From William Godwin’s Things as They Are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794): Among my melancholy reflections I tasked my memory,… READ MORE
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My “Topics in Romanticism” course met last Thursday evening for the first time this semester. Since we convene only once a week, I decided we… READ MORE
Today is Virginia Woolf’s birthday. While I don’t normally celebrate or recognize the birthdays of my favorite authors, my relationship and… READ MORE
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Last year, at the 24th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, I had the pleasure—along with dozens and dozens of other… READ MORE
Though I had hoped my excursion back through Lawrence’s fiction would have gone a bit quicker, I’ve been relishing Paul Morel,… READ MORE
Near the beginning of his essay “Mediators” (Negotations 121-34), Gilles Deleuze writes: The kind of movements you find in sports and… READ MORE
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Bacon Deleuze What is painted is the sensation. There is a beauty to these entangled Figures. They do not merge… READ MORE
This one hits very close to home this weekend . . . The Prelude Book One Introduction—Childhood and School-Time [.… READ MORE
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This spring I’ll be teaching ENG 377: Topics in Romanticism at the University of Rhode Island. While romanticism is not… READ MORE