“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Ah, Toby

Nice chat just now with my outstanding Ph.D. student Toby Bates, of UC Davis. He's doing all kinds of things with time in Victorian literature and culture. He's one of the most philosophically dialed of my students but he also knows how to read a poem (and a story) and he knows his history too.

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