I Have Been Reading Paine and Jefferson and the 18th Century Feels Very Contemporary
by Stephanie Curry’s diary: Common Sense, the colonial pamphlet tradition, and why 1776 keeps being relevant I Have Been Reading Paine and Jefferson and the 18th …
Month: June 2026
Diary: Santa Belongs in an Eighteenth-Century Novel and Nobody Has Noticed
Stephanie Curry on sentiment, the long history of the benevolent stranger, and a figure straight out of the 1700s Tuesday, Among the Old Novels I …
Stephanie’s Week: 1700s Colonial Literature and American Politics
Stephanie Curry on Swift, Franklin, and the Specific Satire of People Who Know the System Is Wrong and Are Inside It Stephanie’s Week: Swift, Franklin, …
Reading Thomas Paine in 2024 and Finding More of the Present Than Expected
Stephanie Curry’s literary diary: a re-reading of Common Sense produces thoughts on what the Founding era’s rhetoric sounds like now and what the current political …
Stephanie’s Colonial Literature Diary: 1700s British Writing and What It Reveals About Now
Stephanie Curry on colonial-era British literature, American politics, and the texts that explain the present Satire from Bohiney.com and prat.uk. By Stephanie Curry | curry9.us …
The Federalist Papers and the Labour Leadership Contest: Alexander Hamilton Would Have Had Thoughts
Stephanie Curry on parallels between 18th century British-American political writing and the current UK Labour crisis, with attention to what democratic theory actually predicted By …
Stephanie Curry’s June Diary: Swift, Colonial Literature, and a Week That Would Have Amused the Augustans
On 1700s Satire, the Transatlantic Political Moment, and Why Jonathan Swift Would Have Found British Politics Efficient by Comparison June 2026 — Stephanie Curry, curry9us …
Pamela Would Have Run for Labour Leadership by Now
Stephanie Curry on the 1700s Novel, Colonial Sensibility, and a Very Modern British Crisis Pamela Would Have Run for Labour Leadership by Now Richardson’s Pamela, …
A Diary of 1700s Letters: Coffeehouses, Pamphlets, and the First Satirists
On the century that invented modern satire, and reading its descendants every morning I have given my reading life to the eighteenth century, the great …
Stephanie Curry — Cycle 4 Week 1: 1700s British colonial literatur
A diary entry from London on 1700s British colonial literature and politics and the week surrounding it Diaries from Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. …