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Modern Reading in Historical Context: From Gutenberg to Naked Women

Did the publication of Goethe’s epistolary novel, ‘The Sorrows of...

Many writers, from Sophocles to Freud, have seen profound significance...

A number of infectious diseases cause blindness. After decades of...

This lecture will explore the varying ways in which people...

Beginning with Walter Hussey at St Matthew's, Northampton, in the...

The first successful solid organ transplant was the cornea in...

What do we mean by ‘reading for pleasure’? Why has...

In 1863 Charles Baudelaire, wrote about the ‘Painter of Modern...

Deliberately blinding opponents has always been part of warfare. Sophisticated...

In recent years, the diary of the private citizen has...