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Michael Falk

Michael Falk is a writer and scholar from the Blue Mountains. He holds a PhD in English and Digital Humanities from the University of Kent. These days, most of his research is in text analysis, data visualisation, and colonial Romanticism. In the daytime he is a project manager. He blogs about birds, books, and the Blue Mountains at https://www.michaelfalk.com.au/

Michael Falk reviews 'What the Victorians made of Romanticism: Material artifacts, cultural practices, and reception history' by Tom Mole

May 2018, no. 401 03 April 2018
A quiet revolution is underway in academic literary criticism. Three movements are at the vanguard: ecocriticism, digital humanities, and material culture. At first, they might seem distinct. Ecocritics see literature as a response to the environment. Digital humanists see literature as a repository of machine-readable data. Scholars of material culture see literature as a series of objects – bo ... (read more)