Morphosis

= 1 = Having taught Victorian literature for, ooh (I tremble to think) decades now, I’m struck by the easy condescension modern stude...

'Achilles is brave as a lion' is a simile. So far, so elementary. But what do we call this simile ?-- He's a poor man, as emp...

I've had one of those realisations that, after you have them, makes you feel slow-witted and belated and a bit dim. Surely everybody und...

Stop sniggering! This is a brief chapbook, published in the US in the very middle of the 19th-century, and aimed at the moral improvement of...

I knew of Rousseau's Émile for a long time before I ever actually sat down to read it. I knew of its influence; its huge and enduri...

Let's start with then: Average life expectancy at birth for English people in the late 16th and early 17th centuries was just under ...

'[Victorian] children's literature becomes extremely moralistic, associating violent punishment with even minor misbehaviour: obey y...