My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.