Review: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain
byMelanie Keefe. Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015. vi+ 232pp. £16.99/$24.99 hardcover. In…
Melanie Keefe. Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015. vi+ 232pp. £16.99/$24.99 hardcover. In…
Jessica Brantley, Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp….
“Why is it that you like to read such dark stories?” As a literature professor at a small evangelical Christian college, I often get…
Theologian Benjamin Myers argues that modern western culture, like our cultural forbearers, remains rooted in sainthood. Instead of wearing habits and living in monasteries,…
It is often argued that we are what we read. According to a study conducted by a professor at Dartmouth, the books we read…
Teaching allegory is always a bit of an uphill battle. I used to think that allegory was difficult for students because they simply weren’t…
Our culture is, whether we know it or not, a Romantic culture, indeed, a revolutionary culture, that is, one predicated on the rejection of…