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Napoleon Bonaparte: Corsican, illustrious general, First Consul, Emperor of the French, exile, prisoner. It’s quite a CV. He was also a PR expert ahead of his time, and one of his chosen media for this was the theatre. Theatre had the potential to reach thousands of spectators and, when it was reported in the press, […]
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What did it mean to travel in the premodern world – long before passports, maps, or reliable roads? Countless surviving yet often overlooked accounts open a window onto a time when people from Asia, Africa, and Europe journeyed immense distances on foot, by caravan, or across unpredictable seas. Their stories reveal not only the physical […]
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In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Marc Antony famously begins his funeral oration by exclaiming, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.” This is an elegant way of asking for attention. At the same time, it engages with important ideas about ears and audition in the early modern period and the degree to which listening might be […]
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The law underwent significant developments in eighteenth-century Britain as jurists and legislators adapted older doctrines to fit the needs of an increasingly commercial, industrial, and imperial society. These developments at once shaped and were shaped by the period’s imaginative writing. In an era when disciplinary boundaries had not yet hardened, some men trained for the […]
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Recent U.S. tariff policies have made mundane commodities remarkably visible, with almost every week bringing news about the logistics of importing or exporting essential items, from hamburgers to cement. The results are sometimes bizarre: a recent House hearing saw the U.S. commerce secretary insist that ‘we cannot build bananas in America’, in response to a […]
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This book tells the story of mass incarceration through the eyes of the writers who lived through it. Long before Michelle Alexander characterized mass incarceration as the new Jim Crow in America, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was in jail protesting Jim Crow in America. King did not live long enough to see the dramatic […]
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“Any judgement of MUSSOLINI will be in a measure an act of faith, it will depend on what you believe the man means, what you believe that he wants to accomplish.” — Ezra Pound, Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935). Poet Ezra Pound was a champion of the modernist literary movement, known for its clean, spare imagery […]
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Émile Zola’s Le Rêve—The Dream, in English—appeared in book form in October 1888. It was a strikingly slender novel, by Zola’s standards—the shortest of the twenty volumes that would make up his epic series about the Rougon-Macquart family (1871-93). Yet more curious was its subject: the fantasy life of one foundling Angélique Rougon, whose wayward […]
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