International Society for Intellectual History
International Society for Intellectual History "The ISIH was created in 1994 to promote the study and teaching of intellectual history in all its forms and to foster communication and interaction among the global community of scholars in the field." Among other projects, it is developing a database of twentieth-century authors whose work has shaped…
Reviews of Pain, Pleasure and Perversity
1. Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, Renaissance Quarterly, 67.1 (Spring 2014), pp. 306-307. Dr. van Dijkhuizen is a lecturer and post-doctoral researcher at Leiden University. He is the author of Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (D. S. Brewer, 2012). Soundbite: a thoroughly researched and highly original addition to the g…
Responding to criticism
To what extent should one respond to criticism of one’s work? Should one respond to it at all? Perhaps one should take a lofty attitude and simply let the critics make of one’s work what they will. Or perhaps one owes it to oneself and to scholarship to clarify things and explain oneself. I accept,…
Review of Pain. Pleasure and Perversity
Check out Jan Frans van Dijkhuisen's review of Pain, Pleasure and Perversity here: You'll need a JSTOR log-in to read the whole thing, but if anyone without one is particularly keen to read it, just e-mail me and I may be able to sort you out! Anyway, here's the first paragraph, just to give you…
Another review on Amazon
REVIEW: "Penance and Repentance" by Eamonn Vincent…
Discourses of Suffering reviewed on Amazon
REVIEW: "Breaking new ground in history of sexuality" by Joseph O'Leary.…