By Danny Anderson First, you stare down creaking stairs that descend into a cold and humid darkness. Then the musty smell of decay moldering under layers of dust overwhelms the rest of your senses. As your eyes adjust, you make the chilling discovery: you are surrounded by ghosts. There’s a reason so many horror films…
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Historical Reflections on Denis Diderot’s The Nun and the Rise of Popular Novelistic Fiction
By Andrew Urie Widely recognized as one of the great eighteenth-century French philosophes, Denis Diderot (1713-1784) is today largely remembered for his co-creation of the Encyclopédie (1751-1766) with Jean le Rond d’Alembert (1717-1783). Fewer people, however, now remember Diderot’s novella The Nun, which was largely composed throughout 1760. Today regarded as a minor literary classic, the…
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