Doing History in Public

Tag: literary history

  • Revisiting Kipling’s Kim

    Revisiting Kipling’s Kim

    By Jeremy Wikeley Over the summer I read Rudyard Kipling’s novel Kim for the first time. I enjoyed it a lot more than I was expecting to. Kim tells the story of an Irish orphan who, growing up in India, has a series of adventures, first as the protégé of an elderly Buddhist monk and…

  • The It-Narrative as Material Culture Methodology: Practical Applications for Historians

    The It-Narrative as Material Culture Methodology: Practical Applications for Historians

    By Kerry Love (@kerrymlove) A popular novel format in the eighteenth century was the ‘it-narrative,’ or ‘novel of circulation,’ whereby the story was told by an inanimate object, such as a coin, quill or a coach, or an animal such as a pet dog, in first person. Their treatment in literary studies has been covered…