What happened to beauty? How did the university literature classroom turn into a seminar on politics? Focusing on such writers as Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, and James Merrill, this book exami
In January 1839, photography was announced to the world. Two years prior, a young Queen Victoria ascended to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland. These two events, while seemingly unrelated, marke
Invented during a period of anxiety about the ability of human memory to cope with the demands of expanding knowledge, the camera changed the way the Victorians saw the world around them. By picturing
