There are innumerable distinct insights in Holly Case’s The Age of Questions (Princeton, 2018) which are worth exploration on this blog, and perhaps I will round back some time and pick up a few of them. But for today, I want to focus on just one. First, though, a few words about the book as a whole. The subtitle gives some sense of the enormous scope and the light touch Case gives to what she terms “the extremely long nineteenth century (1770-1970)” (xiv). The Age of Questions, Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, Read more