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Humanities and Social Sciences 2.0: A User Guide What are the root causes of the undesirable futures we currently keep creating? To tackle today’s daunting challenges, we need critical self-awareness and courage to dare to reimagine and reanimate our communal spaces...
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In the introduction to Genre’s special issue, Revisiting (Isobel Armstrong’s) The Radical Aesthetic, co-editors Merve Emre and Justin A. Sider comment on Professor Brinkema’s essay: “We begin with Eugenie...
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This book is a biographical study of unprecedented scope and detail of the celebrated Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland, whose magnificent repertory of old Scottish ballads attracted the fascinated attention of intellectuals and song collectors during the later...
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Former Lecturer Willie Donaldson has published a new article in the Studies in Scottish Literature, “Thomas Blackwell and the Foundation of Modern Literary History.” This article charts the leading Enlightenment figure’s (previously neglected) role...
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Written by Benjamin Mangrum In the 1950s, a Broadway play tackled the fear that “electronic brains” would automate humans out of jobs. The computer first appeared on the Broadway stage in 1955 in a romantic comedy—William Marchant’s The Desk Set. The play centers on...