Utopian Fervor, The Yumminess of Paint, and More

“Utopian fervor can spread through the social order like wildfire,” says Robert Darnton.

“Utopian fervor can spread through the social order like wildfire,” says Robert Darnton. “Something similar took place in the French Revolution”  ... more »

The Dickens style. Trollope called it “jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules.” But rule-breaking was essential to Dickens’s art  ... more »

In an era obsessed with the poli…