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“... or impressive role. In an interesting new book, Printing Technology, Letters and Samuel Johnson, Alvin Kernan compares two treatments, familiar to specialists, of the scene in the King’s Library where, according to Boswell’s Life, George III went up to Johnson and, after hearing his opinions on various matters, pressed him to write ‘the literary ...”

“... In Alvin Kernan’s book The Death of Literature there is an account of the Lady Chatterley trial. It sports a pointless and omni-directed superciliousness so relentlessly predictable that if, for example, Rebecca West is cited making a perfectly tenable statement you can rely on being told that she was displaying ‘qualities that must have once made H ...”

“... theory in ways that align her with the conservative agenda of Roger Kimbal, Dinesh D’Souza, and Alvin Kernan, she also advocates many practices which challenge the political correctness of the Right, including prostitution, abortion, homosexuality and pornography. Nonetheless, despite her libertarian views, Paglia’s mind, as reflected in her ...”