Robert Gross

Jan 16, 2024 | commonplace.online | Edward Gray |Joshua Greenberg |Robert Gross |Jerry Kuntz

* Editor’s note: This past December, shortly after completing this article, Edward Gray tragically and suddenly passed away. In addition to his award-winning teaching and scholarship, Ed was a central figure here at Commonplace. He served as our editor from 2005 to 2009 as well as the inaugural review editor from 2000 to 2004. Please read this obituary highlighting a bit of his full life.

Jan 2, 2024 | commonplace.online | Joshua Greenberg |Edward Gray |Robert Gross |Jerry Kuntz

It is that time of year again when I point you to Leon Jackson’s excellent article on the newspaper carrier’s New Year’s address and give you an update on what is going on at Commonplace while hitting you up for contributions (no money is necessary, just submissions).

Oct 27, 2023 | commonplace.online | Zachary Turpin |Robert Gross |Christian Fritz |C. J. Martin

. . . at first it seems incredible . . . that such-and-such a thing can be discovered, but after it has been discovered, it again seems incredible that it couldelude men for so long. – Francis Bacon, The New Organon (1620)To students new to the study of nineteenth-century American literature, it may seem that the field has been so thoroughly studied and catalogued that there can be very little left to discover about it. This could hardly be further from the truth.