he has moved the action from victorian england to 1930s japanese—occupied korea. the story is generally the same. a young girl from a criminal background goes to work for the lady of the manor but she is actually there to swindle her out of herfortune. unlike the book, it really relishes the power of storytelling, in other words, it is the twists and the turns, it is the horror, the comedy, the romance, it throws everything into the mix and does it in a really luxurious and lush way. i want to call it a romp but that sounds throwaway and it is not. it is a costume drama? a costume drama but heartfelt. although it is fun to watch because there is so much going on, it is intelligent and heartfelt and tender. ultimately, it is a romance. it is a beautiful, tender love story. absolutely beautiful to watch, highly recommended. and a major twist? at least one? at least one. i had read the book so i knew the twists. the end of the handmaiden, the movie was different to fingersmith. even though i knew the twists, it was still a joy to watch. let's move on to the sense of

he has moved the action from victorian england to 19305 japanese—occupied korea.the same. a young girl from a criminal background goes to work for the lady of the manor but she is actually there to swindle her out of her fortune. unlike the book, it really relishes the power of storytelling, in other words, it is the twists and the turns, it is the horror, the comedy, the romance, it throws everything into the mix and does it in a really luxurious and lush way. i want to call it a romp but that sounds throwaway and it is not. it is a costume drama? a costume drama but heartfelt. although it is fun to watch because there is so much going on, it is intelligent and heartfelt and tender. ultimately, it is a romance. it is a beautiful, tender love story. absolutely beautiful to watch, highly recommended. and a major twist? at least one? at least one. i had read the book so i knew the twists. the end of the handmaiden, the movie was different to fingersmith. even though i knew the twists, it was still a joy to watch. let's move on to the sense of an ending. another lite

he has moved the action from victorian england to 1930s japanese—occupied korea.tune. unlike the book, it really relishes the power of storytelling, in other words, it is the twists and the turns, it is the horror, the comedy, the romance, it throws everything into the mix and does it in a really luxurious and lush way. i want to call it a romp but that sounds throwaway and it is not. it is a costume drama? a costume drama but heartfelt. although it is so much fun to watch because there is so much going on, it is intelligent and heartfelt and tender. ultimately, it is a romance. it is a beautiful, tender love story. absolutely beautiful to watch, highly recommended. and a major twist? at least one? at least one. i had read the book so i knew the twists. the end of the handmaiden, the movie is slightly different to fingersmith. even though i knew the twists, it was still a joy to watch. let's move on to the sense of an ending. another literary adaptation. julian barnes wrote the book, which won the booker prize. in 2011. now we have the movie with jim broadbent. he

he has moved the action from victorian england to 1930s japanese—occupied korea.goes to work for the lady of the manor but she is actually there to swindle her out of her fortune. unlike the book, it really relishes the power of storytelling, in other words, it is the twists and the turns, it is the horror, the comedy, the romance, it throws everything into the mix and does it in a really luxurious and lush way. i want to call it a romp but that sounds throwaway and it is not. it is a costume drama? a costume drama but heartfelt. although it is fun to watch because there is so much going on, it is intelligent and heartfelt and tender. ultimately, it is a romance. it is a beautiful, tender love story. absolutely beautiful to watch, highly recommended. and a major twist? at least one? at least one. i had read the book so i knew the twists. the end of the handmaiden, the movie was different to fingersmith. even though i knew the twists, it was still a joy to watch. let's move on to the sense of an ending. another literary adaptation. julian barnes wrote the book whic

particularly when someone talks about victorian culture in europe, if someone says victorian culture, they are likely referring to england, not necessarily america. here in america is sometimes people take the view of victorian culture from the 1830's to about 1900 or so, but you can put that into in early and late. because this is post civil war, we will state focus on the victorian culture in america that takes place after the civil war, after 1865, and we will run it up through the first years of the 20th century, to the 10 and even a little bit the teens. when we talk about victorian , particularlyrica after the civil war, we are looking at a society that has undergone a lot of changes because of that war and other things that are going on, some of which the of talked about, and the changes, this russians -- disruptions shape and influence american society. we have to think about the war itself and all of the carnage and brutality that comes out of it, the great loss of life, the way in whichnd the the north in particular handles it. we talked about this early in the semester. freerve the union, maybe some slaves. by

england. do you remember maggie smith's character, who's really born in the -- she's a victorian woman. she's appalled that her grandson-in-law wants to continue practicing law when he's going to -- supposed to run the estate. and that was a violation, in her mind, of what an aristocrat ought to do. you should not be a lawyer. she didn't understand the whole notion of working at all. she said at one point, what's a weekend? she didn't understand that there were distinctions. this -- you know, benjamin franklin in the constitutional convention made several proposals, one of which was that all members of the executive branch from the president on down should serve without pay. now, it got tabld, it was just impractical for americans, but it was -- he was echoing this kind of old-fashioned notion of what an aristocrat ought to do. you know, members of the parliament got no salary until 1911. that was the first time they were paid. so this was the responsibility of aristocrats, and you get some semblance of this. now, others disagreed with this. john adams, for example, wrote several long p