Occasional diary
Paul NorrisThoughts about various topics occasioned by studying a PhD in English literature.
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I was wrong about The Bostonians
A few days ago, I wrote a post about Henry James’s The Bostonians in which I argued that the 1886 novel sets up a choice between private life and public service, without allowing the reader’s sympathies to fall definitively one way or the o...
The Bostonians
The Bostonians nearly killed Henry James’s career. He published the novel in 1886, the same year as The Princess Casamassima. Both books deal with unusually political subject-matter for the usually recondite James, and both were commercial...
Farewell to Botley
Oxford is a watery city, ‘river-rounded’, an inland Venice. This gives it an odd shape. Look at a map of the place and you’ll see a small medieval nub, around which tendrils grow north, south, and west. The thickest of these is the former,...
Writing at scale
An article a few months ago, in a popular magazine of political and cultural affairs I will not name for fear of losing friends, described how students of literature at an American university were unable to make head or tail of a passage of...
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Wanting to use this blog more, I have proposed a pair of rules to myself. First, not to use the Internet at all while writing. To avoid looking at notes or books is a target of opportunity, something I managed in this instalment but might n...
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