Why did nineteenth-century novels return, over again, to the scene of theater? Emily Allen argues that theater provided nineteenth-century novels, novelists, and critics with a generic figure that allowed them to position particular novels and novelistic genres within a complex literary field. Novel genres high and low, male and female, public and private, realistic and romantic, all came to identify themselves within a set of coordinates that included--if only for the purpose of exclusion--the spectacular figure of theater. This figure likewise provided a trope around and against which to...
Why did nineteenth-century novels return, over again, to the scene of theater? Emily Allen argues that theater provided nineteenth-century novels, nov...
Since I was little it seemed I had a knack for getting myself into situations or what I call "adventures" and the older I got those "adventures" followed me. These "adventures" range from getting the farm animals drunk on homemade wine; memories of mom and dad; recipes my mom made and then my older years that include the day my hand got stuck in the bank drive thru, the day the bull ran loose in town and then the day they thought Belk's was being robbed by a balloon. Of course as the stories unfolded we didn't think they were so funny, but at every get together it had became a tradition that...
Since I was little it seemed I had a knack for getting myself into situations or what I call "adventures" and the older I got those "adventures" follo...