Mary Harrington

Mary Harrington

The World Modernity Ended

Folkloric reading from a Fenland field

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Mary Harrington
Aug 14, 2025
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I’m spending this week on my annual holiday from the Internet, in a field in the East of England with no laptop and almost no phone reception. Since we arrived a few days ago I’ve read multiple books, and I want to tell you about three that take different cuts at the consciousness caesura that England underwent with the onset of modernity.

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