Tag Archives: Twilight

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, Charlotte Bronte, 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, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

How Jane Eyre Is Not Twilight

By Robin Bates | Published: June 11, 2014

“Jane Eyre” provides a lesson in how to emerge whole from a toxic relationship.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged abusive relationships, adolescence, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Relationships, Stephenie Meyer, toxic relationships, vampirism, warning signals | Comments closed

Comparing Evelina and Twilight

By Robin Bates | Published: December 17, 2009

We talked about the movie Twilight in the last gathering of my British Restoration and 18th Century Couples Comedy class. That and France Burney’s epistolary novel Evelina (1775). Hang on as I spell out the connection. If you don’t know about Twilight, then you are probably neither a teenager nor the parent of a teenager. […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged adolescence, Coming of Age, Evelina, Frances Burney, Stephenie Meyer | Comments closed