I have uploaded a lecture on strategies for outlining and drafting academic essays, available online at this link.A most useful webpage on transition between ideas is available online from Capital Co...
Google.com is celebrating Beatrix Potter's birthday with homepage images....
A reminder to those who have not yet picked up their graded Mid-Term revisions that special office hours are available by appointment right through to August 11th. We will go over in consultation dir...
The final course essay, thirty-five hundred words in length, is due August 11th in my Department mailbox. I will pick up the essays at 23:59:59 on that date.The topic, of your choosing, must deal wit...
Here is the list given in lecture of the particular Tales to absolutely concetrate upon -- should one, inexplicably, not want to read the great woman's œuvre entire.The Tale of Benjamin BunnyThe Tale...
I am trying to get a copy of Manor House on DVD for us: "...the history reality program.... set in Edwardian Britain."PBS presents Manor House, a gripping new series which brings class to reality tel...
A classfellow sends along a link to The Beatrix Potter Emporium, suggesting that this indicates an enduring Edwardian appeal....
Roderick Spode is P.G. Wodehouse's parody of the loathsome Sir Oswald Mosley, British fascist; the son of whom, one Max, bears his father's odium with equal desert: Formula One President Refuses to r...
The "Fashion-Era" website has useful tid-bits about Edwardian life: look to the useful linklist at the left hand side.A content-rich webpage at BBC4 from their series on "The Edwardians. I especially...
From the Givvup Only Are There blog, a post titled "Neo-Edwardianism marches on." The opening quotation has a link to a Wodehouse scan, the blog entitling P.G.W. "The Master" (as he widely is so-refe...
Chose one of the following topic questions for your mid-term essay.The concluding "Two Voices" chapter of G.K. Chesterton's The Napoleon of Notting Hill is one of the novel's most memorable and widel...
June 2nd: Ian, Graham, ChelseaJune 16th: Breanna, Laura, SherinaJune 23rd: Gurveen, Brendan, KathleenJune 30th: Megan, Molly, Neil.July 7th: Trevor, Darcy, RobertJuly 14th: Nicole, Jane, Jocelyn
Group A:Gurvine J., Robert G., Jane S., Sherina C., Darcy B.Group B:Brendan W., Laura S., Nicola G., Trevor F.Group C:Ian B., Molly S., Megan P., Chelsea G.Group D:Kathleen M., Breanna L., Jocelyn Mc...
We do in fact have a room change: we are now in AQ-5025.
Out next course author, H.G. Wells, was, as given in lecture, was a friend & oftimes debating opponent of Chesterton. GKC gets a sly dig at his friend in The Napoleon of Notting Hill, on page 81 ...
The great speculative science fiction writer Harlan Elison (a treasure of mine) wrote a now-famous short story, "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman," in 1965, having strong thematic similarity t...
Seminar discussion in tonight's class brought up the importance of distance in Chesterton's act of setting his political ideas is a fiction of the future: a very strange future in that it is exactly ...
The opening to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows is an intensive expression of many essential Edwardian aspect; for instance, its balanced loves of countryside and urban life (but many more a...
The point made in lecture regarding the Edwardian reserve in sexual matters being more eros than prudery is illustrated well by a National Lampoon cover from 1981 which represents our own Age's anti-...
Classfellow G.N. sends alone this article from the New York Times, entitled "Clown Prince of the City" à propos Chesterton's The Napoleon of Notting Hill.
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