THE Scholarly Web - 9 May 2013
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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations by Mary Beard
Barbara Graziosi on a renowned reviewer’s disciplinary skirmishes
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Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy? The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer by Antony Lentin
Stephen Halliday on a forgotten tragedy of the First World War
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Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism by Hilary M. Schor
Shelley King on asking questions, realist fiction and female subjectivity in Victorian novels
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Boy 30529: A Memoir by Felix Weinberg
Robert Eaglestone on the experiences of a Holocaust survivor and how he rebuilt his life afterwards
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The Politics of Exile by Elizabeth Dauphinee
Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik on a study of the process of researching the Bosnian wars
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The Politics of Exile by Elizabeth Dauphinee
The Politics of Exile reads like a novel, but it is an academic work that asks important questions about the research process and, specifically, researching wars such as the one that took place in...
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Boy 30529: A Memoir by Felix Weinberg
Presumably, many people who become leading physicists - for example, Felix Weinberg, who was professor of combustion physics and a fellow of the Royal Society - display an early curiosity about the...
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Socratic sisterhood
Shelley King is dazzled by a recasting of 19th-century classics as accounts of female agency
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Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World Without Darwin by Peter J. Bowler
What would the world look like if a young Cambridge dropout named Charles had fallen overboard from a Royal Navy survey vessel sometime in the 1830s? If the man in question was the one who would go...
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Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy? The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer by Antony Lentin
Sir Edgar Speyer (1862-1932) was born in New York of German Jewish descent, worked in Germany in the family banking business and came to England at the age of 24, where he settled into a successful...
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Right-hooked on Classics
Classical confrontations are personal, not just business, argues Barbara Graziosi
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Age cannot wither her
Shahidha Bari traces the development, and late flowering, of a paradoxically atavistic yet visionary Lebanese artist
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Campus round-up
Do as the vervets doResearchers have observed a rare example of “cultural transmission” among wild monkeys. Working with two groups of vervets in South Africa, scientists from the University of St...