Metaphor and Criticism BSA Prize Essay, 2010

Lord Memorial Prize Essay

. Although it may well be unreliable and illogical, is a well-known habit to form firm, lasting, and definite first impressions. That they are often ^accurate and always superficial is to be admitted, but nevertheless they frequently form the basis of our later estimations and prejudice our views for good or evil, the more so when the situation is a new one to us, or one whose arrival we have b...

Lord Memorial Prize Essay

Maccabaean Prize Essay, 1968

Medical History William Bynum Essay Prize

Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism: Alan Rauch (essay date 1995)

New perspectives on Frankenstein are hard to come by. Recent scholarship has provided a wide variety of insights into the novel, making it a central text in feminist studies, the history of the novel, psychoanalytical criticism, and, of course, the impact of science on the novel.2 For reasons that aren't entirely clear, however, the issue of the nature of knowledge—as a cultural artifact—has no...