18th century notions of the sublime are attempts to capture something as mind-blowing as the Grand Canyon, which I visited yesterday.
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The Grand Canyon, Abyss Sublime
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Another Way Frankenstein Is Relevant
Friday I somehow missed this New Yorker article on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein when it appeared last year in observance of the novel’s 200th anniversary. Although anti-Trump pundits have frequently cited Frankenstein in recent years to capture how the GOP created a monster it couldn’t control (see here and here), Joan Lepore argues that the novel […]
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