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For one of the first of the over 250 drawings that Rockwell Kent made to illustrate Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851) in 1930, he propped Ishmael up on his elbows, lying on his belly on a grassy hill. This is the famous opening scene of the novel, in which Melville’s narrator says: “Whenever I find […]
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Between the time of the Second World War and the present day there has been a steady stream of cultural interest in Nazism, World War II, the Holocaust, and the aftermath of these events. Novels like Schindler’s Ark (1982), The Reader (1995) and Caging Skies (2008), all adapted into highly successful films (Schindler’s List, The […]
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In February 1825, Mary Shelley approached a member of parliament with a modest proposal. “I have often wished to be present at a debate in the House of Commons,” the author of Frankenstein wrote to MP John Cam Hobhouse, adding that the “animated discussions now going on” and “splendid eloquence” on display in recent debates […]
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The impetus for us editing this volume came from two sources. One was the sense that Elizabeth Webby’s The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature (2001), a fine work for its era, needed updating, and that the Australian novel, as a genre, deserved its own Companion. This was especially true given not just new novelists, but […]
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A few years ago after finishing a study about the collecting of wild animal skins in Victorian Britain, I felt disturbingly empty—perhaps even a bit lost. I wondered what now could offer me a sense of purpose? Surprisingly, an answer emerged from a memory belonging to some time ago when I had briefly sat across […]
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While the electrification of Ireland’s urban spaces did not begin in earnest until 1929 – and indeed, rurally some two decades later in 1946 – electricity, or rather, the electronic, now operates as a symbol for this island’s contemporary situation. Digital technologies dominate Ireland’s public and private spheres, permeating all aspects of cultural and socio-economic […]
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“The fact is that we create our own precursors“, writes Jorge Luis Borges in „Kafka and his Precursors“ where he reflects on the anachronistic dynamics which results from the interaction of writers with their predecessors.[1] For my own research, inspired by 20th century approaches to Shakespeare, the question: How does modernism relate to Shakespeare and […]
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The present position of the Roman Catholic Church is that an immortal soul is infused into the fetus at the moment of conception, but this has not always been its position. The dogma that “ensoulment” coincides with the fertilization of the egg by the sperm was adopted by the Catholic Church only starting in 1869. […]
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