Interesting article about many deservedly forgotten pieces of literature. I read a number for my MA history dissertation, and they were pretty much uniformly dreadful. William Le Queux in particular - overwrought, sensationalist, chauvinistic dreck.
Happy to have this new little essay on JSTOR Daily, "The Evolution of Britain’s Invasion Fiction." Please check it out and share it or pass it on if you find it interesting! Let's make Lieutenant-Colonel George Chesney’s "The Battle of Dorking," a viral sensation of 1871, trend again...
Some timely *Obsession*-themed humor from the Onion:
PETA Billboard Falsely Assumes Man Wouldn’t Eat His Cat
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Meta: “Winning schools is the way to win with teens,” 2018;
Google, 2020: “investing in schools helps onboard kids into Google’s ecosystem;”
In 2015, YouTube noted that watch time went up on weekends & that “increasing usage in schools M-F could decrease this gap!”
Happy to have this new little essay on JSTOR Daily, "The Evolution of Britain’s Invasion Fiction." Please check it out and share it or pass it on if you find it interesting! Let's make Lieutenant-Colonel George Chesney’s "The Battle of Dorking," a viral sensation of 1871, trend again...
“The effort to destroy Black political power in the South is among the greatest betrayals of Black Americans, and those who have voted alongside them, by the federal government in living memory”
“If I cannot have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan,” T.J Clark, Farewell to an Idea
Thanks to @saraivry.bsky.social who commissioned it!
