Learning from Weirdos
Gayle Rogers reviews Jonathan P. Eburne's history of unorthodox ideas.
Gayle Rogers is professor and associate chair of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature (Columbia, 2016), Modernism and the New Spain (Oxford, 2012), and co-author, with Sean Latham, of Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). He is currently working on a history of the concept of speculation from the medieval era to the present.
Gayle Rogers reviews Jonathan P. Eburne's history of unorthodox ideas.
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