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“... that she was less invested in her subjects, and therefore less likely to break ‘the containment field of the detective genre’ by making ideological points that jar on modern sensibilities, attracting a ‘readerly dissent’. This relies on a particular experience of reading, where the spell cast by the narrative keeps you from thinking about anything ...”

“... Anna Julia Cooper​ ’s collection of essays, A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South, published in 1892, identified the conflict over race as the central dilemma of her time, eleven years before W.E.B. Du Bois wrote that ‘the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the colour line.’ Cooper argued that America’s domestic racial formation was intimately linked with international colonialism and that the exploitation and oppression experienced by Asian, Black and Indigenous peoples in the US were an integral part of the imperialist ideology of racial hierarchies ...”

“... And if you’re not going to train yourself in a money-making technique you could choose no better field.’ For students feeling deviant in the face of national conformity, the study of other cultures seemed to yield clues to American dissatisfactions. For second-generation immigrants, it suggested the rituals and folkways of the old country were of universal ...”

“... survey of the trend in the journal Anthropoetics in 1997, Douglas Collins wrote that back in 1984 Julia Kristeva had noted that ‘we’re in the middle of a regression which is present in the form of a return to the religious … a rehabilitation of spiritualism.’ Spinozism was part of this: ‘the latest example of French totalism, a product of the ...”

“... where or to whom you belong? ‘What her mother felt,’ Woolf writes of the relationship between Julia Stephen and Stella, ‘passed almost instantly through Stella’s mind’ (she came rushing home from a holiday having had a premonition of her mother’s imminent death). Woolf describes herself as living so wholly in her mother’s atmosphere ‘that one ...”

“... was just a fling. But her unconscious leads her out of her comfort zone back into Witold’s force field. Once in possession of his poems, her task to forget him, to bury him for good, becomes impossible. She cannot bring herself to burn the poems, but they seem to accuse her, to undermine her effort at trivialising her experience with him. Her fear is ...”

“... in both the US and Europe, the books and essays that charted its course – which give the field and its students a sense of what matters – have treated work on women’s ideas as unworthy of comment. This is not a complaint consigned to the past. In 2016, Richard Whatmore, a professor of modern history at St Andrews, published a book called What Is ...”

“... Revolution made flesh. ‘He had an incalculable enchantment that came completely naturally,’ Julia Costenla, an Argentine journalist told Jon Lee Anderson when he was researching his biography of Guevara. ‘If he entered a room, everything began revolving around him.’That night he found a seat in a corner of the embassy gardens and everyone gathered ...”

“... to re-shape the law to a design proposed by the executive when the legislature has acted in the field and has not made law to that design. In the Pentagon Papers case, for example, the United States Government asked the Supreme Court to do what Congress had declined to do. Successive Administrations had proposed legislation to declare certain kinds of ...”

“... was much bigger than they knew.One of the best outcomes is that history is now far more openly a field of political contestation, an arena. Pasts which were suppressed and denied have been laid open, much less by historians than by those for whom history is immanent in the present. When the Government reneged on land rights – to avoid clashes with state ...”

“... spared; Tailors ride down and measure ’em by the yard. Fair trees, those comely foretops of the field, Are cut to maintain head-tires – much untold. All thrives but Chastity – she lies a-cold. Shakespeare never knew London with the intimacy that informs Middleton’s piercing and obsessive gaze; yet in a strange way this made the younger man, for all ...”

“... are not as different as you might think from puns and rhymes, which is how Julia Kristeva was able victoriously to divine that a patient who was preoccupied with Klaus Barbie’s television trial was in fact anxious about motherhood: tortionnaires > torso > io > naître/pas naître. The most illustrious Greek seer in the historical ...”

“... difficulty,’ James says, ‘would be to make and to keep her so limited consciousness the very field of my picture . . . the one presented register of the whole complexity would be the play of the child’s confused and obscure notation of it.’ Maisie cannot be expected to possess a full understanding of the doings of her divorced parents (‘the ...”

“... the poetry reviewed in the Guardian – and one could go on belabouring people writing in that field. But outside it was another area where poetry had formed an alliance with pop music and the whole business of the 1960s scene, which had nothing to do with poetry. However, some spark at Penguin Books filled an anthology with these people and pretended that ...”