The Wobbly Chronology of Disenchantment
Haley Stewart on the dated idea of progress and the novel Piranesi.
Haley Stewart
Haley Stewart is a writer, speaker, and podcaster living in central Texas with her beekeeping husband and four children. She earned her BA at Baylor University and is the author of The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture. You can find her at her blog Carrots for Michaelmas and as co-host of the podcast Fountains of Carrots.
Articles
Memento Mori: Facing Death as a Fount of Life
Haley Stewart explores the strange logic of memento mori
Jane Austen's Daily Mirrors of Marriage
Haley Stewart, writer, speaker, and podcaster looks into the mirror of Austen's novels for a realistic picture of Holy Matrimony.
A Knight in St. Patrick’s Purgatory
Haley Stewart, writer, speaker, and podcaster stuffs penance and suffering back into St. Patrick's Day.
The Wayward Daughters
Haley Stewart, writer, speaker, and podcaster wrestles with the weight of sin borne by female characters in the fiction of Sigrid Undset and Evelyn Waugh.
The Sham Practice of Christmas
Haley Stewart, writer, speaker, and podcaster looks to Josef Pieper and Charles Dickens to critique the hyper-commercialization of the Christmas season.
Alasdair MacIntyre Reads Jane Austen Reading Her Late Modern Reader
Haley Stewart, writer, speaker, and podcaster puts forward the argument that you cannot understand Austen outside of embodying a virtuous life.