tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post5838170277502268998..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: You could not live among such people - George Eliot runs circles around meAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-91367797549811429712009-06-29T16:55:56.370-05:002009-06-29T16:55:56.370-05:00Briefly researching Dinah Craik, at your suggestio...Briefly researching Dinah Craik, at your suggestion, I found that the two most-requested books from the English lending libraries in 1859 were <i>Adam Bede</i> and <i>A Life for a Life</i> by Dinah Craik.<br /><br />And it turns out my local library, which apparently does not de-accession, has a dozen or so Dinah Craik titles. Poems, fairy tales, novels.<br /><br />I'm not in a hurry to read her, but I love knowing about this stuff. So thanks for the pointer.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-11456671122990857752009-06-29T16:43:24.937-05:002009-06-29T16:43:24.937-05:00I read Mrs. Craik while working on my masters thes...I read Mrs. Craik while working on my masters thesis on late Victorian lit. so I was in the right frame of mind for her. I can't say she's "good" but I did enjoy Olive. It's one of the best selling novels of the 19th century so it was very interesting to see what the general public was buying lots of in those times.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06906212382849291562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-47037275155735678222009-06-28T22:47:15.223-05:002009-06-28T22:47:15.223-05:00I've actually become more convinced that relig...I've actually become more convinced that religious concerns were central to almost all of the great Victorian novelists. Earlyish ones, at least. And that's aside from all of that amazing, 'orrible stuff <a href="http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/" rel="nofollow">The Little Professor</a> reads.<br /><br />Perhaps I'm too easily blending ethical concerns with religious ones, though. Although that's actually Maggie Tulliver's path - her great conflict in the last part of the novel is in no way specifically religious.<br /><br />I have not read - had not heard of - Dinah Craik. Is she good?<br /><br />I have little doubt that Maggie Tulliver and George Eliot are closely related in a lot of ways. I'm not sure that gets me anywhere, though. Ideas very welcome.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-91231341506313318102009-06-28T03:59:48.745-05:002009-06-28T03:59:48.745-05:00I wonder, indeed, if Eliot isn't sticking a bi...I wonder, indeed, if Eliot isn't sticking a bit of herself in Maggie's religious realizations, or a bit of the self she might have wanted. I'll need to reread "The Mill on the Floss" (which I thought was brilliant upon the first read, let's see how it holds up...) and figure out for myself all of this, but it's great stuff so far.Meytal Radzinskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15805413335735169073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-77839455133244518972009-06-26T20:24:30.126-05:002009-06-26T20:24:30.126-05:00Insightful stuff here. I think Eliot was more con...Insightful stuff here. I think Eliot was more concerned with questions of religion and faith than many of her contemporaries. She was the daughter of a clergyman, yes? Her first book is Scenes of a Clerical Life or something like that.<br /><br />The mid-nineteenth century population was very concerned with questions of faith and the loss of faith. Have you read Olive by Dinal Craik? Gaskell looks at this issue as well in North and South.<br /><br />They were the century that first encountered Darwin afterall. Must have been quite an eyeopener.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06906212382849291562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-50706323988630918522009-06-26T11:24:50.291-05:002009-06-26T11:24:50.291-05:00"boys, and the novels of Walter Scott, are so..."boys, and the novels of Walter Scott, are sore temptations" - for most of us, I suspect.Bookphiliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05155882653615842141noreply@blogger.com