As Mr. Ramsay and the now-teenage children reach the lighthouse and achieve a moment of reconciliation, Lily completes her painting. To the Lighthouse melds into its structure questions about creativity and the nature and function of art. Lily argues effectively for nonrepresentational but emotive...
human evolution, the process by whichhuman beingsdeveloped onEarthfrom now-extinctprimates. Viewed zoologically, we humans areHomo sapiens, aculture-bearing upright-walkingspeciesthat lives on the ground and very likely first evolved inAfricaabout 315,000 years ago. We are now the only living memb...
“the Negro” apart from the whitestereotypesthat had influenced Black peoples’ relationship to their heritage and to each other. They also sought to break free ofVictorianmoralvalues and bourgeois shame about aspects of their lives that might, as seen by white people, reinforce racist beliefs. ...
Dorian Gray is a fictional character and the hedonistic protagonist of Irish writer Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). The book is an archetypal tale of a beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, who exchanges his soul for youth that never
(1990) explores the lives of nine historical characters, such asJohn Wilkes Booth, who either assassinated U.S. presidents or attempted to do so. Later Sondheim works includeBounce(2003; retitledRoad Showin 2008), about the colourful adventures of a pair of early 20th-century American...
Among the structures slated for demolition was the city’s venerable Victorian-era Anglican cathedral. Up to 50,000 residents moved permanently to other locations in New Zealand or to Australia. Geologic instability in the region continued for months, and aftershocks—including one estimated at ...
children. His elder brother, Willie, became a journalist, and his younger sister, Isola, died of afeverwhen she was 10. As a child, Wilde wasbaptizedaRoman Catholicat his mother’sbehest, despite his family’s affiliation with theAnglican church; presumably, this act signified his mother’s...
During the period from the 1960s through the ’90s, musicals were written about a wide range of themes:Jewishhistory (Fiddler on the Roof[1964]),homosexuality(La Cage aux Folles[1983]), theAIDSepidemic(Rent),gender identity(Hedwig and the Angry Inch[1998]), the lives of working-class teen...
Today “Victorian” connotes a prudish refusal to admit theexistence of sex, hypocritically combined with constant discussions of sex, thinly veiled as a series of warnings. There is some truth to both sides of thisstereotype. Some few educated Victorians did write a lot about sex, includingp...
Today “Victorian” connotes a prudish refusal to admit theexistence of sex, hypocritically combined with constant discussions of sex, thinly veiled as a series of warnings. There is some truth to both sides of thisstereotype. Some few educated Victorians did write a lot about sex, includingp...