Rohan Maitzen
Department of English
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Category Archives: Balzac, Honore de
“A bourgeois tragedy”: Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet
Using the hashtag #IHaveNeverRead, Penguin UK recently urged people on Twitter to “confess” their “shocking literary shortcomings” — an exercise in weirdly inverted snobbery that inevitably recalls David Lodge’s game ‘Humiliation‘. I’m actually less and less humiliated by the vast array … Continue reading
