Daniel Hack is professor of English at the University of Michigan and author of The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel and Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, he is currently writing a book tentatively titled “Novel Meanings: Fiction and the Rise of Meaningfulness.”
Daniel Hack
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B-Sides: J. L. Carr’s “A Month in the Country”
The impact of the novel’s silences and enigmas is amplified by the enigma that is Carr himself.
Whitman with Quinoa
Although David Copperfield grows up to be a successful novelist, Charles Dickens’s contemporary readers had no reason to suspect the historical author had based parts of his protagonist’s story on his own life—that he had, in fact, assigned his own most traumatic childhood experiences to David, going so far as to incorporate passages from an […]
Hollowgram
Make a left at the corner, head down the road about six miles, make a couple of quick rights, and you’re there: the plant of Thomson-Shore, printer of Dave Eggers’s new novel, A Hologram for the King. At least, that’s where you’ll be if you start out from the spot where I am typing these […]
