Beginning with Leslie Fiedler’s groundbreaking Love and Death in the American Novel, UB’s English Department has had a long history of innovative work in nineteenth-century American literary studies.
As a hardened Internet veteran, there isn’t much out there that surprises me. But this is something truly unique, whip-smart, and brilliantly executed: a pair of writers at Hooded Utilitarian wrote an ...
Jillian Spivey Caddell does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...
Around 2008, I began to notice an interesting fact: Google Books was reshaping the way I did research. I was on sabbatical and had more time than usual to pursue various projects. Like most historians ...
Ph.D. Minnesota '60.History of the study of language, history of ideas, medieval. From Locke to Saussure: Essays on the Study of Language and Intellectual History; The Study of Language in England ...
The short story “A Centennial-Telegraphic Romance,” which appeared in the 1877 anthology Lightning Flashes and Electric Dashes, begins quite hopefully for our hero, Sydney Summerville. A Western Union ...
Structures of cultural production in nineteenth-century France / Michael Moriarty -- The link between literary and artistic struggles / Pierre Bourdieu -- 'A tout prix devenir quelqu'un' : the women ...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of a good brain must be in want of a book. From Jane Austen to the Brontë sisters, 19th century literature churned out some powerful ...
It’s a great time to be a lover (and collector) of important American literature. Christie’s will auction off a stunning collection of rare printed books and manuscripts belonging to Bruce M. Lisman ...