David Trotter

David Trotter is emeritus professor of literature at Cambridge. His most recent book is Literature in the First Media Age.

In the LRB Archive:

• Diary: Bearness · 7 November 2019

• Making doorbells ring: Pushing Buttons · 22 November 2018

  • Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic and the Politics of Pushing by Rachel Plotnick

• A Cine-Fist to the Solar Plexus: Eisenstein · 2 August 2018

  • Beyond the Stars, Vol.1: The Boy from Riga by Sergei Eisenstein, translated by William Powell
  • On the Detective Story by Sergei Eisenstein, translated by Alan Upchurch
  • On Disney by Sergei Eisenstein, translated by Alan Upchurch
  • The Short-Fiction Scenario by Sergei Eisenstein, translated by Alan Upchurch
  • Movement, Action, Image, Montage: Sergei Eisenstein and the Cinema in Crisis by Luka Arsenjuk

• I say, damn it, where are the beds?: Orwell’s Nose and Prose · 16 February 2017

  • Orwell’s Nose: A Pathological Biography by John Sutherland
  • Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism by Alex Woloch

• Hiatus at 4 a.m.: What scared Hitchcock? · 4 June 2015

  • Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
  • Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much by Michael Wood
  • Hitchcock à la carte by Jan Olsson
  • Hitchcock on Hitchcock: Selected Writings and Interviews, Vol. II edited by Sidney Gottlieb

• ‘His eyes were literally on fire’: Fu Manchu · 5 March 2015

  • The Yellow Peril: Dr Fu Manchu & the Rise of Chinaphobia by Christopher Frayling

• In the Soup: Air Raid Panic · 9 October 2014

  • The Next War in the Air: Britain’s Fear of the Bomber, 1908-41 by Brett Holman

• Messages from the 29th Floor: Lifts · 3 July 2014

  • Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator by Andreas Bernard, translated by David Dollenmayer

• Lady Chatterley’s Sneakers · 30 August 2012

• Savage Rush: The Tube · 21 October 2010

  • Underground Writing: The London Tube from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf by David Welsh

• The Person in the Phone Booth: Phone Booths · 28 January 2010

• Into the Future: The Novel · 22 March 2007

  • The Novel: Vol. I: History, Geography and Culture edited by Franco Moretti
  • The Novel: Vol. II: Forms and Themes edited by Franco Moretti

• Saved by the Ant’s Fore-Foot: Pound’s Martyrology · 7 July 2005

  • The Pisan Cantos by Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth
  • Poems and Translations by Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth

• All of a Tremble: Kafka at the pictures · 4 March 2004

  • Kafka Goes to the Movies by Hanns Zischler, translated by Susan Gillespie

• McTeague’s Tooth: Good Fetishism · 20 November 2003

  • A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature by Bill Brown

• Platz Angst: Agoraphobia · 24 July 2003

  • Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia by Paul Carter

• Apoplectic Gristle: Wyndham Lewis · 25 January 2001

  • Some Sort of Genius: A Life of Wyndham Lewis by Paul O'Keeffe
  • Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer by Paul Edwards

• Lemon and Pink: The Sorrows of Young Ford · 1 June 2000

  • Return to Yesterday by Ford Madox Ford, edited by Bill Hutchings
  • War Prose by Ford Madox Ford, edited by Max Saunders

• Will to Literature: Modernism plc · 13 May 1999

  • Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture by Lawrence Rainey
  • Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study by Tim Armstrong
  • Body Ascendant: Modernism and the Physical Imperative by Harold Segel
  • Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production by Douglas Mao

• Internal Combustion · 6 June 1996

  • The Letters of Rudyard Kipling. Vol. III: 1900-1910 edited by Thomas Pinney

• Bodily Waste · 2 November 1995

  • The Spectacular Body: Science, Method and Meaning in the Work of Degas by Anthea Callen

• Saved for Jazz · 5 October 1995

  • Modernist Quartet by Frank Lentricchia

• Costume Codes · 12 January 1995

  • Rebel Women: Feminism, Modernism and the Edwardian Novel by Jane Eldridge Miller

• Gesture as Language · 30 January 1992

  • A Cultural History of Gestures: From Antiquity to the Present edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg
  • The New Oxford Book of 17th-Century Verse by Alastair Fowler

• Words washed clean · 5 December 1991

  • From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature by Richard Ruland and Malcolm Bradbury

• Six hands at an open door · 21 March 1991

  • Intertextual Dynamics within the Literary Group: Joyce, Lewis, Pound and Eliot by Dennis Brown
  • An Immodest Violet: The Life of Violet Hunt by Joan Hardwick

• Apocalypse · 14 September 1989

  • The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence, edited by Mark Kinkead-Weekes
  • D.H. Lawrence in the Modern World edited by Peter Preston and Peter Hoare
  • D.H. Lawrence and the Phallic Imagination: Essays on Sexual Identity and Feminist Misreading by Peter Balbert

• Troubles · 23 June 1988

  • The Government of the Tongue: The 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, and Other Critical Writings by Seamus Heaney

• Transcendental Criticism · 3 March 1988

  • The Renewal of Literature: Emersonian Reflections by Richard Poirier

• Buffers · 4 February 1988

  • Argufying: Essays on Literature and Culture by William Empson, edited by John Haffenden

• English Butter · 9 October 1986

  • Englishness: Politics and Culture 1880-1920 edited by Robert Colls and Philip Dodd
  • The Character Factory: Baden-Powell and the Origins of the Boy Scout Movement by Michael Rosenthal
  • Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause? by Richard Symonds

• Kipling the Reliable · 6 March 1986

  • Early Verse by Rudyard Kipling 1879-1889 edited by Andrew Rutherford
  • Kipling’s India: Uncollected Sketches 1884-88 edited by Thomas Pinney
  • Imperialism and Popular Culture edited by John MacKenzie
  • Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases edited by Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell

• Book Reviews · 24 January 1980

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