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Amanda Gorman, delivering her poem at the 2021 presidential inauguration. Photo credits: Thomas Hatzenbuhler, Architect of the Capitol. Sourced from Library of Congress Blog
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It sounds like an odd contradiction that anyone might enjoy melancholy: an age-old disease of body, mind, and spirit typically characterised by sadness and fear. Melancholy’s symptoms could be extreme, its consequences fatal. But when Robert Burton set out to write The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), which celebrates its 400th anniversary this year, he confronted […]
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For a Native studies scholar who studiously avoids definitive proclamations about the nature of our field or procrustean taxonomies of its artistic productions, editing a Cambridge History of Native American Literature was a prospect both formidable and a little thrilling. How, I wondered, could I maintain my conviction about the strained, even dangerous incoherence of […]
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To coincide with the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race, we talked to some of the contributors of the volume. We asked them what they hope students and teachers would gain from their chapter, and where they hope the field will go in the future. Read on for their responses… Scott Newstok, […]
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According to figures generously supplied by Martin Wiggins, of the approximately 3000 plays that were written between c.1567 and 1642 in England, a mere 543 from the public theatres have survived in print or manuscript. In other words, whenever we try to understand Shakespeare’s forty or so surviving plays in the context of the theatre […]
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We have spent the last couple of years editing a Cambridge volume on gender in American literature and thinking about what the Trump administration’s glorification of white patriarchal nationalism has taught us about gender in American literary history. We submitted the manuscript of the volume a scant two weeks before COVID-19 emerged, and well before […]
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In 1686, John Moyle published a guidebook for young surgeons working in the navy. Before a battle, he advised, they should set up their stations ready to perform amputations. They’d need a barrel to store implements such as their bone saw and knives, and another container in which to keep the disembodied limbs ‘until there […]
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The breadth and variety of works that can be gathered together under the heading of ‘the novel in French’ is nothing short of breathtaking. Of course France is a major source for these works, but so too are Canada, Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe, Senegal, Cameroon and Rwanda, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco… The novel in French […]
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