So I'm searching through databases for articles on Eavan Boland, and what do I find but one by my Irish Lit professor at Kenyon, on the VERY SAME TOPIC as my thesis! (Well, actually, I'm sort of writing on the reverse side of the coin as her article; from what I've skimmed so far, the article deals with deconstruction, and I'm dealing with construction. Of a sort, anyway. I promise that sentence made sense in my head.)
AWESOME.
(Must e-mail her. Must, must, must.)
Other awesome things include Pamela, which is cracking me up. It's like a farce of the typical Gothic novel, but before the Gothic novel was even invented! Pamela is an idiot, but a hilarious and even sympathetic one.
I'm about halfway through now. I assume Pamela and her master are going to get married at some point, given the anvils Richardson's been dropping about Pamela still finding him attractive even after he's kidnapped her and attempted to seduce her umpteen times, and the part where the master is dropping the "m" word with increasing frequency...
AWESOME.
(Must e-mail her. Must, must, must.)
Other awesome things include Pamela, which is cracking me up. It's like a farce of the typical Gothic novel, but before the Gothic novel was even invented! Pamela is an idiot, but a hilarious and even sympathetic one.
I'm about halfway through now. I assume Pamela and her master are going to get married at some point, given the anvils Richardson's been dropping about Pamela still finding him attractive even after he's kidnapped her and attempted to seduce her umpteen times, and the part where the master is dropping the "m" word with increasing frequency...
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Date: 2009-06-09 03:11 am (UTC)Is made of anti-Gothic awesome. Muahahaha.
Mwahahaha! I just finished with the "Airing in the Chariot" that Pamela and Mr. B. take together once she comes back from the abortive trip to her parents, and I'm like, "I should really hate you for what you've done, but...I think you're really sweet and I want to see you two kids get married." (This was totally the first romance novel, wasn't it? I feel like it should have a lurid pink cover with a strapping shirtless man on it.)
I sincerely hope the next 200 pages are going to be them mocking the local gentry together.
Ooh, ooh...as in, McMullen Irish lit. prof??? (Were there any others?)
Uhhh...if there were any others, I didn't know them? Yay McMullen!