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While mocking popular melodramas of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England, Ruddygore is a melodrama in its own right. The plot revolves around a country gentleman Robin Oakapple (Phillip Resnick) who has run away from his position as the duke of Murgatroyd because in order to be duke, he must follow a long-standing family tradition and (of course) commit a crime a day. Oakapple falls in love with the beautiful village maiden Rose Maybud (Erika Fox Zabusky) who has a particular fetish with etiquette...
...student of Afro-American history I find Mr. Conway's short-sighted patemalism disturbingly reminiscent of that of many Northern whites of the early nineteenth century. Claiming to represent the interests of Black people, these men fought the abolition of slavery because they felt that the resulting freedmen would be worse off than they had been as slaves. The parallel becomes still more striking when one remembers that in the meantime, ex-slaves such as Frederick Douglass fought vehemently for abolition. Just as these Northern whites chose to ignore Douglass (no doubt feeling that they knew better than...
Stalking the French is nothing very new. Nineteenth-century geographers gave the sport its lore, and "nombrilism"--the notion that France was the navel of the world--tried to bring to the French people the order, place and nationality that history and circumstance had not. These days, though, such certainty is far off. In distinguishing the French fact from the myth, historians not only fear generalizations--the mark of any good culture-watcher--but fail to draw any conclusions whatsoever...
...consonants and internal rhyming--and then suddenly hit a resounding, one-syllabic word with a long vowel. Such techniques allow him to reemphasize the language of poetry, as distinct from prose, without seeming artificial. The elegance of Williamson's tone lends him the dramatic, questioning role of the nineteenth-century German poet Rainer Maria Rilke in "Leaving for Islands...
...their son's homesickness and general unhappiness there. In the letters he wrote at Yale and as a field artillery officer in France in 1918, a somewhat romantic earnestness begins to mingle with Ivy League wit. Though a little grating in tone, these letters provide some striking glimpses of nineteenth-century consciousness trying to make sense of the monstrous twentieth. "The thunderbolts of the King of Olympus were not more terrible." MacLeish writes, than his first view of modern warfare...