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France’s Merrie Tales: Olivier’s Brag

By Oliver Raven on April 19, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Coming soon: Anatole France’s The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche

By Michael Guest on April 17, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

Gunter’s Baron Montez: 6. Jesse’s Letter

By Brian Armour on April 10, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Gunter’s Baron Montez: 5. Black Blood Changes to Blue

By Brian Armour on March 27, 2021 • ( 1 Comment )

Gunter’s Baron Montez: 4. What The Moon Saw In Panama

By Brian Armour on March 13, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Gunter Biosnip: Trade in Desires

By Michael Guest on March 7, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Twenty-seventh Instalment

By Michael Guest on March 2, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Willie will need to prove his mettle. He is well in the running to become Cambridge University’s Senior Wrangler for the year: referring to the highest scoring third year first-class honours student in the Mathematical Tripos. An amazing feat for a farm lad, but Willie is worn out […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Twenty-sixth Instalment

By Michael Guest on February 16, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

This evening the girls are off to the opera, as Lady Montague announced the other day (Chapter 25). Sir George Meredith won’t be dragged — says he feels sleepy. Men. The sparkle and glitter of a brilliant Friday evening play upon the rippling Thames, as the London bon […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Twenty-fifth Instalment

By Michael Guest on February 1, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Smith places the novel in the Regency era, forty to fifty years earlier than when he wrote it. In this chapter the narrator mentions that the prince regent (1762-1830) was sixty years old when he had the imitation Chinese pagoda built in St. James Park. It was built […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Twenty-fourth Instalment

By Michael Guest on January 20, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Viscount Allworth is in a lather over the prospect of being uncovered for forging his son Lord Bury’s signature. Fuelling his gambling and extravagant lifestyle, cash moneys obtained from the ‘Chellston affair’ (see Chapters 4, 10, 11 and 17) only served to blow his debts out into further […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Twenty-third Instalment

By Michael Guest on January 7, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

Some pointed remarks in this and recent chapters invite a cursory digression into the world of heraldry. Whether an art or a science as are variously asserted, it is an intriguing and complicated field with roots in the ancient past as well as tendrils — if in some […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Twenty-second Instalment

By Michael Guest on December 22, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

We find a slight mix-up in the text this week, but one that involves a significant issue of plot and theme. It is where the young Lord Bury appears about to take Lady Montague’s side against William, in her confrontation with the two girls. Lady Kate draws up […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Twenty-first Instalment

By Michael Guest on December 7, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

There is an idiosyncratic slide, moving from the omniscient narrator’s opening reflection on the parable of the “wise and foolish builders,” to Theophilus (Theo) Blackmore’s own seemingly spontaneous reflection on “Sand! sand!” in his meeting with Viscountess Allworth. It is almost as though the narrator informs as much as […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Twentieth Instalment

By Michael Guest on November 23, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Sometimes the anomalies in a text can provide a starting point to explore possibilities of meaning that aren’t immediately evident. The first such a one in this chapter is striking: Smith’s misquotation from Romeo and Juliet, which ought to read: These violent delights have violent ends, And in […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Nineteenth Instalment

By Michael Guest on November 9, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Philosophical Victorian John Stuart Mill considered his era an “age of transition.” Certain critical transitions, such as those we touched upon in the previous instalment, were visited by the industrial revolution. British cultural anthropologist Victor Turner’s (1920-33) idea of liminality is worthy of a mention in the context. […]

J.F. Smith’s Mystery of the Marsh — Eighteenth Instalment

By Michael Guest on October 26, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

In the previous chapter, Clara expresses her relief when William turns out to be a gentleman, as is borne out by the credentials printed on his card and his reputation as a scholar, which has become a matter of public knowledge. Lady Kate hadn’t doubted it, perhaps thanks […]

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