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Everybody’s talking about race, but not many seem to know what it is, or where it came from. That’s understandable, for there’s not a single story of the history of race to be written. How concepts of race were developed, and what they came to over time, is different for different global regions and different […]
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For centuries, scholars have characterized eighteenth-century literary satire as an aggressive and specifically masculine practice and genre. This perception is clearly apparent in twentieth-century literary theory, in which critical investigations of satire focused almost exclusively on a handful of male writers (Pope, Swift, Dryden, Rochester, etc.) and repeatedly affirmed that, in the words of David […]
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Figure 1: Catalogue from Shakespeare's First Folio (1623; STC 22273). Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Shelf mark PFORZ 905 PFZ.
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In a magazine illustration based on a painting by Louis Katzenstein, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm sit and listen to the folk tales told by Dorothea Viehmann, an inn-keeper’s daughter who knew a wealth of stories, many of which appeared in the Grimms’ famous collection Children’s and Household Tales. It’s an idealized picture of how an […]
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Reading the changing platforms of Eighteenth Century Collections Online. In Old Books and Digital Publishing: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, I analysed the various interfaces to Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), including Jisc’s Historical Texts as well as Gale’s various platforms. However, since the book was published both Gale and Jisc have modified these interfaces, […]
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I have the great honor of inaugurating a new series on World Literature at Cambridge University Press. Long, long ago, before I ever dreamed of writing such a book, I was introduced to the debates on world literature through Susan Sontag’s 2005 essay “The World as India.” At the time, I was very much not […]
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The English language comes ready-made with the gender-neutral third person pronoun “they,” and a history stretching back before Shakespeare of using it in a singular context for that very purpose. Grammatically speaking, pronouns are a bit trickier in French. There is no gender-neutral third person equivalent of “they” in French. At least there wasn’t, officially, […]
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Political astrology is one of those idiosyncratic 18th century genres that seem bizarre to the modern sensibility.[1] Despite this unfamiliarity, I would suggest that a close analogue of political astrology has fiercely reasserted itself in the guise of the so-called “QAnon” conspiracy theory. Initially an obscure phenomenon relegated to the internet demimonde, it gradually began […]
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