Andrew Shields

"Some frowned, some smiled": Nell Trent observes the world in Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop"

Keynes and the "fearful problem" of occupying oneself

The "vacant evening of his own blank solitude": The space for desire in Jane Austen's "Emma"

"Hobbyless victims" in Basel teen slang and "hobby ideology" in Adorno

Jealousy and Austenian "accomplishments"

"Fingerspitzengefühl" in an article in "The New Yorker"