Jed Esty is the Vartan Gregorian Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of A Shrinking Island (2004), Unseasonable Youth (2012), and The Future of Decline (2022); he is currently working on a new project entitled Cold War Victorians: The Genre System of the Angloworld.
Jed Esty
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Judging by its Cover, Part 2
The first section of “Judging by its Cover” consists of pieces that are interested in the cover as a form of compensation, a covering over, as a piece of gorgeous textile can mask or stand in for what one doesn’t want to confront, or what can’t be confronted for whatever nefarious, oblivious, or self-deceptive reason.