane Eyre, teaching, Villette | Comments closed

Austen Has Some of Lit’s Best Mean Girls

By Robin Bates | Published: February 4, 2021

I survey the meaning of some of my favorite literary mean girls.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Cat's Eye, Emma, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Mean Girls, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Robber Bride, Sense and Sensibility | Comments closed

Does Lit Lead to Illicit Sex?

By Robin Bates | Published: August 25, 2020

Dante’s beautifully tragic account of Paolo and Francesca captures–as many great works do–the dangers of total absorption in a relationship.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Adultery, Christopher Marlowe, Dante, Doctor Faustus, Goethe, Inferno, Jane Eyre, Paolo and Francesca, passionate love, Romeo and Juliet, Samuel Johnson, Sorrows of Young Werther, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Illness in 19th Century Lit

By Robin Bates | Published: March 24, 2020

19th century literature is filled with images of illness. Reading it should make us grateful to the advances in medical science.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Bleak House, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, epidemics, fathers and sons, Francis Hodgson Burnett, George Eliot, Illness, Ivan Turgenev, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Middlemarch, North and South, pandemics, Secret Garden | Comments closed

Standing Up to a Bully President

By Robin Bates | Published: September 24, 2019

Pelosi standing up to Trump with an impeachment inquiry is reminiscent of Jane Eyre standing up to her bullying cousin John Reid.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Donald Trump, impeachment, Jane Eyre, Nancy Pelosi | Comments closed

Tag Archives: Charlotte Bronte

Soliloquies Changed Us Fundamentally

My Brilliant Friend, Cure for Loneliness?

Anti-Vaxxers Ignore the Past

Woolf and On Board Lit Conversations

Great Teachers Inspire Great Teachers

Austen Has Some of Lit’s Best Mean Girls

Does Lit Lead to Illicit Sex?

Illness in 19th Century Lit

Standing Up to a Bully President

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