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empirearchives · 11 months

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#crime and punishment #Dostoevsky #Dostoyevsky #Raskolnikov #Napoleon #napoleonic #napoleonic era #first french empire #Russian lit #russian literature #lit #literature #19th century lit #19th century literature #1800s #fyodor dostoevsky #Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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edwardian-girl-next-door · 9 months

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"-- that look, full of love she gave him, to which he made no response, cut her to the heart with an agony of shame."

~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (tr. Constance Garnett, Leonard J. Kent, & Nina Berberova)

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heinrichheineee · 15 days

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Nathaniel Hawthorne writing about Herman Melville. Journal entry date: November 12, 1856

“It is strange how he persists — and has persisted ever since I knew him, and probably long before”

Source: Jay Leyda, The Melville Log, A Documentary Life of Herman Melville: 1819-1891, vol. II

#Nathaniel Hawthorne #Hawthorne #Herman Melville #Melville #american lit #american literature #literature #romanticism #1800s #19th century lit #19th century literature #1800s literature #journal #The Melville Log #jay leyda #leyda

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sadbookworm · 1 year

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I want some good Stewards and Land Agents

I am reading some 19th century Irish and Anglo-Irish literature and the steward or land agent being villain keeps popping up. The past few years I’ve been reading historical romance novels, which have an overpopulation of taller than average dukes and earls and the only time an agent is mentioned is when they’ve been swindling the main character’s father. I have watched Downton Abbey minimum 3 times and I like Tom Branson. However, Robert makes Tom the agent as a way to give him a job that is a step up from being a servant and keep Sybie around. So I’ve found one story where the agent a sympathetic character, but the set up for him and Sybil is “daughter of a lord and a servant,” not agent or steward as a MC. I also like Bertie Pelham for Edith on a character level, but the drama of their story steps up when he becomes a lord, not on living as an agent and a magazine owner.

I think it extremely unlikely that I’ll encounter any 19th century literature that focuses on the life of a land agent or steward, though it would be interesting to see.

In historical romance, we see lords and ladies paired, we see lords and servants paired, the very occasional young lady with stable boy / footman, fortune hunters and wealthy widows, occasionally a crime lord and lady etc. And as I said, lots and lots of dukes. But there is more to 18th and 19th century British society than servants and aristocrats, and I would like to see some middlemen in the mix. How about an ethical steward desperately trying to protect the farmers from his lord’s greedy rent raising? Maybe the lord’s family stays in their country house, and the young lordlings cause trouble. Maybe the lord and the big family isn’t one to cause trouble but are nosy and the agent just wants to spend time with the local doctor?

I see a lot of potential stories that could be dramatic and romantic without necessarily having one half of the couple being presented at court or being ridiculously rich.

Any recommendations for me? Or should I just start writing what I want to read?

#bookblr #19th century lit #19th century literature #irish literature #historical romance #the wild irish girl #the Absentee #sydney Owenson #Lady morgan #maria edgeworth #writing ideas #downton abbey #tom branson

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amarrymeinbostonwriter · 1 year

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The official book list from The Great American Read, 2018. PBS held a vote to find out what America's favorite books were. And this was the top 100. I voted for Wuthering Heights several times (we were allowed to vote several times over a certain time period).

Already Read:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Sun also Rises by Earnest Hemmingway

The Lion, Witch, and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (only read the first book in this series)

Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (unfortunately I read all 4 of the original books from the mid 2000s)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gone with The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Harry Potter (books 1 and 6- I did not read the whole series) by J.K. Rowling

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (I have read the first 3 books)

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Memoirs of a Geisha by William Golden

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

1984 by George Orwell

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Call of The Wild by Jack London

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

Want to Read This Year:

Tales of The City by Armistead Maupin (currently reading)

Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The remaining books on the list that I have not read yet, some of which I doubt I will ever read for a variety of reasons. But I figured I'd share this list because I mentioned it on an earlier post.

#I've read 28 of them and 4 of them are on my TBR shelf for this year #I already know I'm only going to read maybe half of these #I forgot how bad some of these were #and that includes many of the ones I read already #popular does not necessarily mean good #books #bookblr #classic lit #american lit #brit lit #19th century lit #20th century lit #21st century lit #literature #The Great American Read #I own copies of all the want to reads for this year above #my tbr is like 1350 books or something but most of the books I want to read are not on this list

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anaozorismo · 10 months

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H. Levin - The gates of horn: A study of five french realist

#quotes #literature #h levin #19th century lit #mine

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lovejakecallerworld · 1 year

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Reading the Classics Updated

Reading the Classics Updated Reading G Keith Chesterton George Elliot Novels Stuart Woods RIP Reading the Classics Reading the Classics Updated Lists As some of you know I have been reading the classics. I found a three-volume series on Kindle titled 50 books you must read before you die, and also found the Harvard classics. I will write a review of each book as I finish it. This will probably…

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#19th century lit #classics

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burningvelvet · 2 months

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my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “laudanum-dosed wine at the villa diodati on lake geneva in 1816” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever i don’t feel shit

5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw mary shelley and claire clairmont talking about reanimation and vampires with lord byron

my buddy percy pacing: dr. john polidori is plotting against us and my wifes nipples have been replaced by eyeballs

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earlgrey24 · 6 days

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TAG YOURSELF AS A MEMBER OF THE GENEVA SQUAD!

Parts of it are very cringe but parts of it - well, still cringe, but worth sharing I think

#english lit #english literature #english lit memes #literature memes #1800s #19th century #geneva squad #lord byron #mary shelley #percy bysshe shelley #john polidori #claire clairmont #tag yourself #tag yourself meme #do kids still do those?#Claire is a lot but also like my spirit animal #literature #frankenstein

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tygerland · 11 months

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0dilon Redon À Edgar Poe . 1882. A series of six lithographic prints inspired by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe.

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archaic-stranger · 5 months

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thinking about the guy i met who had never heard of jane austen or any of the brontës and when i said they were some of my favorite authors asked if i was "on some feminism kick"

#he had an otherwise good knowledge of 19th century lit too??#but women weren't invented until the 1950s i guess #i work with this guy and i think about it EVERY TIME I SEE HIM

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empirearchives · 11 months

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Lord Byron and Napoleon

Someone responded to my Lord Byron post saying they were surprised Lord Byron liked Napoleon. Let’s just say this, Lord Byron was obsessed with Napoleon. He was his “alter ego.” He loved him.

Like most of the Romantics, Napoleon was his muse. He was not a propagandist. He was able to write about Napoleon in a nuanced way and explore different aspects. For example, his “Ode Napoleon Buonaparte” is a sharp criticism which expresses his utter disappointment in Napoleon for abdicating. He hated Napoleon for his defeat, but he loved him for his cause.

Lord Byron had a bust of Napoleon since he was a young boy. He modelled his carriage on Napoleon’s carriage. He had engravings of Napoleon in his room and collected mementos of Napoleon long after his death in 1821. He referred to Napoleon as his “little pagod.” People around him said that the vicissitudes of Napoleon’s life affected his personality. He mattered to him a lot. This is what he said in a letter to his friend after Napoleon’s defeat: “I detest the cause and the victors – and the victory.” (Quote source)

He was hard on Napoleon because he believed in him, but he was devotedly loyal. Notice that he died in exile, just like Napoleon. Thomas Medwin explains that Lord Byron admired Napoleon so much that he came to envy him. Like Beethoven, his admiration turned into a desire to replicate. Beethoven once said he wanted “to conquer” the conqueror.

If anyone is interested in learning more about Lord Byron and Napoleon, I’ve provided some links. Any good book about Lord Byron should mention it. But most biographies about Napoleon will not mention it because it was a parasocial relationship for Lord Byron.

Some but not all sources on the topic:

Between Emperor and Exile: Byron and Napoleon (source)

Byron’s Napoleonic Poems (source)

Beethoven, Byron, and Bonaparte - part 1 (source)

Beethoven, Byron, and Bonaparte - part 2 (source)

Lord Byron Reacts to the News - Napoleon's 100 Days (source)

Lord Byron and Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte between the Ode and Waterloo (source)

Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron […] in the Years 1821 and 1822, By Thomas Medwin (source)

Manuscript of Byron’s additional stanzas to ‘Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte,’ 1814 (source)

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edwardian-girl-next-door · 9 months

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"She was enchanting in her simple black dress, enchanting were her round arms with their bracelets, fascinating the straying curls of her loose hair, enchanting the graceful, light movement of her little feet and hands, enchanting was that lovely face in its animation, but there was something terrible and cruel about her charm."

~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (tr. Constance Garnett, Leonard J. Kent, & Nina Berberova)

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heinrichheineee · 7 months

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Friedrich Hölderlin, Hyperion

#Friedrich Hölderlin #Hölderlin #Hyperion #quotes #quote #romanticism #german romanticism #literature #lit #german literature #1800s #1800s literature #19th century lit

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thoughtportal · 1 year

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The Yellow Book https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41875 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41876

The Savoy (periodical) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Savoy_%28periodical%29 https://archive.org/details/savoy01symo/ https://archive.org/details/savoy02symo/ https://archive.org/details/savoy03symo/

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hagumiki · 1 year

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absolutely fell in love with this story after reading it

#the yellow wallpaper #charlotte perkins gilman #19th century #feminist literature #shitpost #lit memes

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