A literary and philosophical society has relaunched more than 150 years after its last meeting. Auburn Langley set up the new ...

including the literary, the economic, and incipiently, the imperial. It is the great age of satire and the city, in which the highest and lowest genres meet in the strangest of mixtures. know a ...

The former couple faces a lawsuit from a woman who worked for the couple in New Zealand. The items that vanished from the National Library of Scotland in the 1960s included poems and songs. The ...

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The Dream of Enlightenment is billed as an engaging account of the thought of leading philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries. Gottlieb certainly does engage his reader: a former executive editor ...

“[T]he interest in border crossings,” Sebald writes in his foreword — apt for a country that connected western and eastern Europe, and produced a literature that, like Sebald’s ...

But the Enlightenment named itself as it was happening: l’Illuminisme, Aufklärung, Haskalah. As Vincenzo Ferrone argues in this illuminating history, the Enlightenment was simultaneously a ...

The Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk sees the problem of literary form and social change ... our interest from Mann’s comic encyclopedia of Enlightenment ideas to the explosions of reality and ...

His writing style, which features realism and the grotesque, has influenced modern literature and created a lane that is authentically his. Like many authors who have mastered specific themes ...