Literary Studies Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/literary-studies/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:18:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Literary Studies Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/literary-studies/ 32 32 “Love and Beauty Their Prison”: Talking with Carolyn Dever on Michael Field https://www.publicbooks.org/carolyn-dever-on-michael-field-katharine-bradley-edith-cooper/ Wed, 03 Aug 2022 15:00:50 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=49573 “The diary has challenged every category of literary analysis for me.”

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]]> Do the Humanities Need Experts or Skeptics? https://www.publicbooks.org/do-the-humanities-need-experts-or-skeptics/ Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:00:59 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=46672 Why are Anglophone novels more worthy of attention than Ottoman shadow puppetry or the art of knot-tying? Just what are the humanities for?

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]]> Did Don Quixote Long for Muslim Spain? https://www.publicbooks.org/did-don-quixote-long-for-muslim-spain/ Wed, 08 Dec 2021 16:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=46688 Between the lines, Cervantes critiqued the Catholic church, and lamented over the systematic destruction of Islamic culture in Spain.

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]]> Shoptalk: Overheard at MLA 2020 https://www.publicbooks.org/shoptalk-overheard-at-mla-2020/ Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:00:30 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=33584 This year’s Modern Language Association Annual Convention took place January 9–12 in Seattle, Washington. Participants were far from sleepless as they traversed ...

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]]> Shoptalk: Overheard at ACLA 2019 https://www.publicbooks.org/shoptalk-overheard-at-acla-2019/ Mon, 18 Mar 2019 15:00:14 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=27090 This year’s annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association gathered at Georgetown University. Participants met in small ...

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]]> Shoptalk: Overheard at MLA 2019 https://www.publicbooks.org/shoptalk-overheard-at-mla-2019/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:00:59 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=25981 This year’s MLA convention in Chicago, Illinois, was a suspiciously pleasant affair: clear weather, somewhat navigable conference spaces, and proximity to ...

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