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About Me
- Jenny Davidson
- I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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- Light reading catch-up (travel edition)
- Homecoming linkage
- Reeling and writhing and fainting in coils
- Teasers
- A cup of tea
- "Now I know how Joan of Arc felt"
- Making fly girls blush
- Stacked!
- Rain and snow
- Fabulous beasts
- A resolution
- Vexed
- Glory bumps, vowel movements
- Chatty fingers
- Proust would just have stayed in bed
- Books, covers
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
- Light reading catch-up (more Kindle)
- Distractions
- Declining and falling
- A strange business
- Stuff
- "What someone's violin is"
- "The final thing"
- Saturday link miscellany
- When the rainbow is enuf
- "Trey-eight revolve 'em"
- Three weeks
- Avenging disco Romanovs
- Light reading catch-up (Kindle edition)
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Yes, I was sure that Joseph Ritson was going to show up from the eighteenth century! There are echoes of the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry controversies in these fascinating, often reasonable concerns voiced about transcribing an oral art form, but what's strange and new are the charges about not citing crowd-sourced Internet transcriptions of the lyrics or work done by the undergraduate research assistants.
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