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Why would a psychiatric institution publish a periodical in the nineteenth century? This is the question I asked myself ten years ago, when I read the following sentence on the website of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital: ‘A printing press was installed, and a magazine, the Morningside Mirror, was produced.’ I soon found out that the […]
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Tankers and pipelines spill their toxic contents into oceans and wetlands, the AI industry guzzles massive amounts of water, and imperialist warmongers decimate animals, species, and biosystems across our planet. And yet, through it all, my community’s Facebook group has remained focused, instead, on excoriating a thoughtless litterbug and a band of noisy ATVers who […]
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As my book neared completion, I thought, ‘how great would it be to organize a book launch, something small?” I’m the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, featuring 14 contributors from five different countries. I imagined a roundtable discussion, a few hours max, at one of our universities. Easy, quick, small. ‘Probably won’t […]
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Have the courage of your convictions. Be a person of conviction. Carry conviction. Stand tall in your conviction. As these idioms attest, we have a strong cultural conviction that conviction is a virtue and that anything less betrays weakness—or as W. B. Yeats put it more dramatically, that civilization itself is at stake when “[t]he […]
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The cover of The Anthropocene and Literature features a photo from an abandoned house in the ghost town of Kolmanskop in Namibia. The former mining town was established in the early twentieth century when Namibia was still a German colony, and it was abandoned only fifty years later, when the diamond mines were depleted. With […]
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For many years I tried, without success, to crack the code of a literary critical puzzle concerning D. H. Lawrence. The tradition of post-World War II Lawrence criticism, remarkable though it was in remaking successive Lawrences sensitive to the discourses of the day (existentialism, feminism, postcolonialism, eco-criticism), hadn’t got me there. But then, amidst the […]
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In 1915, Robert Chenault Givler published the results of his PhD thesis, which he had undertaken at the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The work was entitled ‘The Psycho-physiological Effect of the Elements of Speech in Relation to Poetry’ and consisted of Givler strapping a series of readers to an early blood-pressure device in the hopes of […]
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A trip to the theatre, these days, often involves additional purchase. Theatre merchandise (‘merch’) is sold in a related shop or kiosk, so that attending a performance might involve also buying a t-shirt, a mug, a toy, a CD. Some canny productions also ‘product place’ the merch in the production itself, meaning that material goods […]
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