DAN MEYER

Contents

Part the First: Essays

  1. III. “God helpe the man”

    Divine Humility and the Masculine Initiation of the Redcrosse Knight

  2. II. From Warrior to King

    The Tragedy and Failure of an Immature Hero in Beowulf

  3. I. Romance on Display

    Arthurian Romance and British National Identity on Display at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851

Part the Second: Reviews

  1. IX. Là-bas (The Damned)

    Joris-Karl Huysmans and the persistence of the supernatural

  2. VIII. Summer Reading 2026

    An overview of what I read between late June and the first day of autumn

  3. VII. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    A review of the novel by Philip K. Dick

  4. VI. On the Marble Cliffs

    A review of the novella by Ernst Jünger

  5. V. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

    Rereading Heinlein’s novel of lunar revolution and self-government

  6. IV. The White Rajahs

    A review of Steven Runciman’s history of the Brooke dynasty of Sarawak

  7. III. Redburn

    A review of the novel by Herman Melville

  8. II. The Voyage of Argo

    A review of the epic by Apollonius of Rhodes

  9. I. The Machiavellians

    A review of Burnham’s 1943 study of political realism and the myths that mask power