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“[A] rambunctious homage, which retells famous episodes from the Spanish classic but sets them alongside capsule histories of Miguel de Cervantes’s life and the novel’s reception, as well as fourth wall-crashing ruminations on its outsized cultural influence. If you’ve ever wondered what Don Quixote would say if he saw ‘Man of La Mancha’ on Broadway, this is the book for you.”
—Wall Street Journal
Also available in Spanglish!
This month marks the 175th anniversary of the publication of A Christmas Carol. Edward Guiliano, co-editor of Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction, explains how A Christmas Carol was received by its Victorian audience, and its lasting influence today on Tumblr:
“Dickens’s contemporaries were remarkably prompt in recognizing its [A Christmas Carol’s] outstanding merits and reviewers were making extraordinarily high claims for it. This was a carol that would be ‘heard and remembered a hundred Christmases to come,’ one reviewer rightly foretold. . .” (more)
The Other American Moderns: Matsura, Ishigaki, Nada, Hayakawa by ShiPu Wang is the winner of the
2018 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Book PrizeThe Wall Street Journal calls Don Quixote of la Mancha by Ilan Stavans and Roberto Weil a “rambunctious homage.”
Free Reads from Dickens Studies Annual
Are you interested in Christmas Hauntings, Victorian Spectacle, and Dickens’ Christmas Books? You’re in luck! We’ve ungated a few Dickens Studies Annual articles to read and share on JSTOR through the end of December. Check them out
here!Journal of Africana Religions gains a new co-sponsor
The African Association for the Study of Religions (AASR) has become a co-sponsor of the Journal of Africana Religions! This new multifaceted partnership will advance the global study of Africana religions.
View the full announcement here. JOAR is also co-sponsored by the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD.)Control your subscription options |