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Comment on Who Didn’t It: Guilt and Innocence in Golden Age Detective Fiction by quiteirregular

quiteirregular — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:14:38 +0000

Great point – thanks for bringing it up. I’ll have to nuance my reading of it in the light of that. Looking back to 2007, I rather regret using Gaudy Night as an example so often, as it’s usually the fascinating exception to so many tendencies in fiction of the time…!

Comment on Who Didn’t It: Guilt and Innocence in Golden Age Detective Fiction by Jo

Jo — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:39:45 +0000

Apparent exceptions, such as the title character in The Companion or Annie the college maid in Gaudy Night, turn out to be the middle classes in disguise: the companion was a distant relative of the woman she murdered, and Annie was the wife of an academic who committed suicide after being disgraced.

Annie’s only precariously middle-class, though – if I remember correctly, she was her husband’s landlady’s daughter, and he definitely married down.

Comment on Medieval Crimes: Detective Fiction and History by Marilyn Scott-Waters

Marilyn Scott-Waters — Tue, 21 May 2013 03:41:53 +0000

Lovely, thoughtful piece. Thank you.

Comment on Eerie Country House Ambience: The Turn of the Screw, at Glyndebourne, live streamed via The Guardian by sopranissima

sopranissima — Sat, 18 May 2013 06:42:47 +0000

Glyndebourne opera = gorgeous opera. Haven’t been lucky enough to be there in person, but I’ve watched some productions online

Comment on Family Values: Puritans and Postmodernism in 90s Slasher Movies by quiteirregular

quiteirregular — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:16:43 +0000

Thanks Sarah – I’m so glad you think so. Good luck with the Patheos move, by the way – I’m very much looking forward to the “You Are not Your Own” series!

Comment on Danse Macabre: Matthew Bourne’s Gothic Sleeping Beauty by thoughtsontheatre

thoughtsontheatre — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:56:40 +0000

Great insight into the work. Haven’t seen this one of Bourne’s yet but his other works never fail to entrance.

Comment on Lost in Loamshire, or, You Can’t Quote The Last Post by Tittering To The Converted: The Reluctant Debutante | quiteirregular

Tittering To The Converted: The Reluctant Debutante | quiteirregular — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:13:12 +0000

[…] last year’s successful revival of Lloyd George Knew My Father, the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre are now staging another William Douglas Home revival: The Reluctant […]

Comment on Family Values: Puritans and Postmodernism in 90s Slasher Movies by Sarah Moon

Sarah Moon — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:40:30 +0000

This is so interesting.

Comment on Books of Hours: Time and Plot in Golden Age Detective Novels by wordzly

wordzly — Mon, 06 May 2013 07:31:50 +0000

Wow, this is really interesting! I think murder mystery novels are a lot more complex than ‘literary purists’ give them credit for. It’s almost as if there are two stories going at once, you have the actual novel with the events in chronological order and then you have the hidden crime underneath.

Comment on Malvolio and Georgie: Twelfth Night Meets Mapp and Lucia by Merry Widows and Gay Divorcees: Gender & Power | Caitiewrites

Merry Widows and Gay Divorcees: Gender & Power | Caitiewrites — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:52:59 +0000

[...] by Caitiewrites Leave a comment After reading my friend & colleague Jem Bloomfield’s post on Twelfth Night and “Mapp and Lucia”, which focused on the discomforts caused by sexual tension (or imagined sexual tension) between [...]