July 31, 2020
Novel Privilege
Conservative eighteenth-century novels used readers’ sympathies to defend the establishment.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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Around the World in Eight Years
On Juanita Harrison’s My Great, Wide, Beautiful World.
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July 29, 2020
The Danielle Steel of Communism
On Anastasia Verbitskaya’s The Keys to Happiness.
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July 28, 2020
Circulating the Facts of Slavery
How the American Anti-Slavery Almanac became an influential best seller.
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July 24, 2020
The First Best Seller
On Samuel Richardson’s Pamela and the prehistory of the romance novel.
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Monumental Mistakes
2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
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Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
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Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.