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Insurgent Testimonies: Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature
by Nicole Rizzuto. During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around the world,…
December 1, 2015
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Remote Control
by Caetlin Benson-Allott. Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary.…
January 29, 2015
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The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth
Edited by Richard Gravil, Daniel Robinson, Duncan Wu. The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-eight essays, by an international team of scholar-critics, to…
January 22, 2015
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“So What Are You Going to Do with That?” Finding Careers Outside Academia
by Maggie Debelius & Susan Basalla. Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of PhDs and MAs every year. Yet more than half of all college courses are taught by adjunct…
December 26, 2014
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Reading What’s There: Essays on Shakespeare in Honor of Stephen Booth
Edited by Michael J. Collins. The twelve essays were written not simply to honor Stephen Booth, but to further the study of Shakespeare. Booth has, for over forty years, proposed…
December 5, 2014
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Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology
by Brian Hochman. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers and anthropologists believed that the world’s primitive races were on the brink of.…
November 15, 2014
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So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
by Maureen Corrigan. As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover extraordinaire, points out, while Fitzgerald’s masterpiece may be one of the most popular novels in America, many of us…
September 9, 2014
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Among Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry
Edited by Libbie Rifkin and Anne Dewey. Philosophers and theorists have long recognized both the subversive and the transformative possibilities of friendship, the intimacy of…
April 25, 2013
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Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing
by Caetlin Benson-Allott. Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or…
March 22, 2013
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Milton and The Art of Rhetoric
by Daniel Shore. Challenging the conventional view of John Milton as an iconoclast who spoke only to a 'fit audience though few', Daniel Shore argues that Milton was a far more…
June 30, 2012