Reviews of PPP
1. Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, Renaissance Quarterly, 67.1 (Spring 2014), pp. 306-307. Dr. van Dijkhuizen is a lecturer and post-doctoral researcher at Leiden University. He is the author of Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (D. S. Brewer, 2012). Soundbite: a thoroughly researched and highly original addition to the growing scholarly […]
Responding to criticism
To what extent should one respond to criticism of one’s work? Should one respond to it at all? Perhaps one should take a lofty attitude and simply let the critics make of one’s work what they will. Or perhaps one owes it to oneself and to scholarship to clarify things and explain oneself. I accept, […]
Review
Check out Jan Frans van Dijkhuisen’s review of Pain, Pleasure and Perversity here: You’ll need a JSTOR log-in to read the whole thing, but if anyone without one is particularly keen to read it, just e-mail me and I may be able to sort you out! Anyway, here’s the first paragraph, just to give you […]
Discourses of Suffering reviewed on Amazon
BLOG HOME Perversely pleasurable history of pain Yamamoto-Wilson’s scholarly and fascinating work deals with that most troubling and elusive of subjects: pain, and the ways that human beings have coped with it, thought about it, and indeed, inflicted it on others, over successive centuries. Because although – as the subtitle indicates – this study’s main […]