183. (J.R.R. Tolkien)

I don’t think it’s much use denying that Tolkien’s mythology is in some ways racist: growing from Anglo-Saxon ideologies of … More

160. (William Gaddis)

Charles Dickens appears as a character in Gaddis’ The Recognitions, published in 1955, and it is hard not to believe that … More

This post will open with George Eliot and then drift, possibly to return. For a starting point, consider one of … More

A featherless bipedal puzzle, but with wings: that Carlyle seems a distinctly queer, yet central, Victorian voice; that the word … More

One of the chief differences between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century voices of critical prose is that the former wrote for the … More