#classics2020

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"𝕳𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖉 𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖔𝖜𝖓 𝖑𝖔𝖜 𝖙𝖊𝖒𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊 𝖆𝖑𝖜𝖆𝖞𝖘 𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖍𝖎𝖒; 𝖍𝖊 𝖎𝖈𝖊𝖉 𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖔𝖋𝖋𝖎𝖈𝖊 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖉𝖔𝖌 𝖉𝖆𝖞𝖘; 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖉𝖎𝖉𝖓'𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖜 𝖎𝖙 𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝖉𝖊𝖌𝖗𝖊𝖊 𝖆𝖙 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖒𝖆𝖘." - Charles Dickens 🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️ Today has been a brisk and biting sort of day. The sun has been bright; my nose and cheeks have been mostly bright red. Winter is well and truly on its way, and Stave One of 'A Christmas Carol' is open for discussion with The Spooky Nerds Book Club (that's @rabbitheartedreader, @engaginglit, me and, if you'd like, you!). 🥶 If you've read Dickens before you'll likely recall his words winding, clause after clause, building richly populated worlds and exquisitely developed characters. 'A Christmas Carol' is no different. A single paragraph on p3 (beginning "Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!" and ending with the quote above) paints a vivid picture of our Bah Humbugging protagonist, whilst also containing most of the novel's key themes and motifs. Each is worthy of comment; I have so many thoughts to develop and threads to follow already, but in this short post I'll pick just one. The thing that struck me most during this reading was the frequency with which Dickens employs the language of weather - namely coldness - in description of Scrooge. Maybe I've just forgotten the chill of late British autumn, but I find the weather of the novel chilling; the picture of Scrooge ice-cold. It is a simple metaphor, and yet it's so visceral I can deem it nothing but a success. 🥶 Throughout the month, my fellow Spooky Nerd co-hosts & I will be posting about the text; I hope to follow up on some of the other thoughts I've had regarding Stave One then, but in the meantime, let me know how you're getting on. 🤔: What struck you most about the first part of 'A Christmas Carol'? 🥶 Oh, and if the whole 'stave' thing is confusing you, that's where I plan to go next! . #thespookynerdsbookclub #achristmascarol #dickens #charlesdickens #readalong #victorianliterature #bookclub #christmasread#scrooge #bahhumbug#bookworm #literarytheory#academia #englishliterature#litnerd #classics2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/CIeB1_igm5G/?igshid=1famauzrtb6hc

[hifilist]

Warner Classics2020-02-27 필하모니아 오케스트라 전설의 탄생 [24CD]

[generallygothic]

"𝕴𝖓𝖙𝖔 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖜𝖎𝖑𝖉 𝕬𝖇𝖞𝖘𝖘 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖒𝖇 𝖔𝖋 𝕹𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖘 𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝖌𝖗𝖆𝖛𝖊" - John Milton 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 This keeps happening... the month's end is in sight and the scratch that I have left on the surface is imperceptible! Throughout November, slowly and quietly I have been exploring the ways in which 🦇Nature is Gothic🦇. Though the majority of the discoveries and discussions I wished to share with you must remain until next time, I cannot move on without mentioning Milton first. 🍎 First published in 1667, 'Paradise Lost' takes the fall of man as its subject. Various themes of nature are ripe for the picking in the Garden of Eden - in Milton, the Bible, and wider lore. In the poem specifically, Satan, Adam, God and his Son are all at odds, representing the multiplicitous nature of [hu]man and evil of all! [It's a little more nuanced than that, but my wordcount limit is a little tighter than Milton's was.] 🍎 Formed from the language of cathedrals and churches, religion echoes throughout the early gothic. Though not strictly big 'G' Gothic itself, many of the markers are there. Milton's epic is also one of the four formative texts that Frankenstein's creature reads in Shelley's magnum opus... 🍎 I imagine that the story of Original Sin will be familiar to many of you, whether you've made Milton's acquaintance or not. As a species, we have been attempting to unravel ourselves right from the start - to decipher the good and the bad that exists at our core. If you're interested in theological-flavoured existential exploration influenced by Greek mythology and influencing the Gothic, Milton is your man! . #natureisgothic #paradiselost #johnmilton #bookstagram #englishliterature #classics2020 #classicliterature #spookynerd #bookworm #books #bookreview #darkacademia #academic #litnerd #epic #poetry #gothic #literary #classics https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJs-PHgHsI/?igshid=v52yvjml4w9p

[generallygothic]

"𝕴𝖓 𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖑𝖎𝖇𝖗𝖆𝖗𝖞 𝖍𝖊 𝖍𝖆𝖉 𝖆𝖑𝖜𝖆𝖞𝖘 𝖇𝖊𝖊𝖓 𝖘𝖚𝖗𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖑𝖊𝖎𝖘𝖚𝖗𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖞" - Jane Austen 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 Many of the gothic novels that I have read and own have covers graced with faces. The last I read, surrounding my feet at this very moment, are testament to this fact. Rather than post 'Jekyll & Hyde' and 'Frankenstein' so soon after having discussed them last though, I thought I'd dig into my tbr (to be read pile, for the uninitiated) and face up to the classics I have thus far ignored. What I found was a delightful array of moustachioed men and artistic expression. Though I cannot yet comment with conviction on any of them, I do expect to find the gothically-tangent amongst their number, as all my 'not strictly gothic' reading tends to be. These are the texts with gothic themes, elements, or ideas, that exist more concretely within other genres. They are the texts that I claim as gothic simply to say, in my spooky nerd way, "I like it!" 🕷 Thank you to the lovely @booksfromfangorn 🖤 for tagging me in the #sixfacebookschallenge! 🔖: I've invited a few of you to find faces too, if you'd like (please tag me so I don't miss your creations!), but consider it an open invite to you all. 🕷 🤔: Outside your favourite genres, where do you turn? Is there a connection? Where have you been most surprised to find the gothic? . #bookstagram #bookchallenge #gothic #gothicnovel #darkliterature #philosophy #darkacademia #russianliterature #germanliterature #frenchliterature #englishliterature #classicliterature #classics2020 #tbr #toberead #bookworm #bookish #spookynerd #nietzsche #satre #dostoyevsky #golding #bulgakov #rilke #austen #booklover #londonreviewofbooks #shelfie https://www.instagram.com/p/CE_Z0QOAXWW/?igshid=rxc6dlulkr8n

[generallygothic]

"𝕲𝖎𝖗𝖑𝖘 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖕𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖗𝖘 𝖜𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖞 𝖑𝖎𝖛𝖊 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉, 𝖙𝖔 𝖇𝖊 𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖞 𝖇𝖚𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖋𝖑𝖎𝖊𝖘 𝖜𝖍𝖊𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖗 𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖘; 𝖇𝖚𝖙 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖊𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖌𝖗𝖚𝖇𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖑𝖆𝖗𝖛𝖆𝖊, 𝖉𝖔𝖓'𝖙 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖘𝖊𝖊 - 𝖊𝖆𝖈𝖍 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖗 𝖕𝖊𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖎𝖆𝖗 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘, 𝖓𝖊𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖚𝖈𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊." - Sheridan Le Fanu 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 Born this day, 1814: Sheridan Le Fanu (d. 1873), dark romantic author of the gothic and horror. Le Fanu is famous for his occult detective narratives, for his influence upon M. R. James and the Victorian era obsession with the ghost story, and for his atmospheric approach to horror. He is also known as author of vampire-fiction which, during this month's explorations 🧟‍♂️Of Monsters and Men🧟‍♂️, is of most interest to me today. Published in its entirety in 1872, the novella 'Carmilla' is the prototypical lesbian vampire narrative, predating Stoker's globally famous Dracula by almost three decades. (I hope it was understood that women are no less capable of monstrosity than men, and that I use the term 'man' in this month's theme title to denote '[hu]mankind'...) The text pictured though is actually a dramatisation of the monstrous classic of gothic fiction, which I admit I am yet to read. Le Fanu was known for reworking his fiction - developing shorter pieces into longer ones, and adapting past ideas into the new. I therefore imagine that he would be open to the idea of this play; that he would appreciate Carmilla having fresh blood pumped into it...💉. 🤔: Has anyone here read this adaptation? How do you feel about adaptations of classics, into new forms and new directions? . #sheridanlefanu #ofmonstersandmen #carmilla #mrjames #vampire #vampirefiction #vampirenovel #bookstagram #bookish #darkacademia #spookynerd #gothic #gothicnovel #gothicfiction #classics2020 #classicliterature #dracula #bramstoker #otd #bookworm #booknerd #bookphotography #lgbtreads #books #horror #lesbianvampire #englishliterature #academia #literaryhistory #bookquotes https://www.instagram.com/p/CEcpEKTgVG7/?igshid=1nsccdxfeq247

[generallygothic]

"𝕲𝖎𝖗𝖑𝖘 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖕𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖗𝖘 𝖜𝖍𝖎𝖑𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖞 𝖑𝖎𝖛𝖊 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉, 𝖙𝖔 𝖇𝖊 𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖞 𝖇𝖚𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖋𝖑𝖎𝖊𝖘 𝖜𝖍𝖊𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖚𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖗 𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖘; 𝖇𝖚𝖙 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖊𝖆𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖌𝖗𝖚𝖇𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖑𝖆𝖗𝖛𝖆𝖊, 𝖉𝖔𝖓'𝖙 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖘𝖊𝖊 - 𝖊𝖆𝖈𝖍 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖗 𝖕𝖊𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖎𝖆𝖗 𝖕𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖊𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘, 𝖓𝖊𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖚𝖈𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊." 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 Born this day, 1814: Sheridan Le Fanu (d. 1873), dark romantic author of the gothic and horror. Le Fanu is famous for his occult detective narratives, for his influence upon M. R. James and the Victorian era obsession with the ghost story, and for his atmospheric approach to horror. He is also known as author of vampire-fiction which, during this month's explorations 🧟‍♂️Of Monsters and Men🧟‍♂️, is of most interest to me today. Published in its entirety in 1872, the novella 'Carmilla' is the prototypical lesbian vampire narrative, predating Stoker's globally famous Dracula by almost three decades. (I hope it was understood that women are no less capable of monstrosity than men, and that I use the term 'man' in this month's theme title to denote '[hu]mankind'...) The text pictured though is actually a dramatisation of the monstrous classic of gothic fiction, which I admit I am yet to read. Le Fanu was known for reworking his fiction - developing shorter pieces into longer ones, and adapting past ideas into the new. I therefore imagine that he would be open to the idea of this play; that he would appreciate Carmilla having fresh blood pumped into it...💉. 🤔: Has anyone here read this adaptation? How do you feel about adaptations of classics, into new forms and new directions? . #sheridanlefanu #lefanu #carmilla #mrjames #vampire #vampirefiction #vampirenovel #bookstagram #bookish #darkacademia #spookynerd #gothic #gothicnovel #gothicfiction #classics2020 #classicliterature #dracula #bramstoker #otd #bookworm #booknerd #bookphotography #drama #books #horror #lesbianvampire #englishliterature #academia #literaryhistory #bookquotes https://www.instagram.com/p/CEcpEKTgVG7/?igshid=bwhj2begehpu

[generallygothic]

"𝕴 𝖘𝖆𝖙 𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖐𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖆𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖜𝖍𝖎𝖙𝖊 𝖇𝖊𝖉 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖔𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖉 𝖜𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖘 [...] 𝕴 𝖇𝖊𝖌𝖆𝖓 𝖙𝖔 𝖗𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖑𝖑 𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝕴 𝖍𝖆𝖉 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖉 𝖔𝖋 𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖉 𝖒𝖊𝖓 𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊𝖉 𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖗 𝖌𝖗𝖆𝖛𝖊𝖘." - Elizabeth Gaskell 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 The above quote is actually Elizabeth Gaskell (English novelist & biographer, contemporary to the Brontës) quoting Mary Jones, a school-friend of Charlotte Brontë, who in turn is paraphrasing a passage from Brontë's 'Jane Eyre' (1847). Suffice it to say 'The Life of Charlotte Brontë' is a black hole of quotation marks and inverted commas! In this particular section, Gaskell discusses the similarities between Brontë & her famous female protagonist through Jones' examples. Jones recalls Brontë confiding in her, recounting a fright she had had in the dark of night. Gaskell continues to quote Jones: "'From that night,' Mary adds, 'her imaginations became gloomy or frightful; she could not help it, nor help thinking. She could not forget the gloom, could not sleep at night, nor attend in the day.'" Gaskell paints an image of Brontë haunted by her psyche, particularly in the solitude of night, that is saddeningly like the females trapped in her novel. 🤔: How important is it to you to know about an author's process of & personal connection to a novel? When autobiographical suggestions are made, do you think it's often a case of correlation rather than causation - that we find what we're looking for by sheer force of will? (Read the previous posts in the 'Jane Eyre'/👁Gothic Psyche👁 series in stories.) . #gothicpsyche #janeeyre #gothicfiction #gothicliterature #englishliterature #classicliterature #classics2020 #gothic #generallygothic #madwoman #madwomanintheattic #elizabethgaskell #biography #bookish #books #librarybooks #bookstagram #bookworm #spookynerd #literarytheory #literarycontext #charlottebrontë #charlottebronte #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #depression #feministliterature #feminism #bookquote https://www.instagram.com/p/B9D8LelA8YL/?igshid=y8ma7vgqyf08

[generallygothic]

"𝕰𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖜𝖆𝖘 𝖇𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘, 𝖔𝖗 𝖉𝖆𝖗𝖐." - Jean Rhys 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 With 'Jane Eyre' on my mind, I recently picked Jean Rhys' 'Wide Sargasso Sea' (1966) up on a whim at the library. I opened it one evening. I was hooked. I paused to sleep. Awoke. Opened it again. And was done. It is short at under 200 pages, but size isn't everything, folks, and that wasn't the reason I couldn't put this book down. Whilst the concept of a continuation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 narrative was initially alluring, it is purely Rhys, and her writing, that maintained my attention. She has a captivating ability to create a world simultaneously vivid and unfamiliar with such clarity. Through flowers, names, and mirrors I will discuss the novel in greater detail at generallygothic.com once the day of pancakes or fat or average Tues is but a fond & syrupy memory. (For a notification of the new post, +follow the blog/keep an eye on stories!) . #generallygothic #gothic #gothicpsyche #widesargassosea #jeanrhys #janeeyre #charlottebrontë #charlottebronte #bookstagram #books #booknerd #bookworm #classicliterature #classics2020 #caribbean #caribbeangothic #spookynerd #mentalhealth #literaryanalysis #bookreview #review #library #librarybooks #bookquote #blogger #pancakeday #shrovetuesday #mardigras #fattuesday #blogpost https://www.instagram.com/p/B9BUBqSABK-/?igshid=1mcnl1tl0g6jq

[generallygothic]

"𝕬 𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖉𝖆𝖗𝖐𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘, 𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖕𝖆𝖎𝖗, 𝖉𝖎𝖘𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖎𝖔𝖓 - 𝖘𝖔 𝖇𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖞 𝖆𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖎𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖔 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖍𝖚𝖒𝖆𝖓 𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖉 𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝖇𝖊." - Sylvia Plath 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 The 25th anniversary edition of Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar' (1963, UK) is a uniquely exquisite publication. The text is unchanged - it is the same perfect depiction of the flawed and floundering Esther, reliving the emotions of Plath's own summer/autumn of 1953, that years ago I read and adored (& own on kindle). But this version has 2 great additions: a foreward by Harper & Row publisher, Frances McCullough, & Lois Ames' biography of the author, which includes 8 of Plath's previously unpublished illustrations (👉). Published just weeks before Plath's final, fatal suicide attempt*, 'The Bell Jar' is a deeply moving & important piece of literature, whether you relate to Esther or not. McCullough writes: "Now that it's become socially acceptable to talk about [mental health], it's easy to forget that reading 'The Bell Jar' brought us an understanding of the experience that made such openness possible." Aurelia Plath quoted her daughter in a letter to the publishing house when it became apparent that the novel was indeed set for North American release despite Plath's express will that the novel not be published in the US during her mother's lifetime. "I tried to picture my world and the people in it as through the distorting lens of a bell jar. My second book will show that same world as seen through the eyes of health." Tragically, of course, Plath's suicide prevented her from reaching the place from which to write that second book we'll never read, but 'The Bell Jar' has its own transformative powers. It offers comfort in simply being there. (*I unknowingly sought Plath on this recent anniversary, the 11th of Feb. 🖤) . #gothicpsyche #thebelljar #sylviaplath #plath #gothic #generallygothic #books #bookish #feministliterature #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #asylum #confessionalliterature #poet #suicide #bookstagram #spookynerd #classics2020 #modernclassic #booknerd #bookworm #illustration #publisher #literaryhistory #bookquote #librarybooks https://www.instagram.com/p/B8vJbNKl4sR/?igshid=10c5cpxhp5o44

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"[𝕷]𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖓 𝖙𝖔 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖎𝖗 𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖛𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖚𝖘 𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖌𝖍𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖌𝖔𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖘, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖍𝖆𝖚𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖋𝖎𝖊𝖑𝖉𝖘, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖍𝖆𝖚𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖇𝖗𝖔𝖔𝖐𝖘, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖍𝖆𝖚𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖇𝖗𝖎𝖉𝖌𝖊𝖘, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖍𝖆𝖚𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖉 𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊𝖘, 𝖆𝖓𝖉..." - Washington Irving 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 September is, to me, an annually exciting month filled, as it is, with anticipation and imminent change. Leaves begin to twist and turn. Schools open their doors (and, this year, their windows too I hope!💨); education is in the air. Spookiness is set free. September is on the cusp of seasons; with a foot in summer, it faces autumn. It is a time when we seem to squirrel books away with greater urgency - gathering for the dark, long nights, or perhaps for learning. Even in adulthood, I am destined to honour the temporal construct of the academic year. This back-to-school energy has me thinking a little more acutely about why I began this project: to continue on my gothic journey & to promote equality - not elitism - in academic knowledge. To this end, I was thinking about curating a little list of ghost stories on the blog - an online library of texts available to all. 🤔: Would you be interested in a collection of classic ghost stories, all available to read online, or has it been done too often before? . #glimpsesofghosts #ghosts #gothic #generallygothic #bookish #bookstagram #darkacademia #academia #spookynerd #spooky #haunted #shortstories #ghoststories #spookyseason #spookytbr #bookblogger #bookrecommendation #horrorstory #victorianghosts #ghost #spirits #classicghoststories #history #victorianliterature #englishliterature #classicliterature #fallreads #spookyreads #classics2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/CFU7M7Pg9lZ/?igshid=1odlnernsps66

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“[𝕹]𝖔 𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖓 𝖆 𝖘𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖑𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖉: ‘𝖉𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊'” - Robert Louis Stevenson 🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️ Last month I hosted two monstrous readalongs. Each was hugely enjoyable with all thanks due to every one of you that participated in any way 🖤. First was Robert Louis Stevenson's Victorian novella, 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', published in 1886. I know that spooky season has begun and it's supposed to be all ghosties and ghoulies over here for September, but I'll risk a haunting for this... Duality is at the heart of the monster narrative, and is key to understanding both 'Jekyll and Hyde', and 'Frankenstein' too. The duality in 'Jekyll and Hyde' is manifold, presenting in moral, religious, and scientific debate, narrative structure, and, of course, the characters themselves. Today on the blog, I have chosen to explore the slightly less commonly discussed duality of house and home 🔗: link in bio. Whether you joined the readalong or not, I’d love to hear what you think. 🤔: What do you make of the representation of houses in 'The Strange Case...'? Where else do you found duality in the novella? Where else have you seen similar representations of houses beyond 'Jekyll and Hyde'? And if you want to learn more about monsters in literature, check out the latest post @booksfromfangorn published on her own blog, under my 🧟‍♂️Of Monsters and Men🧟‍♂️ theme. You'll find the link to that in my bio too 👾! . #victorianliterature #bookstagram #shortstories #horrorstories #spookynerd #spooky #spookyseason #gothicliterature #gothicfiction #gothicnovel #gothic #bookphotography #bookquote #classicliterature #englishliterature #bookblogger #academia #victorianera #victorianhistory #frankenstein #maryshelley #robertlouisstevenson #thestrangecaseofdrjekyllandmrhyde #jekyllandhyde #bookreview #classicliterature #classics2020 #bookblog #ofmonstersandmen https://www.instagram.com/p/CEuV_uLgqxD/?igshid=oulqza3u4q2

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"𝕿𝖍𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝖜𝖔𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖋𝖚𝖑 𝖓𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖎𝖓𝖘𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖉 𝖒𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖊 𝖋𝖊𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘. 𝖂𝖆𝖘 𝖒𝖆𝖓, 𝖎𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖊𝖉, 𝖆𝖙 𝖔𝖓𝖈𝖊 𝖘𝖔 𝖕𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖗𝖋𝖚𝖑, 𝖘𝖔 𝖛𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖚𝖔𝖚𝖘, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖓𝖎𝖋𝖎𝖈𝖊𝖓𝖙, 𝖞𝖊𝖙 𝖘𝖔 𝖛𝖎𝖈𝖎𝖔𝖚𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖇𝖆𝖘𝖊?" - Mary Shelley 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 On this day, 1797, Mary Shelley was born. Like the nameless monster of her perpetually popular novel 'Frankenstein', Mary is inextricably associated with her lineage. Her mother, Mary Wollestonecraft was a female rights advocate. Her father, William Godwin was a political activist and philosopher. Both were writers. By the age of just 18, Mary had lost her mother (shortly following Shelley's birth) and her own first child, was estranged from her father, was pregnant (again) by Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and had begun writing 'Frankenstein'. Demonstrative of the duality - the highs & lows, good & bad - of reality, Shelley explores the relationship 🧟‍♂️Of Monsters and Men🧟‍♂️ with enduring relevance. 🕷 🔗: In past honour of Shelley, I wrote a deeply spoilery post on 'Frankenstein', beginning with the science of the novel, which you can find at the link in bio. I'd love to hear your thoughts if you read it! 🕷 With just one day of the Generally Gothic Frankenstein readalong remaining, I shall celebrate by baking and then finishing the 1818 edition of the novel (and an indeterminate quantity of scones and/or cake) before diving headfirst into the illuminating (thanks to all involved!) and neglected (thanks to all my irl responsibilities!) group chat 🙌🖤. . #maryshelley #frankenstein #ofmonstersandmen #readalong #bookstagram #gothicliterature #gothicnovel #englishliterature #marywollestonecraft #williamgodwin #percybyssheshelley #theromantics #literaryhistory #englishclass #baking #currentlyreading #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #frankensteinsmonster #bookworm #booknerd #bookblogger #spookynerd #litnerd #classics2020 #classicliterature #monster #history #bookquote https://www.instagram.com/p/CEg7hVdgaii/?igshid=9rq43weaa3od

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"𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕸𝖔𝖗𝖌𝖚𝖊 𝖎𝖘 𝖆 𝖘𝖍𝖔𝖜 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖆𝖓𝖞𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝖈𝖆𝖓 𝖆𝖋𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖉, 𝖜𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖍 𝖕𝖔𝖔𝖗 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖍 𝖕𝖆𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖗𝖘-𝖇𝖞 𝖌𝖊𝖙 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖋𝖗𝖊𝖊." -Émile Zola 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷 Zola's 'Thérèse Raquin' is a scandalous depiction of illicit love, murder, deceit, gender, and suppression in the distant Paris of the 1860s. Published in that same stifled era in 1868, the novel was denounced as pornographic and "putrid." Some tried to ban it... but it was a public and critical success! A sinister side of Paris is revealed (I'll remain vague and spoiler-free) to the reader, through a young painter named Laurent; science, sex, and death are presented as connected. In the morgue, the narrator describes a moment with the corpse of an attractive, young woman: "Laurent looked at her for a long time, studying her flesh, absorbed in a kind of fearful lust." For this (and other) reason[s], I thought often of L'Inconnue de la Seine - the Unknown Woman of the Seine - who according to legend was discovered, dead, in the Parisian river in the 1880s. Captivated by her beauty, the mortician cast a death mask of the young stranger who Albert Camus later likened to the Mona Lisa. The mask became popular, & widely reproduced - this unidentified face was displayed decoratively throughout the homes of contemporary Bohemian society. And then, in the 1950s, her likeness was taken and applied to the first CPR training mannequins. From the 1960s to this day, Rescusi Anne shares her image with an unknown drowned girl... making hers perhaps the most-kissed face in history! 💋 👉: Swipe to take a peek at her face. 📸: Via Wiki Commons. . #horriblehistories #gothichistory #generallygothic #gothic #thereseraquin #emilezola #zola #albertcamus #camus #frenchliterature #literatureintranslation #murder #rescusianne #monalisa #sein #laseine #paris #frechhistory #bohemia #bohemian #bookstagram #classics #classics2020 #bookish #bookworm #spookynerd #darkacademia #bookcover #quote https://www.instagram.com/p/B9a4gRzgCp9/?igshid=1medwjad4hko0