Tag Archives: Edmund Burke

The Grand Canyon, Abyss Sublime

By Robin Bates | Published: January 4, 2023

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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Another Way Frankenstein Is Relevant

By Robin Bates | Published: February 1, 2019

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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