The more astute among my readers may have noticed something a bit funny going on in the past several posts—in writing about The History of Emily Montague, I have hardly mentioned Emily Montague. It’s not that I have anything against her; she’s a perfectly lovely heroine. Beautiful, intelligent, virtuous, sympathetic: everything Colonel Rivers could [...]
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The History of Emily Montague is set at a very particular time in Canadian history. Colonel Rivers’s opening letter is dated April 10, 1766, just three years after the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years’ War and two years after the Quebec Act allowed Roman Catholics to again participate in the civil government [...] I’ve been a much busier bee this week and am starting to feel almost reenergized. I’ve been spending some time reading a very good symposium on “The Function of Book Blogging at the Present Time” being hosted on Anecdotal Evidence and A Commonplace Blog, something that’s been on my mind lately, not least because [...] From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker: You must remember the account I once gave you of a curious dispute he had at Constantinople, with a couple of Turks, in defence of the Christian religion; a dispute from which he acquired the epithet of Demonstrator—The truth is, H— owns no religion but that of nature; [...] Unsurprisingly for a novel concerned with courtship and marriage and structured as a series of notes among friends, the letters in The History of Emily Montague concern themselves largely with the nature of friendship and love and what makes an ideal matrimonial alliance. Both the men and women of the novel focus on these [...] The History of Emily Montague is probably one of the less “serious” epistolary novels I’m reading, and I wasn’t expecting a lot from it. While those expectations were largely confirmed, the reading of it was extremely enjoyable and there were really an awful lot of things I liked. Written in 1769, this is mostly [...] In addition to a couple of Anti-Pamelas which came out shortly after Richardson’s work, Shamela appeared, “in which, the many notorious Falshoods and Misreprsentations of a Book called Pamela, Are exposed and refuted; and all the matchless Arts of that young Politician, set in a true and just Light.” Henry Fielding, the generally accepted [...] …for slowly getting back into the swing of things on a holiday. Taken from The Little Professor. Using only books you have read this year (2009), answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title. Describe yourself: Sailing Alone Around the World (Joshua Slocum) How do you feel: Something Fresh (P.G. Wodehouse) Describe [...] |
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