James Armstrong, Playwright

Sunday was the last day of the Modern Language Association's annual convention, held this year in Philadelphia. I delivered a paper on L...

Three books, all with the same title, Romanticism , deal with the same topic. Indeed, all employ the same key word in discussing the art and...

As I was reading Madame de Staël’s Germany , I was struck by the criticism she doled out against the author of the French adaptation of Frie...

Anne Louise Germaine Necker was an odd fish. Her parents were Swiss Protestants who settled in Paris in the mid-eighteenth century. The year...