Presence, Absence and Retreat in Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations
Men seek retreats for themselves--in the country, by the sea, in the hills--and you yourself are particularly prone to this yearning. But all this is...
The Hermeneutics of Reading Foucault
“Maybe our problem is now to discover that the self is nothing else than the historical correlation of the technology built in our history.” --...
Birtherism and the Scholarly Debate over Equiano
How disarming it was in reading the essay "Olaudah Equiano, Written by Himself," to learn that in the 217 years between the time Equiano (self-published)...
Robinson Crusoe: English Narcissus?
“Expanding Empires, Expanding Selves: Colonialism, the Novel, and Robinson Crusoe” by Brett McInelly suggests it will detail the relationship between the expanding notion of the...
The 18th Century Marriage Market as per Evelina’s Lord Orville and Sir Clement Willoughby
The dialogue between Lord Orville and Sir Clement Willoughby in volume 3, letter 14, Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars, of Evelina: Or the History...