With two exams in the next two days (Restoration literature and Statistics!), I really don’t have time to be trolling blogs. But A&L Daily, which is one of my faves, linked to a review of Terry Eagleton’s new book, The Event of Literature (not yet released). I love Terry Eagleton, and his Literary Theory: an Introduction was my first foray into thinking critically about what makes literature literary–so I can’t help but give this particular bit of new-book news a bit of attention.

I can’t wait for this title; and I can’t wait until summer when I’ll have time to read for pleasure again! For now, back to Pope and Dryden (and later, Bayes and Mann-Whitney)…