New Common-place Issue 16.3

Nathan Jérémie-Brink Discussion

Dear all,

Common-place’s new issue asks us to rethink common-sense histories as our authors overturn old theories and question established chronologies. Charlotte Gordon asks why we adhere to the Victorian portrait of Anne Bradstreet as a pious, retiring woman, uninvolved in promoting her own work, when there is substantial evidence to the contrary.  Hsuan Hsu’s article on Mark Twain’s fascination with the walking dead reminds us that our current zombie obsession is nothing new. Vikings, Darcy Fryer argues, deserve a much bigger role in early American scholarship and teaching.  An interdisciplinary roundtable explores Thomas Piketty’s Capital to meditate upon how eighteenth-century novels can help to illuminate the economic forces that shape our twenty-first century world. Keep reading to learn about Puritan communion artifacts, nineteenth-century Americans love of gondolas, and the surprising pleasures of religious dime novels. All this and more in issue 16.3 of Common-place!

www.common-place.org is produced by the American Antiquarian Society.

Editors, Anna Mae Duane and Walt Woodward, University of Connecticut

Published by a partnership of the American Antiquarian Society and the University of Connecticut

 
Best,
 
Nathan Jérémie-Brink
PhD Candidate, History, Loyola University Chicago
New Media Editor, Common-place Journal, common-place.org