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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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