Distant Chimeras: John Galsworthy, the Edwardian Novel, and the Contradictions of Internationalism

The Triumphant Lion: Producing a Venetian Apocalypse in Late Sixteenth-Century Political Prophecy

The article examines a rare sixteenth-century exegesis by Marco Antonio Lovisino. His commentary, written in Latin and vernacular Italian, features nine unique woodcuts that illustrate various apocalyptic scenes from the prophecy of 2 Esdras. Delving into the woodcut imagery and history of printing offers insights into...

Amidst the Wreckage: Joseph Conrad's Epistemology of Englishness and Empire

The Fundamentalist-Modernist Conflict of the 1920s in the Augustana Synod—and Beyond

The Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, known more often as the Augustana Synod, was the only enduring Swedish American Lutheran denomination in American history. Despite its institutional unity, the denomination experienced internal struggles, exemplified by the conflict in the 1920s between so-called "Fundamentali...

Radical Jewish Tradition

Paul Buhle The Radical Jewish Tradition by Donny Glickstein and Janey Stone. The book, Buhle writes, is a window onto "the antinomies of nineteenth-century Jewish life"—including the growing movement against Zionism and for socialism among Eastern European Jews. This authors, Buhle notes, also tells the story of Jewish...

Gillespie, Vincent, 1954-2025

Vincent Gillespie was a distinguished scholar of medieval English religious writing, especially in its pastoral uses and its contemplative traditions. He pursued the codicological study of such works in their manuscript formats, including a catalogue of a Birgittine library. He combined that with the literary study of...

"The Fretful Stir": The Romantic Poets, Ireland, and the 1798 Rebellion

Abstract:The repudiation of radicalism in Wordsworth and Coleridge's disavowal of politics in the years 1797–98 is often attributed to generalized fears of a French invasion, or a recoil from "remembered terror" years earlier. This essay contends that the terror was both closer to home, and to the present, in the form...