Calhoun’s unnamed heroine is a literary powerhouse bursting at the seams. Household breadwinner for her husband, Paul, and ...

Concord, Massachusetts, is historic for many reasons. The setting of the famous Battle of Lexington and Concord that ...

is assistant professor of philosophy at California Polytechnic State University.

As part of Brown 2026, faculty are developing new courses in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ ...

like the many she sifted through when writing about the Transcendentalists, and toward objects. This, the theory goes, helps to resurrect the narratives of people who were illiterate or not ...

Transcendentalists, like Emerson and Thoreau, argued that people should turn to nature for a sense of the divinity underlying all life and for a better awareness of their own powers and limitations.

ART21: Can you say a little more about the sublime? KELLEY: Well, like I said, I think that kind of discussion of the sublime is a nineteenth-century metaphysical discussion, like Edmund Burke or the ...