Interview date: 13 January 2010
What book do you wish you had written?
Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (1936)
What would you do if you were not a literary critic?
Worry less about my future! Seriously though, I love doing what I do now, but if I couldn’t be a literary critic anymore, for whatever reason, I’d probably be a journalist or secondary school teacher.
When was the last time you looked at Wikipedia?
Last month, to settle a bet.
What event had the greatest impact on history in Ireland?
If I had to choose one, I’d say Anglo-Irish Union (1801), but that’s obviously influenced by my research area!
What are you reading now?
I’ve just started Burney’s Evelina (1778) – a book I’ve meant to read for ages but am only getting around to now.
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18 January 2010 at 11:19 |
GONE WITH THE WIND is an interesting choice considering how much controversy is attached to it. Would Christina care to elaborate on it?
18 January 2010 at 20:53 |
Hmmm… I hadn’t intended to court controversy. I read the novel as a teenager in a high school English class and fell in love with the characters. I was also enthralled by the fact that Mitchell wrote the novel in such a short period of time while recovering from a broken ankle – if only illness could make me so productive! Historical inaccuracies aside, Gone with the Wind is still a favourite!
19 January 2010 at 17:33 |
Fair enough. Your post on CONFESSIONS OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER, which is one of my favourites, was very interesting.
20 January 2010 at 09:58 |
Actually, that was Lisa’s post, but I agree that it was very well done! _Confessions_ is also a favourite of mine – I love the thought of doppelgangers though I suspect I’d be rather afraid were I to meet my own!
25 January 2010 at 10:25 |
Gone with the Wind is a great book. I read it after a visit to Atlanta for the AHA a few years ago. What with the wonderful southern drawl of our Margaret Mitchell tour guide to accompany it my reading, I felt I was back in the war torn south!
4 March 2010 at 06:52 |
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