Reconsiderations October 2023
Peacock’s plumage
On the early novels of Thomas Love Peacock.
Department: “Reconsiderations”
Reconsiderations September 2023
Dreaming spires? Arnold’s Oxford
On Matthew Arnold & Oxford’s past.
Reconsiderations June 2023
A quarry of quandaries
On the plays The Eldest Son & Justice by John Galsworthy.
Reconsiderations June 2023
Intolerant society
On the sad state of free speech on campus.
Reconsiderations March 2023
Making Da Ponte
On the extraordinary life of an extraordinary librettist.
Reconsiderations February 2023
Not simply the best
On Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy.
Reconsiderations December 2022
The conflicted anti-colonialist
On the career of Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Reconsiderations September 2022
Arise, Sir Arnold?
On the faceoff between Virginia Woolf and Arnold Bennett.
Reconsiderations June 2022
Critical “Potash” Theory
On Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass.
Reconsiderations March 2022
Looming morality
On George Eliot’s Silas Marner.