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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
It's a thing of the past: John Donne's methaphysical poetry
The sixteenth century witnessed a real rupture in the European socio-cultural fabric: geographical discoveries marked the isolation of...
Andrea Di Carlo
7 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
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