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  • 23
    Mar

    2023

    What is the art of the reprint?

    For one of the first of the over 250 drawings that Rockwell Kent made to illustrate Herman Melville’s Moby Dick (1851) in 1930, he propped Ishmael up on his elbows, lying on his belly on a grassy hill....

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  • 7
    Mar

    2023

    Ubiquitous Nazism

    Between the time of the Second World War and the present day there has been a steady stream of cultural interest in Nazism, World War II, the Holocaust, and the aftermath of these events. Novels like...

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  • 2
    Mar

    2023

    The End of Politics

    In February 1825, Mary Shelley approached a member of parliament with a modest proposal. “I have often wished to be present at a debate in the House of Commons,” the author of Frankenstein wrote to...

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  • 27
    Feb

    2023

    What is new with the Australian Novel?

    The impetus for us editing this volume came from two sources. One was the sense that Elizabeth Webby’s The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature (2001), a fine work for its era, needed updating,...

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  • 21
    Feb

    2023

    Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom: Walking with...

    A few years ago after finishing a study about the collecting of wild animal skins in Victorian Britain, I felt disturbingly empty—perhaps even a bit lost. I wondered what now could offer me a sense...

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  • 14
    Feb

    2023

    Technologies in/of Irish writing

    While the electrification of Ireland’s urban spaces did not begin in earnest until 1929 – and indeed, rurally some two decades later in 1946 – electricity, or rather, the electronic, now operates...

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    Jan

    2023

    When was an embryo considered a person in the...

    The present position of the Roman Catholic Church is that an immortal soul is infused into the fetus at the moment of conception, but this has not always been its position. The dogma that “ensoulment”...

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  • 19
    Jan

    2023

    When Medieval Silences Speak

    By the time I wrote Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric: Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy, I’d spent thirty years loitering at the margins of medieval texts–squinting in the half-light,...

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