-
Juteopolis?: Dundee’s history as a leading textile town
Read more: Juteopolis?: Dundee’s history as a leading textile townThe authors of The Triumph of Textiles discuss poverty and prosperity during Dundee's time as a textile town
Juteopolis?: Dundee’s history as a leading textile town

Do your movements in sleep resemble artificial frogs?

The use and abuse of antiquity for life

Provost Pawkie’s Travels in Time: The Provost, by John Galt

by Caroline McCracken-Flesher In Provost Pawkie’s Gudetown readers hear the town clock tick just once. The city fathers gather at the council chamber. “[The] town was lying in the defencelessness of sleep,” Pawkie remembers, “and nothing was heard but the…
The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Q&A

by Sophie Chiari and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise In the following quiz, each answer is related to a particular chapter of The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. We hope, as a result, that this fun test will enable you…
The US and UK as embedded democracies

Understanding Wang Zengqi’s Subtle Art of Fiction: Is It Beyond Translation’s Reach?

by Tao Peng Why Do Chinese Readers Like Wang Zengqi? During Wang Zengqi’s (1920–1997) lifetime, his works were not yet bestsellers in bookstores across China as they are today, nor were there as many academic articles discussing their literary value.…
Q&A with Ruth M. McAdams, author of Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature

by Ruth M. McAdams Tell us a bit about your book. Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature is about what happened when Victorians looked around for signs of the historical progress that was allegedly taking place on a broad scale.…
Fr John Morrison: defender of an island’s cultural heritage and faith

This Deleuzian Century
