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The Radical Politics of A Christmas Carol

The Radical Politics of A Christmas Carol

Originally published on the Ploughshares blog on 24th December 2021. When Charles Dickens set out to write A Christmas Carol, he was not concerned with distilling the essence of the Christmas spirit in a tale of redemption and festive cheer that

Victoria Addis January 1, 2023January 1, 2023 Blog, Critical Essays, Victorian Literature No Comments Read more

Uncanny Masculinities

Uncanny Masculinities

This post originally appeared on the Ploughshares blog in December 2019 The dark side of contemporary British masculinity is explored through superstition and folklore in two recent novels by British authors, Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss and The Devil’s Footprints by John Burnside. Moss’s

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The Woman in “The Woman in the Dunes”

The Woman in “The Woman in the Dunes”

This post originally appeared on the Ploughshares blog in November 2019 Kobo Abe’s 1962 novel, The Woman in the Dunes, translated into English by E. Dale Saunders in 1964, delineates in simple yet evocative prose one man’s experience of unjust capture and

Victoria Addis May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 Blog, Critical Essays, Translated Fiction No Comments Read more

Preludes to Lady Macbeth: Shakespeare’s Scheming Women

Preludes to Lady Macbeth: Shakespeare’s Scheming Women

Shakespeare’s early scheming women—Joan of Arc, Eleanor Duchess of Gloucester, and Margaret of Anjou—share a set of overlapping traits. They are each driven by their ambition for ever greater power, which distorts their femininity into something unnatural.

Victoria Addis February 29, 2020February 29, 2020 Blog, Critical Essays, Shakespeare No Comments Read more

Imagination and the American West

Imagination and the American West

This post originally appeared on the Ploughshares blog in August 2019. The Old West is a place of myth as well as of history. Popularized through the Western genre, the mythological West is commonly associated with the activities of cowboys, gunslingers,

Victoria Addis February 12, 2020February 12, 2020 Blog, Critical Essays, Fiction No Comments Read more

Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser

Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser

This post originally appeared in Cleveland Review of Books Caroline Fraser’s Prairie Fires is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the internationally famous Little House books. In it, Fraser tells a story of sweeping historical significance,

Victoria Addis December 7, 2019July 10, 2021 American Fiction, Blog, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction No Comments Read more

The Cozy Horror of the Fairytale Mode in The Pillowman

The Cozy Horror of the Fairytale Mode in The Pillowman

This post originally appeared on the Ploughshares blog in July 2019. Traditional fairytales, despite their reputation as stories for young children, are replete with horror and gore. The fairytale genre is one in which evil queens dance themselves to death

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The Unexpected Feminism of Elena Ferrante’s Scorned Woman

The Unexpected Feminism of Elena Ferrante’s Scorned Woman

This post originally appeared on the Ploughshares blog in June 2019. Originally published in 2002, The Days of Abandonment sits uncomfortably in its cultural moment. Elena Ferrante’s examination of the spiraling decline of an abandoned wife resists the hopefulness of the girl-power-era,

Victoria Addis June 26, 2019February 13, 2020 Blog, Critical Essays, Translated Fiction No Comments Read more

Epicurean Happiness in a Post-Post-Apocalyptic World

Epicurean Happiness in a Post-Post-Apocalyptic World

This post originally appeared on the Ploughshares blog in May 2019. Philosophies for achieving genuine happiness and a good life are never intended to create dystopias. Nevertheless, many writers enjoy taking these ideas to their extremes, creating in their fictions

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Art and Power in The Noise of Time

Art and Power in The Noise of Time

This post originally appeared on the Ploughshares blog in April 2019. In The Noise of Time, Julian Barnes examines the relationship between art and power, or, more specifically, between individual creativity and a controlling state. The novella is a fictionalized biography

Victoria Addis April 20, 2019December 7, 2019 Blog, Critical Essays No Comments Read more
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