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Travel Writing as Artifact

  • Sam Metz
  • October 31, 2016
At the Public Domain Review, Nandini Das revisits The Principle Navigations and argues that the massive folio of travel writings compiled by Richard Hakluyt in 1589 is more than an artifact of…
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The 18th Century from a Balloon

  • Michelle Vider
  • July 25, 2016
In the first of a two-part series at the Public Domain Review, Lily Ford uses 18th century illustrations and drawings from balloonists to capture the changes in science and society…
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Fingerprints, Racism, and Sherlock Holmes

  • P.E. Garcia
  • February 26, 2016
Fears of mistaken identity and unconscious slips were crystallized in the literature of detection but emerged from a broad range of hermeneutic practices across the era, at a time in…
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Michelangelo vs. Raphael

  • P.E. Garcia
  • February 17, 2016
Having goaded the formerly pre-eminent Michelangelo by winning papal favour and sneaking into his as-yet unfinished Sistine Chapel, Raphael further insulted his Florentine rival in the Laocoön competition. The Public…
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The First Bohemian

  • P.E. Garcia
  • January 29, 2016
The Public Domain Review examines the work of Elizabethan writer Robert Greene, the original Bohemian, and the first known reviewer of William Shakespeare: Greene’s chief target was “an upstart Crow,”…
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Was Oscar Wilde Unoriginal?

  • P.E. Garcia
  • January 15, 2016
“Oscar,” Whistler’s barbs continued, “has the courage of the opinions… of others!” The Public Domain Review looks at the accusations of plagiarism that dogged Oscar Wilde’s oft-quoted career, and his…
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The Science of the Supernatural

  • P.E. Garcia
  • December 11, 2015
Certain people, Barrett decided, were… exquisitely attuned to vibrations that others could not perceive, to “forces unrecognized by our senses.” He considered these persons able to receive messages from super-normal…
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Between Living and Dying

  • Michelle Vider
  • November 30, 2015
At the Public Domain Review, Sharon Ruston examines contemporary influences on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, specifically with regards to scientific developments in discovering the line between life and death.
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Pynchon in Colonial New England

  • P.E. Garcia
  • November 13, 2015
At the Public Domain Review, read about Thomas Pynchon’s oldest colonial ancestor, who also happened to be a writer—though he was much less successful and much more heavily censored.
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Writing In Another Dimension

  • P.E. Garcia
  • October 30, 2015
Edison floods the world with light; biologists discover germs and defy Death; botanists grow tropical plants in Parisian glass-houses and affront Nature with hot-house orchids; the phonograph and the cinema…
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The Underdog Botanist

  • P.E. Garcia
  • October 16, 2015
This, then, is the story of how one of Britain’s most promising, skilled explorers struggled to find a place in Victorian science, unable to shake his love for the underdogs…
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The First Urban Apocalypse

  • P.E. Garcia
  • October 2, 2015
This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a bronchial spasm. For the Public Domain Review, Brett Beasley examines Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great…
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