She was a great observer of everyday life. Virginia Woolf, that great lover of language, would surely...
Literature
Walt Whitman’s influence on the creative output of 20th-century Russia — particularly in the years surrounding the...
All kinds of fantasies could be found in this land at the edge of earth. Introduction Herodotus (484...
In 1758, Samuel Johnson noted that the “itch of scribbling” had seized the nation. Introduction In 1758,...
Part essay collection, part shadow-play, part macabre ballet, Satan the Waster: A Philosophic War Trilogy (1920) is...
The mantle of patriarchal Englishness would have seemed distinctly odd to Chaucer himself. By Dr. Marion TurnerAssociate...
Political and moral views are framed in terms of a fight between patriot and traitor, law and...
In 1884 Edwin Abbott Abbott published Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever book that...
“The loneliest person who ever lived,” she once called herself. As Brazil attempts to train all eyes...
Examining the cultural heritage of Early Modern Europe and its influence in contemporary thought. By Angel Solis,...
Vampire fiction as class allegory predates Dracula. In May 1897 Constable and Co published a limited print...
The ups and downs of a big-time writer. In a life that spanned nearly six decades, Truman...
Translators of the Bible have rarely understood the need or made the effort to convey the literary...
In short, the new fragment reveals a vision of humanity as a process of maturation that unfolds...
There is a time to embrace the joy of doing less. In The Art of the Wasted Day,...
Henry David Thoreau went in for society, but on his own terms. A century and a half...
The year 2011 marked the 100th anniversary of the children’s classic The Secret Garden. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina,...
In 1741 the Norwegian-Danish author Ludvig Holberg published Klimii Iter Subterraneum, a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel detailing the...
In 1876 Lewis Carroll published by far his longest poem – a fantastical epic tale recounting the...
How contemporary southeastern Native writers work to repossess homelands that they rearticulate not as “the South” but...
Hal Lindsey and C. C. Carlson’s The Late Great Planet Earth introduced millions of readers worldwide to end-times prophecy....
Books had the practical aim of helping children to learn to read, count, and understand the world...
Through its representation of physical and psychological effects, Séjour’s story inaugurated the literary delineation of slavery’s submission-rebellion...
In the footsteps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Philipp Moritz — from the peace of Lake Biel...
Reality had always been viewed as a single unfolding history. Stapp postulated another physical, not spiritual, world. I knew Orrill Stapp before I...
Waterhouse’s images of Circe, sirens and sorceresses raise a number of questions. By Michelle Bonollo Mr Waterhouse...
The only possible response can be that it is no one’s and everyone’s. The death of Martin...
Without distractions, he produced some of his best writing there in exile. By Ted Lawrence, J.D. Some writers are...
Jame’s Laughlin’s life amalgamated many seemingly dissonant strains in twentieth-century America into a coherent whole. The American...
Fictional characters, unlike laudanum-addicted impostors, never really die. A handsome youth with shoulder-length golden hair sits in...