In the early 19th century, the European world had just defeated an imperialist tyrant, Napoleon Bonaparte, only to find the continent’s recently conquered monarchs quickly back in force. Intent on ...

Brooding, sensual, violent, intelligent, and single-minded. Edward Cullen. Han Solo. Killmonger. Lestat. What do all these characters have in common besides being heartthrobs? They share a common ...

HE great men of the past whose names have given an adjective to the language are by that very fact most vulnerable to the reductive treatment. Everybody knows what "Machiavellian" means, and ...

In human affairs, things exist before they are formally named and continue to thrive even when people don’t know or forget the name. Take this type of literary character, who continues to hold a ...

The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, No. 1 (Jan., 2007), pp. 26-39 (14 pages) Although Austen and Byron are often considered to be irreconcilable opposites, in this article I argue that Austen ...

My week of hell is over! And I bet yours is as well! In fact, I bet you are not even on campus anymore. Good thing the YDN content is always available online! Now when I say “hell week” I mean ...

It’s time to talk about Deacon. Gallant Deacon, sensitive Deacon, mournful Deacon, the show’s very own Deacon ex machina. The pulchritudinous guitar player has lately become the achy heart of ...

SPARKENBROKE — Charles Morgan —Macmillan ($2.75). When Charles Morgan wrote The Fountain (1932) it was variously hailed as a big book, a pretentious imposture, a masterpiece, a phony. Sparkenbroke ...