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Shuffling past the French Department noticeboard one day in my undergraduate first year, a small ad caught my eye. A week in Paris. All expenses paid. Was I dreaming? The small print, however, confirmed that there’s no such thing as a free déjeuner. I’d have to see a play every night and discuss it the […]
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When the editors of The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature first contacted me with a request to serve on the volume’s advisory council, they promised that their demands on my time would be “neither too frequent nor too arduous.” They were true to their word, and as a result I can claim little credit […]
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When, in his 1716 poem Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London, John Gay announced he would instruct his readers on “How to walk clean by Day, and safe by Night”, he firmly positioned his account between two different modes of representing the city. Like Ned Ward’s The London Spy, Gay’s poem […]
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Feminist philosopher and activist María Lugones described dancing the tango as an act of mutual intention – “I ask, intimate, propose; you respond.” I find that her co-constructed tango practice better encapsulates my own theatrical translation experience, as a US-based actor, director, spectator, and –yes—translator, than translator Katherine Gregor’s asymmetrical ballroom-dance analogy which positions the […]
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We are pleased and excited about our just-published coedited book, The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies. In our introduction (available in full on the Cambridge University Press book page), we discuss the exigence and shape of our book. Here’s a few excerpts from that introduction, which we hope will entice you to read the introduction […]
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The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature brings together more than 50 scholars to provide a literary history of the queerness of American literature from its earliest beginnings to 2023. It takes as its remit the intense proximity, entwinement, and even identity between queerness and American literature. When the American literary scholar Eric Savoy asked […]
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In 1885, John Ruskin resigned as Slade Professor of Art to protest the establishment a laboratory for experimental physiology at Oxford University. ‘I cannot lecture in the next room to a shrieking cat’, he announced, ‘nor address myself to the men who have been – there is no word for it.’ The word that Ruskin […]
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The English author John Milton, who never set foot in Ireland, has long been a consequential presence there nonetheless. Since 1890, for example, visitors to the National Library of Ireland in Dublin have entered through a semicircular lobby in which a beatific face of John Milton shone down on them as they arrived. In order […]
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Shuffling past the French Department noticeboard one day in my undergraduate first year, a small ad caught my eye. A week in Paris. All expenses paid. Was I dreaming? The small print, however, confirmed that there’s no such thing as a free déjeuner. I’d have to see a play every night and discuss it the […]
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When the editors of The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature first contacted me with a request to serve on the volume’s advisory council, they promised that their demands on my time would be “neither too frequent nor too arduous.” They were true to their word, and as a result I can claim little credit […]
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When, in his 1716 poem Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London, John Gay announced he would instruct his readers on “How to walk clean by Day, and safe by Night”, he firmly positioned his account between two different modes of representing the city. Like Ned Ward’s The London Spy, Gay’s poem […]
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Feminist philosopher and activist María Lugones described dancing the tango as an act of mutual intention – “I ask, intimate, propose; you respond.” I find that her co-constructed tango practice better encapsulates my own theatrical translation experience, as a US-based actor, director, spectator, and –yes—translator, than translator Katherine Gregor’s asymmetrical ballroom-dance analogy which positions the […]
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We are pleased and excited about our just-published coedited book, The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies. In our introduction (available in full on the Cambridge University Press book page), we discuss the exigence and shape of our book. Here’s a few excerpts from that introduction, which we hope will entice you to read the introduction […]
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The Cambridge History of Queer American Literature brings together more than 50 scholars to provide a literary history of the queerness of American literature from its earliest beginnings to 2023. It takes as its remit the intense proximity, entwinement, and even identity between queerness and American literature. When the American literary scholar Eric Savoy asked […]
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In 1885, John Ruskin resigned as Slade Professor of Art to protest the establishment a laboratory for experimental physiology at Oxford University. ‘I cannot lecture in the next room to a shrieking cat’, he announced, ‘nor address myself to the men who have been – there is no word for it.’ The word that Ruskin […]
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The English author John Milton, who never set foot in Ireland, has long been a consequential presence there nonetheless. Since 1890, for example, visitors to the National Library of Ireland in Dublin have entered through a semicircular lobby in which a beatific face of John Milton shone down on them as they arrived. In order […]
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