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To be convalescent, in the nineteenth century, was to have survived a medical crisis and to be still picking up the pieces. The category of convalescence could be applied to the survival of all kinds of traumatic medical experiences—a brush with death in a cholera epidemic, an emergency amputation, even a mental health crisis. Convalescents […]
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Why does art even have a history, asked Ernst Gombrich in his classic book Art and Illusion? We might suppose, for instance, that everyone’s pictures would be different, a stylistic jumble resulting from varying competencies, individual desires, local preoccupations. Or to the contrary, we might assume that they would be basically the same, the way […]
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Back in the 1700s, the first performance of an actor in the patent theatres would often be under some anonymous title like ‘A Gentleman (who never appear’d on any stage)’. Sometimes, actors even pushed this a bit further, and maintained a kind of pseudo-anonymity in later performances, using titles like ‘the Gentleman who perform’d King […]
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The five plays in Volume IV of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn date from the final years of Behn’s professional career. Three of the plays were performed during her lifetime: The City-Heiress (1682), The Luckey Chance (1686) and The Emperor of the Moon (1687). Two works appeared on the stage and […]
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a surge in anti-Asian sentiment, with nearly 3800 incidents of harassment, discrimination, and violence toward Asian and Asian Americans reported this past year. Attacks against elders and the murder of six Asian American women in Atlanta on March 16, 2021 have raised a national outcry. These acts of […]
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What are the most distinctive achievements of European civilization? According to the Bulgarian-born thinker Tzvetan Todorov, they are rationality, justice, democracy, individual freedom, secularism, and tolerance. To this list, one might add science, the glories of European art, literature, and music, humanism, and a rich and varied philosophical tradition. To focus solely on those achievements […]
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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s HEMINGWAY premieres on PBS on April 5, 2021. Directed by acclaimed documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, written by Geoffrey C. Ward, and produced by Sarah Botstein, Burns, and Novick, HEMINGWAY is a production of Florentine Films and WETA, Washington, D.C. The three-part, six-hour film series explores the life […]
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Nowadays reading literature, particularly fiction, is perceived as a predominantly feminine activity. The figure of the female reader—though she is not always wearing clothes or even paying attention to her book— has long been an object of aesthetic fascination. A profusion of calendars, cards, and art books are available with the ostensibly empowering theme of […]
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