Hey man congratulations on the new book. Really looking forward to looking up the sources mentioned in its footnotes
Is this digital humanities
Taught Dickinson the other day and one exercise was giving each group a different poem and having them make a case for it as the most quintessentially Dickinsonian one. "There's a certain slant of light" won, partly thanks to a quantitative argument about the number of dashes
They really were
It is the 1990s. You are a literary critic. You have just realised that developments in the historical marketplace for print exert an influence on literary form. You feel like a god
Scholars have almost entirely overlooked this concept, which I and several of my friends recently invented
Footnotes are often held up as symbols of academics' pompousness and pedantry, but this is unfair. We also use them to exercise our hobby horses and throw shade on our enemies
Early career academics should be assigned a nemesis by their institution