Ben Parker is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. His first book, Misrecognitions: Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel, was published by Cornell University Press in 2024. His scholarly articles on novels and novel theory have appeared in English Literary History, New Literary History, Modern Language Quarterly,and Novel. He has also written film and music criticism for Film Quarterly, n+1, Artforum, and The Paris Review. Author photograph © Ray Parker.
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Baggy Monsters
In 2012, the New Yorker hosted a roundtable discussion on the question “Is Television the New Cinema?” Two years later, the New York Times asked, “Are the New ‘Golden Age’ TV Shows the New Novels?” Apparently, television in its contemporary flourishing cannot be just television. One show often cited for its bigger-than-television ambitions is HBO’s […]
