Dickens, Manzoni, Zola, and James: The Impossible Romance

“ Horrible Impossible ” : Henry James ’ s Awkward Stage

It was not irritation he appeared to express, but the slight strain of an effort to get into relation with the subject. Better to focus the image he closed his eyes awhile. —The Awkward Age (207) In a now-familiar account of Henry James's career, the failure in the theater so spectacularly marked by the Guy Domville debacle of 1895 sent the bruised novelist back to the consolations of fiction a...

Dickens and the passions.

There was a fiction that Mr. Wopsle "examined" the scholars, once a quarter. What he did on those occasions was to turn up his cuffs, stick up his hair, and give us Mark Antony's oration over the body of Caesar. This was always followed by Collins's Ode on the Passions, wherein I particularly venerated Mr. Wopsle as Revenge, throwing his blood-stained sword in thunder down, and taking the Warde...

My impossible health, or the case of James Joyce, catalogue of an exhibition

JAMES JOYCE, My impossible health, or the case of James Joyce, catalogue of an exhibition, London, Royal College of Physicians, 1977, pp. v, 35, [no price stated]. With so much narrow medical specialization it is refreshing to review this catalogue of an exhibition inter-relating aspects of literature, medicine, and history. It tastefully depicts the tribulations of a frustrated Dublin medical ...

Grotesque in Dickens

Children in Dickens ’ s

He was the most popular of the 19 century English novelists, the quintessential Victorian author one who is fondly remembered and read even today, by innumerable readers around the globe. Here is a small personal tribute to Charles Dickens, my favourite social novelist. In his novels, Dickens depicted the disorder, squalor, blight, decay, and the human misery of a modern industrial city.It was ...