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Victorian serial fiction & early film. Wrote a book on literary theory & criticism. Silent reading is very important. www.stevenjventurino.com
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“If they originated with no woman, I believe that no man ever before had the art of making himself, mentally, so like a woman, since the world began. . . .
Your obliged and faithful Servant, and Admirer,
Charles Dickens”
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“I have observed what seem to me to be such womanly touches, in those moving fictions, that the assurance on the title-page is insufficient to satisfy me, even now.
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“I can suggest no better one; but I should have been strongly disposed, if I had been left to my own devices, to address the said writer as a woman.
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It’s theft first
It’s a constitutional crisis because no one is going to do anything about the theft
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If you go to the Smithsonian American Art Museum right now you can see an openly-queer tribute to James Baldwin, an installation about the erasure of lesbians and trans people from Stonewall, and a full exhibit about American women between the wars who fled to Paris to be gay and make art.
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I do trust the actors, director, and screenwriter (Andrew Davies) on this.
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For example, Brooke at 13:50, and Brooke and Dorothea at 37:30.
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The characters in the 1994 BBC adaptation say KAZZ-uh-bon.
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A
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Shocked. Shocked.
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You bet your bippy!
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Andrei Rublev and the human miracle of art.
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