For centuries, readers have written in the margins of their books to indicate admiration, disagreement or inspiration. Plath was...
Literature
At first glance, a category like ancient science fiction might seem paradoxical. By Mike Bezemek / 08.30.2017 At first...
It is easy to forget: criticism is, first and foremost, writing. By Dr. Christopher Warley Professor of...
From a medieval manuscript / British Library, Public Domain The heroic character of Beowulf, the nature of leadership...
Baloch Raaj, The Death of Doda Pakistani folklore is shaped both by the languages and traditions of the...
The contributions and influence of South Asian artists, poets, intellectuals and sportspeople within British arts, sciences, law, and...
King Lear and Cordelia, by Benjamin West (1793) / Folger Shakespeare Library, Wikimedia Commons Considering how the Fool...
Taming of the Shrew, 1809, by Washington Allston / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Public Domain In Shakespeare’s...
Profile of William Shakespeare, c.1793 / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile:...
Portrait of Margaret Cavendish in the frontispiece to her Grounds of Natural Philosophy (1668). The image is also used...
Bronze statue of Geoffrey Chaucer The world about which Chaucer wrote was a very different world from...
British Library, Public Domain Examining how drug literature—writing on drugs by drug users—has consistently resorted to Gothic conventions,...
Creative Commons “Some ethical vision of the world, an ethical concept of what human life and human...
Júlia Lopes de Almeida was a founding member in the creation of the Brazilian Academy of Letters...
Linguistic dating is in close agreement with historians’ and classicists’ beliefs derived from historical and archaeological sources. ...
Mandeville’s Travels was, for more than two centuries after its appearance in c.1356, of enormous influence and...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr Ralph David Abernathy, their families, and others leading the Selma to Montgomery...
The second nun from Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The Second Nun, her prologue,...
The Man of Law’s Tale might seem an unlikely specimen for examining the development of race in...
Simon Armitage explores Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and reflects on how he approached his own...
Puzzling out the meaning of monsters in Beowulf, comparing the hero with Grendel, Grendel’s mother and the...
By Liz Matthews / 06.20.2018 Art Historian, Artist Wednesday 23 June 1937 I went shopping, whitebait hunting...
Watercolour portrait by William Buckler of Robert Hunt, 1842 — Wellcome Library, Creative Commons In 1848, the mineralogist,...
Photo via AAIHS Examining the significant contributions of women and the dynamics of gender at the 1956 Congress...
Image by Michelle Gia, Flickr, Creative Commons The active properties of sharing – what it means to be...
By Dr. Tracy Sharpley-Whiting Gertrude Conaway Distinguished Vanderbilt Professor of Humanities (AADS and French) Vanderbilt University In...
Pitti Immagine Filati Thing theory does its best work by acknowledging the incapacity to attribute meaning to the...
Don DeLillo, New York City, 1990s How do the literary, visual, and plastic arts fashion questions about...
Creative Commons Photo The tenacity of the Commune’s second life does not simply attest to its continuing...
Ammonite fossil / Photo by Becks, Wikimedia Commons Nineteenth-century England saw a major revolution in the scientific...