J.F. Bernard discusses melancholy – the happiness of being sad – through Grock the clown and Shakespeare’s tragic comedies.
Category: Language and Literature
Since 2005, blogging has become a significant trend amid Egyptian young people. Among the many blog entries published online every…
Cultural History
What We Were Left: Re-tracing the Political Aftermath of the First World War for Britain and Ireland
Mark Quigley,University of Oregon With commemorations of the 1918 Armistice this past November, four years of centennial reckonings with the…
By Murray Pittock My book is a study of the Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided…
By Sophie Chiari In Romeo and Juliet, the lovers are plagued by the dog days that overdetermine the climate of the…
Here, Brian Trehearne expands on his inspirations, and the wider context behind his article in Modernist Cultures (November 2018). My…
Language and Literature
A corpus-based approach to Charles Dickens’s use of direct thought presentation
by Pablo Ruano Delving into characters’ minds is not Dickens’s strong suit. On the contrary, Dickens’s figures are best known…
The November 2018 issue of Derrida Today publishes the keynote addresses from the 2018 Derrida Today conference in Montreal. One…
Recent research has suggested that Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century. The former slave…
John Pollock’s new article on the true provenance of ‘Mr Shuckspr’se Box’ begins with an auction, although true to our…