You might think that a museum show about an iconoclastic Victorian author would, in these postelection weeks, constitute a kind of escapism. Not so when that author is Charlotte Brontë. An ...
Anna E. Clark
Anna E. Clark is an assistant professor of English at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, where she researches and teaches courses on Victorian literature and the history of the novel. Her essays and reviews have recently appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, ELH, and the Chicago Tribune. 
The Novel in the Age of Digital Diversion
In The End of Absence, an alternately shrewd and sentimental account of Internet-age distraction, author Michael Harris offers an autobiographical parable: once a lonely pre-tech teenager obsessed ...
A Godlike Science
Is there something missing from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein? One would think that an author’s say over her work’s substance would be final. Yet the novel’s prolific adaptations seem obsessed with ...