Moral prudishness pushed Thomas Hardy and George Eliot to develop more creative and thoughtful writing practices. Introduction...
Literature
Fans have always created new stories based on familiar characters, weaving their own experiences into the tale....
Republics need to “stop turning our libraries into political battlefields.” The Alabama Library Association and other critics...
Examining evidence wherein manuscripts self-document their own utility. Introduction Liturgical manuscripts—such as Gospels and missals—both betokened and...
They’ve faced criminalization and harassment and in some cases have been fired. Americans last year challenged more book...
Milton saw how the reading public might digest books — good and bad alike — into nourishing...
Following several precious scientific books through the Middle Ages. By Katie HafnerHealth Journalist While covering technology for The...
Books have the power to transport us to different worlds, broaden our horizons, and deepen our understanding...
The work is considered a fundamental source for the earliest history of the East Slavs. Introduction The Russian...
We are experiencing a continuation of evolution. It is occurring at the fastest pace it has ever...
Writing developed independently in three different regions of the world: the Middle East, China, and Mesoamerica. A...
Books were so much more than material items accommodating devotion, liturgy, knowledge, and entertainment. Introduction I have...
Russian literature shaped the development of Korean culture after being translated into Japanese. The basic give and...
As she made plans to kill herself, Cleopatra appropriated the language of the ‘noble Roman’. Introduction In...
Whitman secured and maintained employment as a low-level government clerk, helping his hospital efforts. Introduction Walt Whitman’s...
The story of the divine love of Radha and Krishna and the lessons in it for our...
The spatial sign in the middle ages is the product of the mythology of static, determinate structure....
Examining anti-immigrant rhetoric, legislation, violence, and hostility at the time. London has always been a city of...
The Prince is definitely one of the most notorious books of all time; however, the bulk of...
Although few of his works have survived, he is referenced extensively by later writers. Introduction Callimachus of Cyrene (l....
The story of Ciappelletto, who spins his final confession into a rhetorical masterpiece narrating his own superlative...
Du Bois traveled to national parks, and he understood that most other Black people were unable to...
They made acquisitions such a priority around that scholars began hiding their private libraries to prevent their...
Examining radically altered intellectual landscape primarily through two manuscripts. Introduction Nestled in a mountain valley on the...
The Bardi bank had been one of the major players in the fourteenth century. By M.T.W. Payne...
Many had often read and frequently referred to well-known theories. Though religious works were almost surely throughout...
The relationship between Patroclus and Achilles is the strongest one in the ‘Iliad’. Introduction Patroclus is a figure...
The rhetorical art of persuading listeners to change their minds became a dramatic art. In November 1597...
She caused a furor when she coined “the banality of evil” to describe mindless acts of Nazi...
No American writer is more associated with writing about war in the early 20th century than Ernest...