There was a period when ABBA was decidedly seen as cringe, but they prevailed in the end. I agree we’ll have to wait and see if history repeats for Coldplay… 23 years since “Clocks,” only little more than a quarter century to go! 😁

Wait, this study seems not to have been peer-reviewed, no?

Plus AI can only access digitalized sources, and mountains of documentation aren’t digitized!

I can’t decide if it’s ludicrous or horrifying.

Admittedly, it’s not culinary rocket surgery, but I’m under the weather at the moment and was grateful for the assist. 😊

Good news for Coldplay is that, historically speaking, appreciation for ABBA changed tremendously with the success of “Mamma Mia,” so apparently Coldplay only needs a blockbuster Broadway musical/movie to regain fully their pop culture dignity!
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Would love to see the whole thing! 🤩

Bringing to light the missing links between the ancien régime and modernity, The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France is an ambitious account of a remarkable politico-literary moment and its aftermath.”

& others were transformed into new tales with ongoing appeal.

She uncovers a 1790 story of an automaton-builder named Frankénsteïn, links Baum to the suffrage campaign going back to 1789, and discovers a royalist anthem’s power to undo Balzac’s Père Goriot. [cont.]

Deploying political history, archival research & textual analysis with 👁️-opening results, Douthwaite focuses on 5 major events btween 1789 & 1794—1st in newspapers, then in fiction—& shows how the symbolic stories generated by Louis XVI, Robespierre, the market women who stormed Versailles… [cont.]

can be found in novels by the likes of Mary Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, & L. Frank Baum. [cont.]

In this book, Julia V. Douthwaite explores how the works w/in this enormous corpus announced the new shapes of literature to come & reveals that vestiges of these stories… [cont.]