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Simplified: Reginald Watson has studied questions of Blackness in the works of the Brontës including Emily’s sister Charlotte the “Jane Eyre” author.1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: At one point Heathcliff compares himself with Edgar Linton saying “I wish I had light hair and fair skin”.1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: As a boy Heathcliff is brought into the home of Catherine Earnshaw by her father Mr Earnshaw.1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: Susan Newby said “There is a sense that he is not white Anglo-Saxon he’s something else but you don’t know what that is”.1 sources3 months ago
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Some scholars believe that Brontë was using Heathcliff to comment on the Liverpool slave trade. 0.800Simplified: Some scholars believe Brontë was using Heathcliff to comment on the Liverpool slave trade.1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: In addition to being called “dark” and a “gipsy” he is also referred to as a “Lascar” a term for South Asian laborers on British ships.1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: The servant Nelly Dean suggests Heathcliff could be a “prince in disguise” continuing “Who knows but your father was emperor of China and your mother...1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: In Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” Heathcliff is described as a “dark-skinned gipsy”.1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: Diamond wrote In Search Of The Primitive: A Critique Of Civilization1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: Impressionism would not exist without Paris salons in the late 1800s modernist literature would not exist without Bloomsbury Group gatherings in the e...1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: Last century was full of metaphysical sleuthery from G.K. Chesterton to Eugene Ionesco to Geoff Dyer1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: William L Shirer wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in 19601 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: Knowledge of Murdoch's life helps1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: Murdoch said poets can express much more than novelists1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: He is headed toward an obscure hotel where he is waited for1 sources3 months ago
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The best are strong enough that it’s as if she carved them, with a knife, onto a library desk. 0.900Simplified: The best are strong enough as if she carved them with a knife onto a library desk1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: Poems From an Attic does not greatly extend understanding of Murdoch1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: He considers how his wife would have reacted1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: The editors note the poem describes a concert Murdoch attended with Philippa and Michael Foote and refers to a "quadrilateral tale" of partner-swappin...1 sources3 months ago
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Simplified: She is remarried with children1 sources3 months ago