Here, Brian Trehearne expands on his inspirations, and the wider context behind his article in Modernist Cultures (November 2018). My…
Category: Language and Literature
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…
By Chris Coffman The Parisian salon hosted by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas was unique among queer modernist spaces….
CounterText guest editor Norbert Bugeja shares some interesting thoughts about the special issue, Afterward/Afterword, and the important, complex questions it…
2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the Ben Jonson Journal. Read on and learn more about the history and impact…
By Nina Engelhardt 1. Contrast Mentioning ‘literature and mathematics’ in one breath often leads to raised eyebrows and reminders of…
Walter Scott’s poetry dominated the early years of the nineteenth century but has subsequently fallen into relative obscurity. The first…