As of August 21, 2023, the entry for the sixteenth century scholar (and namesake of a famous character in Eliot's Middlemarch) Isaac Casaubon does not yet mention—in the "Literary Appearances" section—that he is discussed at length in Nicholson Baker's novel Room Temperature.
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As of August 21, 2023, the entry for the sixteenth century scholar (and namesake of a famous character in Eliot's Middlemarch ) Isaac Ca...
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The entry on the 1993 episode of The Simpsons (penned by that great lover of old-times Americana John Swartzwelder) "Krusty Gets Kancel...
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The article on the John Greenleaf Whittier poem " The Barefoot Boy " does not yet mention that the poem is referenced by Mr. Burns...
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As of November 19, 2018, the entry for Willa Cather's 1923 novel One of Ours mentions that Hemingway once deprecated the realism of its...