Micro, Personal Essays
Below are some micro essays I wrote last winter, which I might expand into longer pieces: On Being: In a Pokhara, Nepal Hotel Room It...
Birtherism and the Scholarly Debate over Equiano
How disarming it was in reading the essay "Olaudah Equiano, Written by Himself," to learn that in the 217 years between the time Equiano (self-published)...
Robinson Crusoe: English Narcissus?
“Expanding Empires, Expanding Selves: Colonialism, the Novel, and Robinson Crusoe” by Brett McInelly suggests it will detail the relationship between the expanding notion of the...
Romantic Reading in/at Northanger Abbey
While Henry Tilney instructs the heroine of Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland, to read the world--and histories--and to erect boundaries as real as the walls of an...
The 18th Century Marriage Market as per Evelina’s Lord Orville and Sir Clement Willoughby
The dialogue between Lord Orville and Sir Clement Willoughby in volume 3, letter 14, Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars, of Evelina: Or the History...