Ben Parker
baggymonster.bsky.social
Ben Parker
@baggymonster.bsky.social
ask me about the Schlieffen Plan
become unshelveable
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Will someone please let us know the exact Goldilocks magic dollar amount that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social would have to make before Cuomo and Adams will agree to let us have socialism?
August 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I reviewed @dannybwright.bsky.social “Grounds of the Novel” @stanfordpress.bsky.social for Genre. I admire the ambition and range of inquiry but I have grave doubts about the scholarship and argument. Hopefully a productive debate for researchers in novel theory!
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The Grounds of the Novel | Genre | Duke University Press
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June 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
My essay on “Adam Bede,” Bible interpretation, and tragedy is out in rhe new issue of ELH

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Project MUSE - Interpretation as Ethical Life: From Scriptural Hermeneutics to Tragic Responsibility in Adam Bede
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April 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
My book exists! Thanks to @cornellupress.bsky.social for all work in publishing and @annakornbluh.bsky.social for perceptive blurb
February 22, 2024 at 7:15 PM
“Taylor Swift, to me, is at the level of the toilet bowl. By which I mean that she should by all means be studied, with the greatest rigor, as an epochal achievement of modernity.”
Opinion | About That Taylor Swift Class at Harvard …
Should college courses really be resorting to clickbait?
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January 9, 2024 at 2:50 AM
I wrote about Raymond Williams and his theory of the English novel
Knowable | Victorian Literature and Culture | Cambridge Core
Knowable - Volume 51 Issue 3
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October 12, 2023 at 1:12 PM
Essay on religious hermeneutics in “Adam Bede” coming out next year in ELH, started working on this in 2019
October 6, 2023 at 3:51 PM