This article brings ecocritical and historical approaches together with literary analysis to provide the first in-depth of chocolate in French novels. It argues that is a uniquely hybrid, indeterminate substance both literal figurative terms it enables writers ask questions about human nature our status as civilized, textual beings. Examining examples from range writers—Stendhal, Huysmans, Vern...

Far from being a simple reflection of reality, archives are constructed windows into personal and collective processes. They at once express and are instruments of prevailing relations of power. Verne Harris makes these arguments through an account of archives and archivists in the context of South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy. The account is deliberately shaped around three ...

The journal Science gained national attention in March 2015 with a news feature on the winner of the National Eye Institute’s Audacious Goal Initiative competition. The National Eye Institute’s winning choice was “to regenerate neurons and neural connections in the eye and visual system.” The article, entitled “Second Sight: Eye Transplants Are Science Fiction. A Team of Researchers Wants to Ch...