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Thomas Love Peacock: Irony and British Common Sense
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866) is not as famous as other nineteenth-century British writers, but his fame rests on his conversational...
Andre Di Carlo
16 lug 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Some Notes on T.S. Eliot: for a Complex Modernism
From an epistemological point of view, the nineteenth century bade defiance to long-established knowledge. Lyell and Darwin, through...
Andrea Di Carlo
9 giu 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Wolf Hall, or Early Modern England
2009 and 2015: these two years marked an important moment in British literary and cinematographic industry. In 2009, Hilary Mantel wrote...
Andrea Di Carlo
28 mag 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Shakespeare: 400 years later
In German they call it Nachleben, the reception of a literary figure or an epoch at later stages. On April the 23rd, the whole world is...
Andrea Di Carlo
23 apr 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
William Shakespeare: to be continued
In the light of Shakespeare’s celebrations this year, it is opportune to review his background because the Romantic incertitude...
Andrea Di Carlo
16 apr 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Youth by Joseph Conrad
England, end of the 19th Century. A group of men, all belonging to the merchant navy, are having some drinks, while talking about their...
Antonella Codeferi
10 apr 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Before She Met Me: an Anatomy of Jealousy
Before she met me by Julian Barnes is the perfect example of a book you should never give to your partner as a Valentine gift....
Francesca Laura Cersosimo
13 feb 2016Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Laughing in the 50s: Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
First book published by Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim is regarded as one of the best comic books of all times. Well, times have changed, but...
Francesca Laura Cersosimo
3 dic 2015Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is a classic. Many of us have read it, many haven't. Still, it is a milestone in literature, so one should...
Francesca Laura Cersosimo
18 nov 2015Tempo di lettura: 2 min
Lord Byron in the hand of Mary Shelley
"Lord Byron in the Hand of Mary Shelley" is a temporary exhibition held at the Keats-Shelley House, in Piazza di Spagna 26, until...
Francesca Laura Cersosimo
22 set 2015Tempo di lettura: 2 min
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