The Genre of Sage-Writing (or Secular Prophecy)
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General
- Introduction
- Ruskin as Victorian Sage: The Example of "Traffic"
- Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1986. Complete text
The Sage's Techniques
- Invented Grotesques
- Reading the Fire Writing on the Wall
- Victorian Sages and the Homiletic Tradition
- Discovered Grotesques (1): The Amphibious Pope
- Discovered Grotesques (2): The Seven-Foot Hat
- The Meaning of the World in the Meaning of a Word: Definitions from Carlyle to Suleri
Sages and their Descendents and Parodists
Last modified 11 March 2007