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Monday, January 23, 2006
Voltaic Yoo-hoo
A fabulous little essay in the Village Voice by Devin McKinney
on
Harry Stephen Keeler
and the
Collins Library
reissue of the really quite amazing
The Riddle of the Traveling Skull
. (
Here is me raving at the end of December about how much I liked it
.)
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Jenny Davidson
I have published four novels and two books about eighteenth-century British literature; my latest book is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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Reading Style: A Life in Sentences
Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century
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Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen
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