Word: victorian
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...when PBS aired the Forsyte Saga--a 26-part Victorian-Edwardian mini-series based on John Galsworthy's novels--it was revolutionary. Years before The Sopranos, it showed Americans that TV could tell stories as novels do. Its success led PBS to create Masterpiece Theatre--it was the soap that launched a thousand bustles. To say that remaking the show now is not quite so daring is kind. To be unkind--and honest--it only bolsters the criticism that PBS these days is redundant and irrelevant...
...pictures, many of the "little misses" he doted on all his life. There has never been evidence that Carroll took advantage of them sexually. But over time those pictures, along with his rapturous diary entries about his prepubescent "girl-friends," have made Carroll something like the Michael Jackson of Victorian letters. The more he goes on about children, the more he gives you the creeps...
...specialist in the Victorian novel, Price has published broadly on 19th- and 20th-century British fiction, especially how anthologies, abridgements and compilations of quotations have changed the way the novels have been received...
Price has taught several courses at Harvard, including a freshman seminar “Victorian Literature and Technology,” an introductory course “Rhetorics of Reading” and honors seminars “Sexing Victorian Fiction” and “Gender Writing in Victorian Culture...
...Orchid," (Sparkplug Comic Books; $8; 116pp.) contains seven black and white adaptations of Victorian-era short stories, all of which involve shocking apparitions. It's a brilliant conceit by editors Ben Catmull and Dylan Williams. The most amusing of these is "Tobermory," adapted by Gabrielle Bell from a story by H.H. Munro, about a housecat who, upon being taught to speak, reveals its owner's most embarrassing secrets. Fantastic animals become a kind of sub-theme, as in David Lasky's adaptation of E.A. Poe's "The Raven." Testing the definition of a comic, instead of containing distinct images...