The Greats have seared my mind. Pictured above is part of my core curriculum of style references.
I’m currently reading:
[on the topic of the eighteenth-century novel]
Crébillon, fils; Duclos; et al. Edited by Raymond Trousson. Romans libertins du dix-huitième siècle. Paris: Robert Laffont, 1993.
Delers, Olivier. The Other Rise of the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Fiction. Olivier Delors. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2015.
Edmonton, William F. Hindsight and Insight: Focalization in Four Eighteenth-Century French Novels. University Park, PA. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991
Israel, Jonathan. Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650–1750. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
McMurran, Mary Helen. The Spread of Novels: Translation and Prose Fiction in the Eighteenth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.
[on the topic of state-sponsored and lone-actor terrorism]
Laqueur, Walter, ed.. 2004. Voices of Terror: Manifestos, Writings and Manuals of Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Other Terrorists from around the World and throughout the Ages. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks
Putin, Vladimir. Fitzpatrick, Catherine, tr. First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia’s President. New York: Public Affairs, 2000.
