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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/10/17/the-fact-man-daniel-defoe/ The Fact Man | Clare Bucknell | The New York Review of Books At the heart of Daniel Defoe’s fictional world is a feeling for change, of the mutability and shiftiness of modern life and the people who thrive in it. new york reviewclare bucknellfactmanbooks https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/charlatans-bores-on-pedantry-visser/?printpage=true Charlatans & Bores | Clare Bucknell | The New York Review of Books The profile of the pedant has changed surprisingly across time periods and cultures, but what’s constant is that nobody wants to be called one. new york reviewclare bucknellcharlatansboresbooks https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/11/06/a-brief-literary-emancipation-literary-criticism-gender-early-modern-england/ A Brief Literary Emancipation | Clare Bucknell | The New York Review of Books Early modern female writers, who were denied the sort of authority usually needed to write literary criticism, were also freed from its constraints. new york reviewclare bucknellbriefliteraryemancipation https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/05/14/charlatans-bores-on-pedantry-visser/ Charlatans & Bores | Clare Bucknell | The New York Review of Books The profile of the pedant has changed surprisingly across time periods and cultures, but what’s constant is that nobody wants to be called one. new york reviewclare bucknellcharlatansboresbooks https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/clare-bucknell/ Clare Bucknell | The New York Review of Books Clare Bucknell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her most recent book is The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture. new york reviewclare bucknellbooks https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/03/27/studies-for-his-mind-john-soane-cabinet-of-curiosities/ Studies for His Mind | Clare Bucknell | The New York Review of Books Mar 6, 2025 - In 1877 the German classicist Adolf Michaelis had almost completed the research for his catalog of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture held in British new york reviewclare bucknellstudiesmindbooks