January 2009
55 posts
my idea of a great night (i.e. my night last...
Thai dinner (delivery of course)
Bottle of red wine (decent Malbec)
Dark chocolate
Drew
Doogan
Old Paul Newman Flick
everybodycares:
Concerto In D Minor. BWV 974:...
yellowdoor:
joshawesome:
Secret Heart by Feist
“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak...”
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Updated Reading List
Villette - Charlotte Bronte
Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The House of Seven Gables - Hawthorne
“My ruling passions: Justice - Order - Dogs - Books - Flowers - Architecture -...”
– Edith Wharton
Adopt a Word →
ilindsay:
Thanks to: professionalwidow I am now getting yelled at by all kinds of unfimilar words.
Shakespearean Insulter →
mercenarywriters:
Because you deserve to be denigrated by the very best.
walpaper:
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight The...
“You live in the most privileged nation on earth. You are the most privileged...”
– Robert F. Kennedy, UC Berkeley, October 10, 1966 (via spaceships) (via julyshewillfly)
“Society and conversation, therefore, are the most powerful remedies for...”
– Adam Smith
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
– Virginia Woolf (via lickystickypicky) (via bitchville) (via singlescoop)
Current Reading List
Looking Backward- Edward Bellamy
The Form of Victorian Fiction - J. Hillis Miller
Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life - Martha Nussbaum
The Theory of Moral Sentiment - Adam Smith
various pieces of literary criticism
“ I have a sort of feeling of inseparableness, as though my blood somehow...”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe’s husband, Calvin, to Harriet before they married
susannaopal:
ohspit:
blurredvision:
Air and...
singlescoop:
plainoljane:
kari-shma:
...
Current Reading List
The Minister’s Wooing - Stowe
American Technological Sublime - Nye
The Form of Victorian Fiction - J.H. Miller
theipodguru:
grace kelly - mika
I just need to say...
..that I am so excited about my studies this semester. I can’t believe I get to spend my time thinking and writing about this material and benefitting from so many intelligent professors and peers. I feel pretty lucky. Of course, this attitude will dissolve into acute anxiety towards the end of the semester when I’m turing in final papers :)
“Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own...”
– Salman Rushdie
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I...”
– Emily Dickinson
from my Lit, Tech, Culture Syllabus (this class is...
Our task in this class is to figure out how people responded to the intense technological environment of the last decades of the 19th century, and the first decades of the twentieth century. This period is marked by technological and scientific innovations, transformations of the public sphere, new visual media, and a number of new obsessions. How is innovation understood and commercialized? What...
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via susannaopal)
This quote makes me feel a lot better about a few papers
Reading List for Victorian Lit Independent Study
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Desire and Domestic Fiction by Nancy Armstrong
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Form of Victorian Fiction by Joseph Hills Miller
The Novel and the Police by D. A. Miller
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
Darwin’s Plots by Gillian Beer
...
miseenabyme:
MGMT, Electric Feel
Been running...