The little white attic

I thought the last blog post would be, well, the last blog post about Evelina , but it turns out that I have some more to say.  1/ One thing...

Good day, folks. I just returned from Switzerland 2 days ago (work trip).  1/ One good thing about my habit of blogging whilst still reading...

1/ Evelina, her mother dead and her father not acknowledging her, has been raised by Rev. Arthur Villars in the country. She is now 17 and L...

1/ Now that I have got acquainted with the fathers of the English novel (Richardson and Fielding), it’s natural that I get to know the mothe...

1/ Himadri (Argumentative Old Git) has written at length about the characters in The Member of the Wedding and the themes of loneliness, i...

(Drawing of Parson Adams, by Thomas Rowlandson)  1/ In an earlier blog post, I wrote that Joseph Andrews , like Vanity Fair over a century l...

As I wrote in the earlier blog post about Joseph Andrews , Henry Fielding takes from Don Quixote the picaresque form: two—and later three—c...

What’s up with me and lists these days? I don’t know. Getting listless, I guess. But once in a while, I think it’s good to look at some list...

I personally detest (identity-obsessed, anti-white) BookRiot. I also don’t like the phrase “people of colour”, especially outside the West—a...