Mapping Tom’s Journey Friends and readers, I bring together in one place my essay-blogs on the extraordinary learning journey I took with a group of older retired people at the Oscher Institute of Life-long Learning (attached to American University in DC) when we read and discussed Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones. I was asked by a […]
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After teaching Tom Jones for 10 weeks
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, 18th century films, historical-literary study, tagged Henry Fielding, teaching, Tom Jones on February 29, 2016| 8 Comments »
Tom Jones, the last 3rd: sexual violence against women, libertinism; Hamlet & a history of the novel (5)
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, female archetypes, feminism, historical-literary study, theater, tagged teaching, Tom Jones on February 14, 2016| 6 Comments »
An inn on the road where Tom and the military men at table (Osborne/Richardson Tom Jones, 1963) A rare flashback in the two films: Bridget Allworthy when young, waving goodbye to Mr Allworthy as he sets off for three months in Bath: she is pregnant, the man who impregnated her dead, and she will have […]
Tom Jones on the road: allusive, filled with sex; gypsies, Punch & Judy & The Provok’d Husband (4)
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, 18th century films, historical-literary study, reading life, tagged Henry Fielding, teaching, Tom Jones on January 18, 2016| 5 Comments »
Fielding and the landlady at Upton who is staring horrified at Mrs Waters’ state of undress (John Sessions and Ruth Sheen, 1997 BBC Tom Jones) Tom and Mrs Waters aka Jenny Jones eating later that night at Upton (Albert Finney, Joyce Redmond, 1963 Richardson/Osborne Tom Jones) Dear friends and readers, Herewith a fourth blog on […]
Reading Tom Jones: Obstacles & Fielding’s life (1)
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, film adaptation, historical novels, landscapes, literary biography, theater, tagged Henry Fielding, Tom Jones on September 29, 2015| 9 Comments »
Glastonbury Tor, Sometsetshire Dear friends and readers, This is another blog of lecture notes for a course I’m teaching at the Oscher Institute of Lifelong Learning at American University. As happened last spring, the second week I was supposed to teach, the first class was cancelled (not the course itself, we will begin meeting next […]
Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones: A Fall Syllabus
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, 18th century films, 18thc actresses, female archetypes, historical novels, historical-literary study, tagged Henry Fielding, sexuality female, sexuality male, syllabus, teaching, Tom Jones on September 7, 2015| 9 Comments »
Wm Hogarth, The March to Finley, a scene from the ’45’ Rebellion (1749) (click to enlarge) A Syllabus For a Study Group at the Oscher LifeLong Learning Institute at American University Day: Ten Monday afternoons, 1:00 to 2:50 pm St Sophia Greek Orthodox Church, 2815 36th Street, Northwest, Washington DC Dates: Classes start Sept 28th; […]
S&S/Austen films; Pallisers/ Victorian films; & TomJones,Clary/18thc films
Posted in 18th century films, blank, costume drama, film adaptation, jane austen films, victorian films, tagged trollope films on May 8, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Dear all, I’ve returned to my movie project and over the last week or so have been rewatching the 5 Sense and Sensibility that are my terrain for one of my chapters of a book on Austen films — or a narrower subset of Austen films. I’m aware my 69 page typescript might seem obsessively […]
Foremother poet: Mary Jones (1707-78), Chantress
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, feminism, foremother poet, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, women's art, women's poetry, womens lives, tagged feminism, foremother poet, letters, women's life-writing, women's poetry on February 15, 2020| 2 Comments »
In one of her poem’s a heelpiece to a lady’s shoe (18th century of course) speaks Her self-description: “a Traveller or Pilgrim, wandering about from House to House, in order to partake of the Benevolence of such good People [to her friends living in Windsor Forest] as you are … ” (ie., poor but honest […]
A feminist approach to Henry Fielding or the nature of historical fiction? — Anne Boleyn, Jenny Jones, Lady Townly & the Poldark extravaganza
Posted in 18th century, 18th century drama, 18th century films, 18thc actresses, conference-paper report, costume drama, female archetypes, feminism, heroines' texts, historical novels, historical-literary study, politics, theater, women artists, women's films, women's memoirs, women's novels, tagged French revolution, regency England, symbolic women, Waterloo on October 18, 2018| 4 Comments »
Natasha McElhone and Jodhi May as Mary and Anne Boleyn (2003, BBC The Other Boleyn Girl, written and directed by Philippa Lowrthorpe) Dear friends and readers, I’ve just been watching the powerful 2003 BBC film adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s The Other Boleyn Girl, written & directed by Philippa Lowthorpe, with (most notably or memorably) Jodhi […]
Nurse Betty: Renee Zellweger’s first incarnation as Bridget Jones in a witty satire
Posted in Austen film, female archetypes, feminism, film adaptation, jane austen films, women's art, women's film, women's films, tagged women's film on June 29, 2011| 2 Comments »
Dear friends and readers, Did you know that the type character that Bridget Jones stands for — poignant, yet funny, appealing, warm, idealistic yet thoroughly attuned to this world — as played by Renee Zellweger made her first entrance as the half-crazed heroine in Nurse Betty (director Neil LaBute, screenplay John C. Richards, producer Gail […]
Chawton House Lockdown Literary Festival (2 of 2)
Posted in 18th century, 21st century, conference-paper report, female archetypes, feminism, foremother poet, french writers, heroines' texts, historical-literary study, jane austen criticism, jane austen films, jane austen novels, jane austens letters, landscapes, literary biography, women's art, women's films, Women's historical romance, tagged Charlotte Smith, feminism, foremother poet, women's novels on May 28, 2020| 3 Comments »
Drawing Room at John Murray, 50 Albemarle Street, London Bee Rowlatt, Dear Mary, In Search of Mary Wollstonecraft Dear friends and readers, I continue my account of the talks and interviews variously recorded at the Chawton House Lockdown Literary Festival last weekend. We’ve covered Friday and half of Saturday, May 15th and 16th; today we’ll […]
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