When a Department Self-Destructs
Jenna Schoenefeld for The Chronicle
“On a recent sunny afternoon in Southern California, Aaron Kunin’s class at Pomona College is tackling The Witlings by Frances Burney, an 18th-century comedy of manners that pokes fun at the literary world inhabited by its playwright. Six students make observations about the characters’ speech and motivations. One of them asks Kunin what the word “railing” means — in Act I, a character observes that another’s “whole happiness” comes from railing.“ - By Emma Pettit
