Julie Crawford is a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Marvelous Protestantism (2005) and Mediatrix: Women, Politics, and Literary Production in Early Modern England (2014). She is currently working on a book about the 17th-century writer Margaret Cavendish.
Julie Crawford
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Caravaggio’s Hair
Human hair, as Álvaro Enrigue points out in Sudden Death, is the only part of the human body that does not rot. It accordingly plays a starring role in the novel, which is as interested in the persistence of human bodies as in their destruction. The tennis ball fiercely batted between the Spanish poet Francisco […]
The North Is the Dark Place
“The North is the dark place.” The first words of The Daylight Gate will not be surprising to readers familiar with Jeanette Winterson’s gothic upbringing in the north of England (200 Water Street, Accrington, Lancashire, to be precise). In both her brilliant debut novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), and her recent memoir, […]
