tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post6479039002314139583..comments2024-03-28T15:01:12.582+00:00Comments on The little white attic : Politics in ShirleyHai Di Nguyenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-61931599668078019122015-03-03T21:22:12.226+00:002015-03-03T21:22:12.226+00:00Do you happen to know Charlotte Bronte's view ...Do you happen to know Charlotte Bronte's view on the Chartists? Writing about the Luddites is easier. <br />Also, I guess you've seen my message about Nabokov and <i>Pnin</i>? Hai Di Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02230670162621139739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3901980733463068698.post-35908410307377800292015-03-03T19:31:43.357+00:002015-03-03T19:31:43.357+00:00By a strange coincidence I managed to get a little...By a strange coincidence I managed to get a little-known book on Chartism at the secondhand bookshop! It's called the Chartist Movement by Mark Hovell. <br /><br />Agree that Shirley is CB's weakest novel. And yet what makes the novel special to me is the world-building. The world-building seems more real than the Jane Eyre world, though arguably the Jane Eyre world is more vivid. But the Jane Eyre world seems closeted within some enchanted fairytale-land, whereas Shirley convinces you of its reality. Caroline Helstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04922512642158974870noreply@blogger.com