Girl From the North Country: Musical Prognostication
By my count, Bob Dylan has written or co-written 657 songs. So what are my chances of predicting which songs …
Category Archives: Reviews: Books, Theater, Film
Georgette’s Gentlemen, or Heyer’s Heroes
Georgette Heyer’s Georgian and Regency novels have long been marketed as “women’s romance fiction,” which means that men are unlikely …
Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen
Many readers of Georgette Heyer remark that her works are “the next best thing to reading Jane Austen.” There are …
Beautiful Men in Screwball Comedies
Screwball comedy, a genre invented during the Depression, often features a madcap woman (think Claudette Colbert, Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck) embroiling …
“Taken”: Masculinity, Memes, and Liam Neeson
Last night I watched Taken in order to find out what all the fuss was about, since this hit film has spawned …
Devil’s Delight: Georgette Heyer’s Eighteenth-Century Romances
Georgette Heyer is best-known for her frothy Regency romances, set during the early nineteenth century (in the days of Jane …
Jane Eyre on Page and Screen 19: Reunion with Rochester
“Yes, I love Jane Eyre,” said an English professor friend of mine. “But… that ending!” She shook her head, smiling …
The Cook, The POTUS, His Wife and Her Lover
When Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover was released twenty-eight years ago, it went unrated in the US …
The People Speak: Ciarán Hinds in “Jane Eyre”
As part of my Jane Eyre blog series, I’ve been reading through lots of reviews on Amazon to see how film versions …
Jane Eyre on Page and Screen 18: Missionary Man
I’ve often thought that the Eurhythmics’ song “Missionary Man” could have been inspired by St. John Rivers. The Missionary Man, …
