Recent ucsbenglish_rw items

The Invention of a Public Machine for Revolutionary Emotion: the Boston Committee of Correspondence

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

In this essay I will explore how, during the build up to the American Revolution, a new communications technology and the expression of public sentiments became constitutively co-implicated.

Henry Fielding

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Henry Fielding(1707-1754) was playwright, journalist, reforming magistrate, and the inventor of the comic novel in English. Out of Fielding’s practice of literature and law there emerges the concept of society as a complex, interdependent totality.