Arden Hegele is a lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and a Medical Humanities Fellow at Columbia University in New York. Her book in progress, “Romantic Autopsy: Literary Form and Medical Reading,” is focused on 19th-century literature and the medical humanities. She is the cofounder and coeditor of Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal.
Arden Hegele
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What If Keats Had Lived?
What if John Keats—the brilliant Romantic poet, whose revolutionary lyrics blended classical myth and sensuous imagery—hadn’t died at age 25? The Warm South, a new novel by Paul Kerschen, reimagines …
Loving Pickwick
The amorphous literary period that directly preceded Queen Victoria’s ascension to the English throne in 1837 is notorious for true crimes of book history, from the suspicious disappearance of the middle chapters of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein manuscript to the regrettable posthumous burning of Lord Byron’s handwritten Memoirs. But these controversies have nothing on the mysterious […]
