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“Berger shows us Hans Memling’s Vanity .”
“But, worse, my skin had broken out in a strange midlife puberty.”
“* Frivolity, meaning connected to the frivolous.”
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“Dorothea is serious, pious, and beautiful.”
“I had arrived at my mid-forties, and the mirror suddenly gave me a face crosshatched with creases.”
“The frivolous is a splendid excuse.”
“We’re all implicated in what Montaigne says.”
“She is the author of ten poetry collections; three books of nonfiction, including Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia, 2022); and a craft book, The Wounded Line: A Guide to Writing Poems of Trauma (2025).”
“It closes with what grammarians call a feminine ending, which seems to fizz like a pale splash of prosecco.”
“____________________________ Excerpted from Frivolity: A Defense by Jehanne Dubrow.”
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“art history Columbia University Press cultural criticism Frivolity: A Defense Jehanne Dubrow Jehanne Dubrow Jehanne Dubrow is a distinguished research professor and a professor of creative writing at the University of North Texas.”
“Early on in George Eliot’s great novel Middlemarch , Dorothea Brooke agrees to her younger sister’s request that they finally divide between them their dead mother’s jewelry.”
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“I tapped something called essence into the fat of my cheekbones.”
“She is judged for wanting what women want.”
“It was to make a woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, as sight.”
“Although her skirt simmers red, some kind of heavy satin, she isn’t presented as a figure of sexual pleasure.”
“But Eliot wants us to understand too how the young woman will suffer for her performances of virtue.”
“To be distracted by vanities (read: frivolities) is to forget that earthly pleasures have no lasting value.”