Recent US literature has both been informed by, and critically engaged with, materialist
conceptions of selfhood. Over the past decades, disciplines like neuroscience and …

This article considers the work, reputation, and afterlife of Laurence Eusden, an English poet
laureate (1718–1730) pilloried by Alexander Pope. Eusden chiefly wrote panegyric and …

I would like to thank my supervisors, Winfried Fluck, Frank Kelleter, and Ulla Haselstein, for
their continued encouragement, guidance, and support through all phases of the present …

[a note from the Book Reviews Editor: if you're interested in reviewing a book on any aspect
of unconventional post-1945 US literature—especially in the present format of single review …

Montaigne's reputation as an urbane, mellow proponent of the art of living well has served
his sixteenth-century French Essays poorly over the centuries. Generations of readers have …

This dissertation treats the fictional trope of the carriage accident as a site for reflecting on
eighteenth-century attitudes toward risk, coincidence, and causation. As recent scholars …