Charlotte Mary Yonge may be "placed" in literary history as the leading novelist of that Anglo-Catholic revival known as Tractarianism, or the Oxford Movement; but this classification cannot explain why her domestic novels have always been enjoyed by man...
To say that Charlotte Mary Yonge's writings were designed to illustrate Tractarian principles at work in daily life is to convey a wholly misleading suggestion of dullness and dogmatism. In fact, Yonge's popularity in her own day (and among modern devote...
As one demonstrator said to the cameras in Hyde Park last weekend, "The only thing that makes sense of what America is doing with Iraq is oil." Maybe . . . but what about religion? That makes even more sense of what America is...
When Abraham Lincoln called Americans "the almost-chosen people," he used an apt phrase, as valid now as when he coined it a hundred and forty years ago. It perfectly expresses the close but at the same time slightly uneasy relationship between the American republic...
"Can you tell us what the fuck that movie was about?" asked a leggy blonde. She was at the afterparty for the premiere of Pretty Persuasion, a dark teen dramedy in the fine tradition of Heathers. "We walked in halfway through." Hmm, let's see. There's...
From Albert Bierstadt's 19th-century landscapes to Ansel Adams' famous photographs, the images of the Sierra's Yosemite Valley tell as much about the culture and history of the expansion of the American West as they do about the national park itself.The story unfolds in the inspirational...
