Archives by date

You are browsing the site archives by date.

Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd

Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd

Judith Paltin Cambridge University Press 2020 This book argues that modernists such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf engaged creatively with modernity’s expanding forms of collective experience and performative identities. Judith Paltin compares patterns of crowds in modernist Anglophone literature to historical arrangements and theories of democratic assembly to argue that an abstract construction of […]

Oroonoko

Oroonoko

Tiffany Potter, Editor Broadview Press 2020 The best-known work by Aphra Behn, Oroonoko is an important contribution to the development of the novel in English. Though it predates the British abolition movement by more than a century, it is also an early depiction of the dehumanizing racial violence of slavery; Oroonoko tells of a noble […]

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Eliza Haywood

Tiffany Potter, Editor Modern Language Association 2020 During her long and varied career, Eliza Haywood acted onstage, worked as a publisher and bookseller, and wrote prolifically in many genres, from novels of seduction to essays in periodicals. Her works illuminate the private emotional lives of people in eighteenth-century England, invite readers to consider how women […]

Speechsong – The Gould/Schoenberg Dialogues

Speechsong – The Gould/Schoenberg Dialogues

Richard Cavell Punctum Books 2020 Speechsong is a work of imaginative musicology that addresses the engimas of Schoenberg and Gould, of singing and speaking, of Moses und Aron, of technology and being. Its point of departure is Gould’s last public performance, given at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, where a number of Schoenberg’s […]