Leah price what we talk about7/4/2023 But in What We Talk About When We Talk About Books, she invites us to share her other hat, that of the “book historian.” That scholar turns to the book as a material object. While wearing her “literary critic” hat, Leah Price can do all those things: parse language, scan meter, and theorize genre. They analyze Eliot’s tidal imagery, demonstrate how Tennyson mourns through cyclic rhyme, and ponder why Smollett’s blend of realism and romance lost favor in the literary canon. These are not the things English academics usually talk about when they talk about books. IN THE PAST MONTH, I’ve spilled saag paneer on a critical study of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss admired prior annotations in a secondhand copy of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam and been tricked, by a false cover, into buying a bootleg copy of Tobias Smollett’s The Adventures of Roderick Random.
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