Mod post: theme suggestions

[damned_colonial]

Please suggest themes you'd like to see covered here! Cut and paste the following into a comment:

ETA: please put your theme in the subject of your comment!

Theme:
Are you prepared to run it? Yes/No
Suggested books, if you have them already:


What does it mean to run the theme?

1. At least one month in advance, you'll let everyone know about the theme and your suggested reading for it. You need to suggest at least 3 works of fiction.
2. On the first of the month, you will post a welcome/introduction/kickoff for the theme.
3. Throughout the month, you'll take an active part in discussion of the theme.

You do not have to be an expert on the theme to run it. You just need to have an interest in it.

Comments

Re: Judaism and Antisemitism in the UK (after 1800)

[naraht]

Definitely. But is the Jewish experience actually an important theme in any of them, or is it just casual prejudice as a background element?

Re: Judaism and Antisemitism in the UK (after 1800)

[al_zorra]

That's a good question. I'm pretty sure not, unlike Daniel Deroonda, for instance, which Eliot wrote in hopes of doing for the Jews in England what Stowe had done for slaves in the U.S.