by Peter Stromberg on March 5, 2010
I’m not sure what “modern” means. I’m not sure anyone knows what it means, because the term is so broad that it gets used in a lot of different ways. But that is not to say that the term is meaningless. There are some consistencies in the way the word is used. [click to continue…]
by Peter Stromberg on February 22, 2010
Photo provided by Tara Hunt
The novelist Virginia Woolf once said, “on or about December 1910, human character changed.” (see Jackson Lears). She was kidding about the specificity of the date but in earnest about the change. [click to continue…]