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I chose this book so that I could understand Jane Eyre, better. I have attempted to read it before years ago. So this time I am approaching it from a different angle. Bildungsroman is the plot style that Eyre is written in, and I want to understand this plot as a writer. And of course the classics are always a way to learn something new.

This white man academic is twisting himself into knots to deny any queer reading of Mrs. Dalloway, and the effort is strenuous.

This is an unusual reading of Wuthering Heights, but frankly, I'm not buying it. To say that it's beyond sex and sexuality is to skip over highly eroticized and sexually charged passages. I think this is a rather cozy reading of a book which made me so angry, I threw it across the room when I was done reading it.

Emily Bronte imagined that children could experience wholeness and vision as a part of their daily lives