...Carra Glatt Hack Daniel , Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2017 ), 284 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

...Paul J. Griffiths Quietists aim to bring something to rest, to move it from activity to quiescence. This essay depicts and advocates a quietism of political interest, which is to say a divorce of political action from interest in the outcome of such action. Its principal interlocutor is Pascal...

... or scandalized his colleagues and readers. In the first place, was he a sociologist, an anthropologist, a philosopher? Though he did not make lasting commitments of that kind, he did make deeper ones that did not change—above all, never to explain anything in terms of something more general and, thus, never...

... would suggest that pluralism or something like it was operative, there is virtually no mention of the other in the religious corpus of either tradition. This essay recommends and demonstrates a historical approach more alert to the possibility that religious pluralism may best be found in the past...

... vision, God placed in her hand “something small, no bigger than a hazelnut,” which is both contingent and eternal, all and nothing — opposites coexisting. This essay analyzes how Julian's image of the hazelnut as paradoxical is a simultaneity of opposites and argues that paradox, enacted and experienced...

...Daniel J. Sharfstein Beginning with the assumption that race is a conceptual blur, this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies” argues that race conflates what is plain to see with something that is invisible. Race roots today's policy decisions in a remote and often imagined...

... sequence, continuity, and contrast from students' minds and thereby to erase history itself. The point is not that there is something wrong with dividing history into period courses—some such division is unavoidable and necessary—but that unless period courses are connected, students will come away...

... as if a parable, and while its moral goes unstated, the reader's attention is drawn to the unsettled question of whether James exerted maximal effort for minimal results, or whether he knew something about the value of freshness undreamed of by those more patient and dignified in pursuing their desires. © 2013...

... that the practice seemed almost transhistorical, something that was done always and everywhere. By the reign of Louis XIII, however, statesmen began stressing the limits of interdynastic marriage as a diplomatic strategy. This transformation of French affairs of state coincided with the appearance of prose romances...

... remark of J. H. Elliott’s: “Something is amiss when the name of Martin Guerre threatens to become better known than that of Martin Luther.” In the present piece, Thomas writes of Ginzburg, a founder of Italian microhistory, that he is more a “European intellectual” than a “mere historian,” the difference...

... arrangements were not an endorsement of ideals of universal suffrage, representative democracy, and majoritarianism but instead—along with legal agency—mechanisms for the protection of the people from tyranny. This overlooked feature of Leveller political thought may have something to teach us about...

...Miguel Tamen In this guest column, the author argues, first, that being at the place of an event does not guarantee that one understands what is going on and, second, that something's happening with or to me does not guarantee that I understand what has occurred. He shows that it is generally...

.... Elliott's: “Something is amiss when the name of Martin Guerre threatens to become better known than that of Martin Luther.” In the present piece, Thomas writes of Ginzburg, a founder of Italian microhistory, that he is more a “European intellectual” than a “mere historian,” the difference being...

... corporately or individually, to begin everything or indeed anything again from scratch. Such presumptions are indeed present in some varieties of contemporary fanaticism, but, more to the point, it is suggested that the feeling of doing something for the first time is the oldest feeling in the world. Duke...

...Mark Bauerlein Elizabeth Fox-Genovese died in January 2007. She was a renowned scholar and important public intellectual, but in this reminiscence Mark Bauerlein recalls her as something else: a model colleague. Despite the many attacks on her work and the difficulties she encountered in her...

... was the dreamer of this untransshipped dream? It was that notoriously incompetent transshipper Kaiser Wilhelm the Second. Transshipped is a funny word. We can- not transship by using transports or even trucks. Something transshipped moves from one logical realm (in this case...

... are not writing anything at all? It is partly that we take for granted that writing something involves at least knowing what one has written. Compare what I asked you to imagine yourself doing, on the one hand, with actually composing those lines. There is a sense in which you seem, in both cases...

... gives a reminder, one says something one’s audience already knows but has perhaps forgotten. If the work of the philosopher consists in assembling reminders, it does not include putting forward distinctively philosophical theses. That would be a matter of making claims that might be news to one’s...

... rise to an interesting paradox: how can something appear to be fantastic, but not actually be fantastic? That had to be the ultimate forgery. I was almost beside myself with rage, scorn, and exasperation at the fact that she could thus appear to be a brilliant writer, without actually being so...

... how much I will write or whether I will end up continuing to write at all. But it is striking that, even if I can safely assume that I will write something, I am still unable to know what it is that I am going to say. And yet here I am in the middle of the third sentence of saying it. My...