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John Plotz
When you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to the half left behind? Semi-Detached delves into this state of being: what it means to be within…
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What kind of adventure begins in the living room on a rainy Monday afternoon? It depends. Say you just found out that Granny, who raised you, is going to lose…
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What fueled the Victorian passion for hair-jewelry and memorial rings? When would an everyday object metamorphose from commodity to precious relic? This title examines the role played by portable objects…
Between 1800 and 1850, political demonstrations and the tumult of a ballooning street life not only brought novel kinds of crowds onto the streets of London, but also fundamentally changed…
Leading writers, critics, and scholars show why their favorite forgotten books deserve a new audience. In these thoughtful, often personal essays, contributors-including Caleb Crain, Merve Emre, Ursula K. Le Guin…
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John Plotz (Mandel Professor of Humanities, Brandeis University)
A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea novels that celebrates Le Guin’s monumental worldbuilding achievement recaptures the glories of childhood reading.
Portable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday explores issues related to objecthood, the everyday, and portability within the novel. The scope of this wide-ranging collection includes nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction…
John Ploetz
An ancient oak, the shrouded history of an old Minnesota farm, and the oldest house in the neighborhood, weave together as pieces of a hundred year old murder mystery uncovered…
