• The History of Literature

    The History of Literature

    Jesse Kavadlo Puts Don DeLillo into Context

    By History of Literature  July 5, 2023
    The History of Literature

    “A Race Problem.” Jolene Hubbs on Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature

    By History of Literature  June 20, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Erotic Writer and Eponym of Sadism: How Marquis de Sade Became the Scandalizing Writer He Was

    By History of Literature  June 5, 2023
    The History of Literature

    On Albert Camus: The Stranger, The Plague, and the Existentialists

    By History of Literature  May 30, 2023
    The History of Literature

    How Has the Turbulent History of Northern Ireland Changed the Literary Landscape?

    By History of Literature  May 22, 2023
    History of Literature

    Alison Strayer on the Oeuvre of Annie Ernaux and Translating Her Legacy

    By History of Literature  May 15, 2023
    The History of Literature

    How Byron’s Flamboyant Life Shaped His Poetry

    By History of Literature  May 8, 2023
    The History of Literature

    The Six Films that Helped Spark a Black Film Renaissance

    By History of Literature  May 1, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Black Shakespeare: Ian Smith on Systematic Whiteness and Transforming the Way We Interpret Shakespeare

    By History of Literature  April 24, 2023
    History of Literature

    Is Persuasion the Perfect Novel?

    By History of Literature  April 11, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Who Was the Man Behind Oscar Wilde’s Downfall?

    By History of Literature  April 3, 2023
    The History of Literature

    The Art of War: How Can a Book Written Two and a Half Millennia Ago Remain Timeless?

    By History of Literature  March 27, 2023
    The History of Literature

    A Deep-Dive on Catullus, the Roman Poet of Fierce Desire and Hatred

    By History of Literature  March 20, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Was Nabokov’s Love of the Cinema a Way to Survive Exile?

    By History of Literature  March 13, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Schopenhauer: Pessimist or Secretly Hopeful?

    By History of Literature  March 7, 2023
    The History of Literature

    James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

    By History of Literature  February 21, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Dr. Tara A. Bynum Considers Four Canonical Black Writers from the 18th and Early 19th Centuries

    By History of Literature  February 13, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Who Really Was Margaret Fuller Before Her Sudden Death?

    By History of Literature  February 6, 2023
    The History of Literature

    10 Essential Questions About Moby-Dick

    By History of Literature  January 30, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Auden and the Muse of History with Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb

    By History of Literature  January 23, 2023
    The History of Literature

    Does Edith Wharton Hate Us?

    By History of Literature  January 17, 2023
    History of Literature

    How Was Your Ulysses?

    By History of Literature  October 24, 2022
    History of Literature

    The Cultural Influence of Lady Chatterley’s Lover on Indian Novelist Saikat Majumdar

    By History of Literature  October 3, 2022
    Literary Criticism

    There Were British Spy Novels Before James Bond

    By History of Literature  September 26, 2022
    The History of Literature

    The Poets’ Guide to Economics

    By History of Literature  September 6, 2022
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