Bright things

Abstract In November 1839, a group of young women in Boston formed a conversation society “to answer the great questions” of special importance to women: “What are w...

In Chapter 2 the author proposed that by ‘grey’ in ‘The patch looks grey to you’ we mean two things—the property of being grey, and a certain way of looking (which are distinct thi...

When we claim that some things matter, we might mean only that these things matter to people. Suffering matters, for example, in the sense that people care about suffering. No one ...

The foregoing chapters trace a profound literary response to a redistribution of the perceptible, a socio-cultural turning away from the tangible experience of existence to forms o...

Investigating the representation of artefacts, objects and ‘things’ in a range of predominantly Western archaeological fiction from the late Victorian period to the modern day, thi...