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The author of this blog is Trevor Pateman. I have purchased all the books reviewed here except a very few noted as sent to me. My own books are cheapest at blackwells.co.uk and are usually on Amazon. I can be found at academia.edu but do not have an X account and never used Twitter; that is another Trevor Pateman.

Wednesday, 28 October 2020

Review: Richard Scholar, Émigrés. French Words That Turned English

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  I saw this book advertised and bought it for two very local and immediate reasons. I had been writing about emigration and exile and f...
Sunday, 6 September 2020

Reclaim Her Name? George Eliot and Middlemarch

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  I had been meaning to re-read Middlemarch and promoted it to the top of the waiting list after reading that a well-known alcoholic drinks ...
Tuesday, 11 August 2020

Publishing on Commission, Vanity Publishing, Self-Publishing

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  The early logical and mathematical work of Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein was made possible by Gottlob Frege (1848 - 1925) who...

The Geography of My Reading - Eight Year Survey

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  I didn’t travel very much, even before lockdown,   and I’m a bit uncomfortable about that, especially since there is an international ai...

Changing Places

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  Collectors enjoy great freedom. Drift into collecting teapots and it’s up to you whether to focus on a country or period, or instead go ...

Readers Lurk in Every Writer's Mind

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Readers lurk in every writer’s mind. Some are wished-for readers who will fully appreciate what the writer is about. Some are stern critics,...
Tuesday, 5 May 2020

Review: Elisabeth Geblesco, Un Amour de Transfert

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When Jacques Lacan died   in 1981, a critical commentary in Le Monde   accused   him of perverting psychoanalytic practice, using...
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