Left: Dickens reading to his daughters. Right: The Pickwick Papers
According to Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier, reading aloud was a common practice in the ancient world, the Middle Age…
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October 11, 2017- July 17, 2015News, Reviews, and Interviews A new literary discovery featuring Charles Dickens’s annotations in his literary magazine reveals the identity of many Victorian authors who had been publishing anonymous…
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A resident of Hell, I’ve been sitting here,
Lord,
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Do I not deserve
to be…
Courtesy of University of New Mexico Press / Stock.adobe.comThe Orphan (Isaac Luria)
what is the matter? why do you
always pursue me as an enemy?/…
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