Rachel Vorona Cote Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Rachel Vorona Cote is a writer and book critic. đź–‹: @thenation, @laphamsquart, @PoetryFound, @bookforum & elsewhere | author of TOO MUCH | I teach writing too | rachelvorona @ gmail | she/her
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
George EliotRachel Vorona Cote10 years ago, no-fault divorce was quite useful to me! And now, formula affords me a few hours of respite from nursing. But that’s the point: these “silly novelties” are gendered. I actually wonder if the author is riffing on George Eliot’s essay, “Silly Novel By Lady Novelists.” https://t.co/kzJcvRMZvN
Hardcover, 2010
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Passing: The revolutionary novel which inspired Rebecca Hall's powerful film adaptation
Nella LarsenRachel Vorona Cote@V21collective Jude the Obscure (and I’d make an argument for Tess, too), Villette, The Little Prince, Ferrante’s The Days of Abandonment (and also Troubling Love), Catcher in the Rye, Nella Larsen’s Passing. Ishiguro seems like an author for this syllabus too, maybe?
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The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection
Oscar WildeRachel Vorona CoteIts language—sly, limber, epigrammatic—models the same rebellious individualism that it so fiercely advocates…Together, they illuminate a swaggering intellectual career that spans not just the novel, the play, and the poem but also, to a prodigious degree, the periodical.
Hardcover, 2022
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Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni MorrisonRachel Vorona CoteHere’s to Carrie Gantt, teacher extraordinaire, whose IB English 11 syllabus included Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits. That class demanded something new and crucial from me at just the right time.
Paperback, 2004
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Middlemarch
George EliotRachel Vorona Cote@bananafitz Oh boy. Many faves, but Wilkie Collins’ The Women in White, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, George Eliot’s Middlemarch and also The Mill On the Floss, Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend, Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South!!
Hardcover, 2011
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The House of the Spirits
Isabel AllendeRachel Vorona CoteHere’s to Carrie Gantt, teacher extraordinaire, whose IB English 11 syllabus included Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits. That class demanded something new and crucial from me at just the right time.
Paperback, 2015
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The Soul of Man
Oscar WildeRachel Vorona CoteOn a related note: Essay revisions have sent me back to Oscar Wilde’s essay “The Soul of Man Under Socialism.” In some ways it’s a peculiar piece of writing, and he seems to not *quite* understand the docility oft-yielded by systemic oppression, but mostly it is absolute fire: https://t.co/8gb5JvhqVA
Hardcover, 2022
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Vanity Fair
W. M. ThackerayRachel Vorona Cote@lynnsstrong Seconding/Thirding Susan Taubes’ Divorcing, Ferrante’s Days of Abandonment, Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and there’s an argument for Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, I think. Klara and the Sun also features a divorced couple.
Hardcover, 2020
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Virginia Woolf
Hermione LeeRachel Vorona CoteCameo appearances by a variety of ~eminent~ persons: Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee, Janet Malcolm, Oscar Wilde, and a nod to excellent contemporary biographer @AlexisCoe. I loved writing this essay.
Paperback, 1999
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Breasts and Eggs
Mieko KawakamiRachel Vorona CoteA graceful, subtle, yet certain annihilation of A Certain Type of Male Writer, from Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs: https://t.co/KPKhpQ2oEE
Paperback, 2021
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