HALLOWEEN: The Romantic Witch Embodied Anger
My Halloween book feature of the year is a scholarly look at witchcraft in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The “emasculating potential of the female demonic” is perfectly illustrated…
A PROGRESSIVE FORCE FOR CHANGE
The power of speech has been a great focus of discussion for several years now, as we have seen it used in political discourse for the most nefarious of purposes.…
A Grammar of Intimacy
The author of this exemplary book dealing with sympathy in Romantic-era literature is Stacey McDowell, associate professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies (Univ. of Warwick). I found the word…