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"What is Literature?" and Other Essays

Jean-Paul Sartre

Introduction by Steven Ungar

What is Literature? challenges anyone who writes as if literature could be extricated from history or society. But Sartre does more than indict. He offers a definitive statement about the phenomenology of reading, and he goes on to provide a dashing example of how to write a history of literature that takes ideology and institutions into account.

Paperback 1988 / Hardcover 1988

Absent without Leave

Denis Hollier

Translated by Catherine Porter

Georges Bataille, Michel Leiris, Roger Caillois, André Malraux, the early Jean-Paul Sartre--these were writers torn between politics and the pleasures of the text, maturing in the 1930s and 1940s in a world that would have no place for literature. And yet it was the work of these writers that shaped French literature--influencing Derrida, Foucault, de Man, Deleuze, and Ricoeur--and so profoundly affected literary enterprise in the English-speaking world since 1968. This literary history, the prehistory of postmodernism, is what Hollier recovers in his interlocking studies of the main figures of French literary life before the age of anxiety gave way to the era of existentialist commitment.

Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997

The Aesthetics of Chaosmos

Umberto Eco

Translated by Ellen Esrock

David Robey, Introductory note

Paperback 1989

Alexander Pope

John Paul Russo

Hardcover 1972

Allegory, Myth, and Symbol

Morton Bloomfield

Hardcover / Paperback

Amphoteroglossia

Panagiotis Roilos

This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel. Rollos investigates the complex ways in which rhetorical theory and practice constructed the overarching cultural aesthetics that conditioned the production and reception of the genre of the novel in Byzantine society.

Paperback 2006

An Appetite for Poetry

Frank Kermode

This is a book in which Kermode asks the reader to share his pleasure in the literature of a set of major writers--Milton, Eliot, Stevens. Other essays draw our attention to debates on the literary canon and problems of biblical criticism and their implications for the study of narrative in particular and the interpretation of secular literary texts in general.

Hardcover 1989

An Introductory Bibliography to the Study of Hungarian Literature

Albert Tezla

Hardcover 1964

André Gide

Alan Sheridan

In this literary biography of Gide, an intimate portrait of the reluctantly public man emerges. Following Gide from his first forays among the Symbolists through his sexual and political awakenings to his worldwide fame as a writer, sage, and commentator on his age, Sheridan richly conveys the drama of a remarkable life; the depth, breadth, and vitality of an incomparable oeuvre; and the spirit of a time that both so aptly expressed.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000

The Anglo-Saxon Poems in Bright's Anglo-Saxon Reader

Francis Peabody Magoun

Hardcover 1969

Antonio Machado

Translated by Alan S. Trueblood

Antonio Machado

Hardcover 1982 / Paperback

The Arcades Project

Walter Benjamin

Edited by Rolf Tiedemann

Translated by Howard Eiland

Translated by Kevin McLaughlin

Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of nineteenth-century history, and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "true history" that underlay the ideological mask. Preoccupied with the commodification of things and focusing on the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centers of consumerism--Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in thirty-six categories with descriptive rubrics such as "Fashion," "Boredom," "Catacombs," "Prostitution," and "Theory of Progress."

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2002

Art Inscribed

Emilie L. Bergmann

Hardcover

The Art of Telling

Frank Kermode

Kermode assesses the revolutionary transformations in literary criticism over the last fifteen years and places them in historical perspective. Examining novels ranging in scope from a 1907 bestseller to the avant-garde works of various periods, he includes such writers as Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Michel Butor, and Thomas Pynchon.

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback

Arthur Hugh Clough

Evelyn Greenberger

In this fresh examination of Clough, Greenberger traces the intellectual development of a poet who was considered a brilliant failure in his own day, a reputation that still persists despite the fact that Clough is now attracting considerable critical attention. Her study contradicts this traditional view of him as ineffectual and uncommitted and reveals instead a complex figure whose varied interests enriched his prose and poetry.

Hardcover 1970

Arts of Impoverishment

Leo Bersani

Ulysse Dutoit

Paperback / Hardcover

The Bab Ballads

W. S. Gilbert

Edited by James Ellis

W. S. Gilbert, renowned author of the Savoy Operas, was also the creator of the Bab Ballads--"possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language," according to James Ellis. Gilbert published these poems, together with his own, grotesque drawings signed "Bab," a childhood nickname, in Fun and other magazines in the late nineteenth century. In 1898, the older and by then distinguished Gilbert substituted pallid and inoffensive drawings for the originals, which he had come to believe "erred gravely in the direction of unnecessary extravagance." Since then the ballads have been collected and published in various editions, most of which have featured the revised drawings and only a selection of the poems. This is the only book to offer the complete collection of ballads with all original illustrations, a tribute to the comic genius of a writer known as "the most original dramatist of his generation."

Hardcover 1970 / Paperback 2003

Baiae

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano

Translated by Rodney G. Dennis

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano was an important humanist and scholar of Renaissance Italy. He was also the most innovative and versatile Latin poet of Quattrocento Italy. His Two Books of Hendecasyllables, given the subtitle Baiae, are the elegant offspring of Pontano's leisure, written to celebrate love, good wine, friendship, nature, and all the pleasures of life to be found at the seaside resort of Baiae on the Bay of Naples.

Hardcover 2006

Baldo, Volume 1, Books I-XII

Teofilo Folengo

Translated by Ann E. Mullaney

Folengo (1491-1544) was a native of Mantua and a member of the Benedictine order, later to become a runaway monk and satirist. Blending Latin and various Italian dialects in a deliberately droll manner, Baldo follows a sort of French royal juvenile delinquent through imprisonment, fantastical adventures, and a journey to the underworld. This edition provides the first English translation of this hilarious send-up of the ancient epic and Renaissance chivalric romance traditions.

Hardcover 2007

Baldo, Volume 2, Books XIII-XXV

Teofilo Folengo

Translated by Ann E. Mullaney

Folengo (1491–1544) was born in Mantua and joined the Benedictine order, but became a runaway monk and a satirist of monasticism. In 1517 he published, under the pseudonym Merlin Cocaio, the first version of his macaronic narrative poem Baldo. This edition provides the first English translation of this hilarious send-up of ancient epic and Renaissance chivalric romance.

Hardcover 2008

The Ballad and Oral Literature

Edited by Joseph Harris

Paperback 1991 / Hardcover 1991

Ben Jonson

David Riggs

Hardcover 1989 / Paperback

Ben Jonson's Parodic Strategy

Robert N. Watson

Hardcover 1987

Benjamin's -abilities

Samuel Weber

In this book, Weber, a leading theorist on literature and media, reveals a new and productive aspect of Benjamin’s thought by focusing the critical suffix “-ability” that Benjamin so tellingly deploys in his work. The result is an illuminating perspective on Benjamin’s thought by way of his language—and one of the most penetrating and comprehensive accounts of Benjamin’s work ever written.

Hardcover 2008

Berlin Childhood around 1900

Walter Benjamin

Translated by Howard Eiland

Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood around 1900 is a recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century. In this diagram of his life, Benjamin focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child. This book is one of Benjamin's great city texts, bringing to life the cocoon of his childhood--the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of an emerging metropolis.

Paperback 2006

Beyond Egotism

Robert Kiely

Hardcover 1980

Blessings in Disguise

Jean Starobinski

Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Hardcover

The Book the Poet Makes

Peter Nohrnberg

Peter Nohrnberg asks the largely unexplored question of how and why a collection of lyrics is transformed into a unified book. Nohrnberg's subject is not the lyric sequence, a recognized form, but the ordinary collections of poems. For his examples the author dwells on Yeats's The Tower and Lowell's Life Studies.

Paperback

Breathing under Water and Other East European Essays

Stanislaw Baranczak

These superb essays focus on the role that culture, and particularly literature, has played in keeping the spirit of intellectual independence alive in Eastern and Central Europe. Exploring a variety of issues from censorship to underground poetry, Baranczak shows why, in societies where people struggle to survive under totalitarian rule, art is believed to have the power to make things happen.

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992

Browning's Youth

John Maynard

Hardcover 1977

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume I, 'In my hot youth', 1798-1810

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

The first volume of Byron's letters and journals covers his early years and includes his first pilgrimage to Greece and to the East, ending with his last letter from Constantinople on July 4, 1810, before his departure for Athens. Here is the direct record of his rapid development from the serious schoolboy to the facetious youth with ambivalent reactions to his perplexed mother, and the maturing man of extraordinary perceptions and sympathies and friendships.

Hardcover 1973

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume II, 'Famous in my time', 1810-1812

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Hardcover 1973

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume III, 'Alas! the love of women', 1813-1814

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

The third volume starts with Byron at the first crest of his fame following the publication of Childe Harold. It includes his literary letters to Tom Moore, frank and intimate ones to Hobhouse, pungent ones to Hanson and Murray, and his lively and amusing missives to Lady Melbourne, his confidante through all his love affairs.

Hardcover 1974

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume IV, 'Wedlock's the devil', 1814-1815

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

In this volume Byron corresponds with writers such as Thomas Moore, Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, and "Monk" Lewis, with John Murray about the publication of The Corsair, Lara, and the Hebrew Melodies, and with many personal friends. A new interest is his association with the Drury Lane Theater. The crucial events of his private life at this time are his engagement to Anabella Milbanke and their marriage early in 1815--a marriage that was to last little more than a year. Especially revelatory are his letters to his fiancée and those to his long-time confidante, Lady Melbourne.

Hardcover 1975

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume IX, 'In the wind's eye', 1821-1822

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Hardcover

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume V, 'So late into the night', 1816-1817

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

In the fifth installment of this marvelous serial story, we read about Byron's separation from his wife. Besides his pleading letters to Annabella asking her to reconsider, there are level-headed letters to Murray and Hobhouse and Hunt and Rogers--all written during the tempestuous time before his final departure from England. The very best letters here are the ones from Italy; freed from the inhibitions of English society, Byron's spirit seems to expand and his letters reflect the joie de vivre that, despite his melancholy, was an inherent part of his character.

Hardcover 1976

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VI, 'The flesh is frail', 1818-1819

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Byron's epistolary saga continues con brio in this volume. At the start of 1818 he sends off the last canto of Childe Harold and abandons himself to the debaucheries of the Carnival in Venice. At the close of 1819 he resolves to return to England but instead follows Teresa Guiccioli to Ravenna. In the meantime he writes three long poems and two cantos of Don Juan, whose bowdlerization he violently protests; he breaks off with Marianna Segati, copes with his amorous "tigress" Margarita Cogni, then falls passionately in love with the young Countess Guiccioli; he thinks seriously of emigrating to South America; he takes custody of his little daughter Allegra and becomes increasingly fond of the child. The Shelleys visit him, as does Thomas Moore, to whom he entrusts his memoirs (burned after his death).

Hardcover 1976

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VII, 'Between two worlds', 1820

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Hardcover 1978

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VIII, 'Born for opposition', 1821

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Born for Opposition opens with Byron in Ravenna, in 1821. His passion for the Countess Guiccioli is subsiding into playful fondness, and he confesses to his sister Augusta that he is not "so furiously in love as at first." Italy, meanwhile, is afire with the revolutionary activities of the Carbornari, which Byron sees as "the very poetry of politics." His Journal, written while the insurrection grew, is a remarkable record of his reading and reflections while awaiting the sounds of gunfire.

Hardcover 1978

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume X, 'A heart for every fate', 1822-1823

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Hardcover 1980

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume XI, 'For freedom's battle', 1823-1824

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Hardcover 1981

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume XII, 'The trouble of an index', index

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Hardcover 1982

The Canon of Sir Thomas Wyatt's Poety

Richard Harrier

Hardcover 1975

Carlyle and the Burden of History

John D. Rosenberg

Hardcover 1986

Charles Dickens

J. Hillis Miller

Hardcover 1958

Chaucer and The Legend of Good Women

Robert Worth Frank

Frank begins his analysis with a careful consideration of Chaucer's situation in 1386, the year he presumably began the Legend. It was, he suggests, a momentin his career propitious for change--change in subject and in art as well. The Legend reveals this change in the process of its accomplishment.

Hardcover 1972

A Choice of Inheritance

David Bromwich

For the last two centuries, literature has tested the authority of the individual and the community. With a historical as well as an interpretative emphasis, Bromwich explores this tension. He shows why the public-mindedness of the eighteenth century is as limited a model for readers now as the individualism of the nineteenth century.

Hardcover 1989

Ciceronian Controversies

Edited by JoAnn DellaNeva

Translated by Brian Duvick

The main literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those Neo-Latin writers favoring Cicero alone as the apotheosis of Latin prose against those following an eclectic array of literary models. This Ciceronian controversy pervades the texts and letters collected for the first time in this volume. Addressing some of the most fundamental aspects of literary production, these quarrels shed light on similar debates about vernacular literature concerning imitation and the role of the author.

Hardcover 2007

Closer to Home

Roger Sale

Hardcover 1986

Coercion to Speak

Aaron Fogel

Conrad's was a distinctive reading of the English language conditioned by his particular idea of forced speech and forced writing. Fogel shows how Conrad shaped ideas and events and interpreted character and institutions by means of dialogues representing not free exchange but various forms of forcing another to respond. Fogel proposes that to understand this form is to begin to reconsider our political and aesthetic assumptions about what dialogue is or ought to be.

Hardcover 1985

Coming to Writing" and Other Essays

Helene Cixous

Edited and translated by Deborah Jenson

Translated by Sarah Cornell

Translated by Ann Liddle

Translated by Susan Sellers

Susan Rubin Suleiman

This collection presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, Cixous here explores how the problematics of the sexes--viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaning--manifest themselves, write themselves, in texts.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Complete Poems

John Keats

Edited by Jack Stillinger

Here is the first reliable edition of Keats's complete poems designed expressly for general readers and students. Jack Stillinger provides helpful explanatory notes to the poems which give dates of composition, identify quotations and allusions, gloss names and words not included in the ordinary desk dictionary, and refer the reader to the best critical interpretations of the poems. The new introduction provides central facts about Keats's life and career, describes the themes of his best work, and speculates on the causes of his greatness.

Hardcover 1982 / Paperback 1991

Convention, 1500-1750

Lawrence Manley

Hardcover 1980

Costly Monuments

Barbara Leah Harman

Harman begins by surveying the critical tradition on Herbert's work in our century--from George Herbert Palmer to Stanley Fish. In this penetrating assessment Harman explores the relationship between critical practice and belief.

Hardcover 1982

The Creative Mind in Coleridge's Poetry

Kathleen M. Wheeler

Hardcover 1982

Dante

John Freccero

Edited and with an introduction by Rachel Jacoff

Freccero enables us to see the Divine Comedy for the bold, poetic experiment that it is. Too many critics have domesticated Dante by separating his theology from his poetics. Freccero argues that to fail to see the convergence of the letter and the spirit, the pilgrim and the poet, is to fail to understand Dante's poetics of conversion.

Hardcover 1986 / Paperback

Darwin and the Novelists

George Levine

Darwin’s theory thrust human life into time and nature and subjected it to naturalistic rather than spiritual or moral analysis. Insisting on gradual and regular–lawful–change, Darwinian thought nevertheless requires acknowledgment of chance and randomness for a full explanation of biological phenomena. George Levine shows how these conceptions affected nineteenth–century novelists—from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad—and draws illuminating contrasts with the pre–Darwinian novel and the perspective of natural theology.

Hardcover 1988

Death Sentences

Garrett Stewart

Hardcover 1984

Death in Quotation Marks

Svetlana Boym

Hardcover 1991

Delirious Milton

Gordon Teskey

The argument of Delirious Milton is that Milton's creative power is drawn from a rift at the center of his consciousness over the question of creation itself. This rift forces the poet to oscillate deliriously between two incompatible perspectives, at once affirming and denying the presence of spirit in what he creates. From one perspective, the act of creation is centered in God and the purpose of art is to imitate and praise the Creator. From the other perspective, the act of creation is centered in the human, in the built environment of the modern world.

Hardcover 2006

Derrida

Christopher Norris

Norris demonstrates that Derrida's texts should be understood as belonging more to philosophy than to literature. He explains the significance of Derrida's writing on texts in the Western philosophical tradition, from Plato to Kant, liegel, and tiusserl, placing him squarely within that tradition. He also discusses some of the reasons for the massive institutional resistance that has so far prevented philosophers from engaging seriously with Derrida's work.

Paperback

Desiring Donne

Ben Saunders

Desiring Donne explores the dialectic of desire, re-evaluating both Donne's poetry and the complex responses it has inspired, from his earliest readers to his recent professional critics. Witty, erudite, theoretically engaged, but intensely readable, this study takes into account recent developments in the fields of historicism, feminism, queer theory, and postmodern psychoanalysis, while offering dazzling close readings of many of Donne's most famous poems.

Hardcover 2007

Divagations

Stéphane Mallarmé

Translated by Barbara Johnson

The salmagundi of prose poems, prose-poetic musings, criticism, and reflections that is Divagations has long been considered a treasure trove by students of aesthetics and modern poetry. This was the only book of prose that Mallarmé published in his lifetime and, in a new translation by Johnson, it is now available for the first time in English just as he arranged it, in all of its languor and musicality.

Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2009

The Dramatic Craftsmanship of Moreto

Frank P. Casa

Hardcover 1966

Early Auden

Edward Mendelson

Paperback 1983

English Romanticism and the French Tradition

Margery Sabin

Hardcover 1976

Essays and Dialogues

Bartolomeo Scala

Translated by Renée Neu Watkins

Introduction by Alison Brown

From humble beginnings, Scala (1430–1497) trained in the law and rose to prominence serving as secretary and treasurer to the Medicis and chancellor of the Guelf party before becoming first chancellor of Florence. This volume collects works from throughout his career that show his acquaintance with recently rediscovered ancient writers, and the influence of fellow humanists such as Marsilio Ficino, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.

Hardcover 2008

Essays in Honor of James Edward Walsh

Edited by William H. Bond

A collection of 15 essays in honor of James Edward Walsh, Keeper of Printed Books at Houghton Library, on his sixty-fifth birthday. The book includes a tribute by William H. Bond and contributions by Paul Raabe, Philip Hofer, Eckehard Simon, Rodney G. Dennis, Karl S. Guthke, Eugene Weber, Ruth Mortimer, Eleanor M. Garvey, Anne Anninger, Hugh Amory, John Lancaster, Roger E. Stoddard, and many more.

Paperback 2005

Eugenio Montale

Rebecca J. West

Hardcover 1981

The Evolution of Shakespeare’s Comedy

Champion

Paperback

Experience and Artistic Expression in Lope de Vega

Alan S. Trueblood

Trueblood pursues the artistic consequences of a key experience in Lope's life, the four-year love affair with Elena Osorio that terminated violently in 1587. Trueblood provides by far the fullest analysis and elucidation of Lope's masterpiece, La Dorotea, that it has ever received.

Hardcover 1974

The Fall of Camelot

John D. Rosenberg

Far from being an escapist medieval charade, Rosenberg shows, the Idylls offers an apocalyptic prevision of the nightmare of modern history. Concealed under the exquisitely romantic surface of the verse is a world of obsessive sensuality and collapsing values that culminates in the "last dim weird battle the West." Perhaps the subtlest anatomy of the failure of ideality in our literature, the Idylls is not only about hazards of mistaking illusion for reality; it dramatically enacts those dangers, ensnaring the reader in the same delusions that maim and destroy the characters.

Hardcover 1973

Famous Women

Giovanni Boccaccio

Edited and translated by Virginia Brown

After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women. This edition presents the first English translation based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.

Hardcover 2001

Famous Women

Giovanni Boccaccio

Translated by Virginia Brown

The first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women, Famous Women affords a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history when medieval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential.

Paperback 2003

Fernan Mendez Pinto

Antonio Enriquez Gomez

Hardcover 1974

Fiction and Repetition

J. Hillis Miller

Hardcover 1982 / Paperback 1985

Fiction in the Age of Photography

Nancy Armstrong

In this provocative study of British realism, Nancy Armstrong explains how Victorian fiction entered into a dynamic relationship with the new popular art of photography. So willing was the readership to think of the real as photographs, that authors from Charles Dickens to the Brontës, Oscar Wilde, and Virginia Woolf had to use the same visual conventions to represent what was real, especially when they sought to debunk those conventions. The Victorian novel's collaboration with photography was indeed so successful, Armstrong contends, that literary criticism assumes a text is gesturing toward the real whenever it invokes a photograph.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

Fictions of Romantic Irony

Lilian R. Furst

This book makes a new approach to romantic irony by envisaging it in a broad European context in relation both to earlier concepts of irony and to traditional uses of irony in narration. Through an analysis of six major European narratives of the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century it illustrates the reciprocal interplay of theory and practice, and the complex and central role that irony assumes as a shaping aesthetic factor. Using a wide perspective and an original synchronic disposition of texts within its historical framework, it identifies the distinctive philosophical and literary features of romantic irony.

Hardcover 1984

Five Irish Writers

John Hildebidle

Born within a few years of each other near the turn of the century, these writers represented the first literary generation to come of age in the shadow of Ireland's twin monuments, Joyce's Ulysses and the poetry of William Butler Yeats, and their work has too long remained in that shadow. As Hildebidle demonstrates, all five authors saw in the Ireland that grew out of the events of 1916-1923 a nation that stifled the creative energies and bright hopes of its youth, and their fiction can be seen as responding in diverse ways to that reality.

Hardcover 1989

Fleeting Things

Gerald Hammond

Hardcover 1990

Forming the Critical Mind

James Engell

While offering major reevaluations of Dryden, Hume, and Johnson, Engelldemonstrates that eighteenth-century criticism cannot be represented by just a few major critics or by generalizations about Augustan taste, neoclassical rules, or "common sense." He presents a complex and highly varied body of theoretical writing and practical application by dozens of critics. He also analyzes the continued relevance of their critical work, drawing connections with modern writers such as Eliot, Frye, Saussure, Barthes, Culler, Bakhtin, and Levi-Strauss.

Hardcover 1989

Four Essays on Romance

Edited by Herschel C. Baker

Paperback

From Copyright to Copperfield

Alexander Welsh

Hardcover 1987

A Fugitive from Utopia

Stanislaw Baranczak

Baranczak, himself a poet, critic, and translator, emigrated from Poland in 1981, and is therefore eminently qualified to supply a politico-cultural context for Herbert while describing and analyzing the texts and themes of his poems. Herbert's poetry is based on permanent confrontation--the confrontation of Western tradition with the experience of a "barbarian" from Eastern Europe, of the classical past with the modern era, of cultural myth with a practical, empirical point of view.

Hardcover 1987

A Genetic Approach to Structures in the Work of Jean Genet

Camille Naish

Hardcover 1978

George Eliot and the Novel of Vocation

Alan Mintz

In the nineteenth century, Mintz maintains, work ceased to be merely what one did for a living or out of a sense of duty and became a vehicle for self-definition and self-realization. He shows how George Eliot, in particular, linked these new social possibilities to the older Puritan doctrine of calling or vocation, achieving in her late novels a fictional structure that could encompass the conflicting energies of the age.

Hardcover 1978

George Henry Lewes

Hock Guan Tjoa

George Henry Lewes, consort of George Eliot biographer of Robespierre and Goethe, novelist, editor, and critic, was also a scientist and philosopher. An intellectual figure of great importance on the Victorian scene, he has never before received adequate modern scholarly appreciation. In this book Professor Tjoa not only reconstructs Lewes’ theory of criticism and his social and political opinions but also evaluates his contributions to Darwinian science both as original thinker and as popularizer.

Hardcover 1978

A Grouped Frequency Word-List of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

John F. Madden

Francis Peabody Magoun

Hardcover 1954

The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture

Bruce Haley

The quest for health guided Victorian living habits, shaped educational goals, and sanctioned a mania for athletic sports. As both metaphor and ideal, it influenced psychology, religion, moral philosophy; it affected the writing of history as well as the criticism of literature. Here is a wide-ranging and ably written exploration of this fascinating aspect of Victorian ideas.

Hardcover 1978

The Hidden Reader

Victor Brombert

Brombert shows how a text works--its structure and narrative devices, and the symbolic function of characters, episodes, words--and he highlights the distinctive postures and styles of each writer. He gives us a sense of the hidden inner text as well as the techniques writers have devised to lead their readers to the discovery of what is hidden. With wonderful subtlety he unravels the reader's participatory response, whether it be Hugo reading Shakespeare, Sartre reading Hugo, Stendhal reading Rousseau, T. S. Eliot misreading Baudelaire, or Baudelaire, Balzac, and Flaubert reading their own sensibilities.

Hardcover 1988

A History of Italian Literature

Ernest Hatch Wilkins

Hardcover 1974

A History of Modern Poetry, Volume I, From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode

David Perkins

This book embraces an era of enormous creative variety--the formative period during which the Romantic traditions of the past were abandoned or transformed and a major new literature created. More than a hundred poets are treated in this volume, and many more are noticed in passing. Perkins discusses each poet and type of poetry with keen critical appreciation.

Hardcover 1976 / Paperback

A History of Modern Poetry, Volume II, Modernism and After

David Perkins

Perkins discusses some 160 poets, mentioning many others more briefly, and does not hesitate to explain, to criticize, to admire, to render judgments. He clarifies the complex interrelations of individuals, groups, and movements and the contexts in which the poets worked: not only the predecessors and contemporaries they responded to but the journals that published them, the expectations of the audience, changing premises about poetry, the writings of critics, developments in other arts, and the momentous events of political and social history.

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback

Homer and the Nibelungenlied

Bernard Fenik

Hardcover 1986

The Honor Plays of Lope de Vega

Donald R. Larson

Hardcover 1978

How Milton Works

Stanley Fish

Surprised by Sin, first published in 1967, established Fish as one of the world's preeminent Milton scholars. The lifelong engagement begun in that work culminates in this book, the magnum opus of a formidable critic and the definitive statement on Milton for our time.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003

Humanist Educational Treatises

Edited and translated by Craig W. Kallendorf

The disciplines now known as the humanities emerged during the Italian Renaissance as the result of an educational reform movement begun by humanist teachers, writers, and scholars. This volume contains four of the most important theoretical statements that emerged from these efforts: Pier Paolo Vergerio, "The Character and Studies Befitting a Free-Born Youth"; Leonardo Bruni, "The Study of Literature"; Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), "The Education of Boys"; and Battista Guarino, "A Program of Teaching and Learning."

Hardcover 2002

Hungarian Authors

Albert Tezla

This exceptional bibliography, a pioneer work in its field, surveys Hungarian literature from its beginnings to 1965. Tezla begins his coverage of each author with a brief biographical account offering pertinent data on family background, education, and literary activities. The sketch provides observations on the writings of the author and his place in Hungarian literature, and a record of the languages into which his works have been translated. Further material on the author is divided into annotated sections noting bibliographical, biographical, and critical studies.

Hardcover 1970

Hyder Edward Rollins

Herschel C. Baker

Hyder Rollins’ publications ranging from the Elizabethans to Keats, admirably exemplified his dedication to scholarship. This bibliography constitutes in terms of quantity alone, a record of formidable achievement; and the ordering of this wealth of publication gives scholars the means of easy reference to a sequence of impeccable research.

Hardcover

Image and Theme

Edited by W. M. Frohock

Paperback 1969

In Defence of the Imagination

Helen Gardner

Hardcover 1982 / Paperback

Instigations

Richard Sieburth

Hardcover 1978

Invectives

Francesco Petrarca

Edited and translated by David Marsh

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. His four Invectives were intended to revive the eloquence of the great Roman orator Cicero. The Invectives are directed against the cultural idols of the Middle Ages--against scholastic philosophy and medicine and the dominance of French culture in general. This volume provides a new critical edition of the Latin text based on the two autograph copies, and the first English translation of three of the four invectives.

Hardcover 2004

Invectives

Francesco Petrarca

Translated by David Marsh

Petrarca, one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. Petrarch’s four Invectives, written in Latin, were inspired by the eloquence of the great Roman orator Cicero. The new translations in this volume include the first English translation of three of the four invectives.

Paperback 2008

Inventing Ireland

Declan Kiberd

Declan Kiberd offers a vivid account of the personalities and texts--English and Irish alike--that reinvented Ireland after centuries of colonialism. Combining detailed and daring interpretations of literary masterpieces with assessments of the wider role of language, sport, clothing, politics, and philosophy in the Irish revival, this book is a major literary history of modern Ireland.

Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997

Invisible Friends

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Benjamin Robert Haydon

Edited by Williard Bissell Pope

Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Benjamin Robert Haydon never met, their lively and topical conversation, initiated in 1842, continued unabated until 1845, about a year before the painter's suicide. It was a somewhat lopsided correspondence in which ninety–four letters written by Haydon, most of which have not been published before, received fewer replies from Miss Barrett, twenty–eight of which are included in this book. Judging from the contents of the letters, the epistolary friendship was truly meaningful to both. To Miss Barrett, Haydon was “my dear kind friend”; he was far more effusive, addressing her as “you Ingenious little darling invisible” and “my dearest dream & invisible intellectuality.”

Hardcover

Irish Classics

Declan Kiberd

A celebration of the tenacious life of the enduring Irish classics, this book by one of Irish writing's most eloquent readers offers a rich survey of the greatest works since 1600 in Gaelic and English.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Is Milton Better than Shakespeare?

Nigel Smith

Smith makes a compelling case for Milton’s relevance to our present situation. In direct and accessible terms, he shows how the seventeenth-century poet, while working to write the greatest heroic poem in the English language, also managed to theorize about religious, political, and civil liberty in ways that matter as much today as they did in Puritanical times.

Hardcover 2008

Jane Austen

Tony Tanner

Tanner guides us through Austen's novels from relatively sunny early works to the darker, more pessimistic Persuasion and fragmentary Sanditon--a journey that takes her from acceptance of a society maintained by landed property, family, money, and strict propriety through an insistence on the need for authentication of these values to a final skepticism and even rejection. In showing her progress from a parochial optimism to an ability to encompass her whole society, Tanner renews our sense of Jane Austen as one of the great novelists, confirming both her local and abiding relevance.

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback

John Keats

Walter Jackson Bate

Since most of Keats's early poetry has survived, his artistic development can be observed more closely than is possible with most writers; and there are times during the period of his greatest creativity when his personal as well as his artistic life can be followed week by week. Bate has been concerned to show the organic relationship between the poet's art and his larger, more broadly humane development. This is a book of many dimensions, not a restricted critical or biographical study but a fully integrated whole.

Hardcover 1963 / Paperback 1979

John Keats

John Keats

With an essay by Helen Vendler

Edited by Jack Stillinger

Hardcover 1990

John Ruskin, or the Ambiguities of Abundance

James Clark Sherburne

Until 1860 John Ruskin's writings were primarily about art and architecture; but his belief that good art can flourish only in a society that is sound and healthy led him inevitably to a preoccupation with social and economic problems, the dominant concern of his later writings. Sherburne provides in this volume a detailed and long overdue re-examination of Ruskin's social and economic perceptions and, for the first time, systematically places these perceptions in their nineteenth-century intellectual context.

Hardcover 1972

Johnson and His Age

Edited by James Engell

Published in the bicentennial year of Samuel Johnson's death, Johnson and His Age includes contributions by some of the nation's most eminent scholars of eighteenth-century literature. It includes sections on Johnson's life, major figures of the age, and the novel.

Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

Josef Dobrovsky and the Origins of the Igor’ Tale

Edward L. Keenan

This controversial and groundbreaking book revisits the origins of one of the most beloved works of East Slavic literature, the Slovo o polku Igoreve (the Igor' Tale). Keenan delves into the history of its publication and argues that the text is not an authentic twelfth-century document, but was rather created by the Bohemian scholar Josef Dobrovsky' in the late eighteenth century.

Hardcover 2004

The Journals of Claire Clairmont

Claire Clairmont

The diaries of Clairmont are, so far as is known, the last of the major documents of the Shelley-Byron circle to be published. Only the writings of the Shelleys themselves surpass hers in importance for those interested in the careers of the poets and their friends. Best known as Byron's mistress and the mother of his daughter Allegra, "Claire," as she preferred to be called, is important to literary history for her role in bringing Byron and Shelley together.

Hardcover 1968

Kalevala

Translated by Francis Peabody Magoun

Compiled by Elias Lönnrot

The national folk epic of Finland is here presented in an English translation that is both scholarly and eminently readable. To avoid the imprecision and metrical monotony of earlier verse translations, Magoun has used prose, printed line for line as in the original so that repetitions, parallelisms, and variations are readily apparent. The lyrical passages and poetic images, the wry humor, the tall-tale extravagance, and the homely realism of the Kalevala come through with extraordinary effectiveness.

Paperback

Kipling and Conrad

John A. McClure

In this skillfully written essay on the fiction of imperialism, McClure portrays the colonialist--his nature, aspirations, and frustrations--as perceived by Kipling and Conrad. And he relates these perceptions to the world and experiences of both writers.

Hardcover 1981

L'univers theatral de Corneille

A. S.-M. Goulet

Hardcover 1978

Language in Literature

Roman Jakobson

Edited by Krystyna Pomorska

Edited by Stephen Rudy

This book is the first comprehensive presentation in English of Jakobson's major essays on the intertwining of language and literature: here the reader will learn how it was that Jakobson became legendary. This will become a basic book for contemplating the function of language in literature--a project that will continue to engross the keenest readers.

Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990

The Language of Power, The Power of Language

Stephen Cohen

Paperback 1988

Learned Lady

Robert Browning

In reproducing sixty-six letters in the Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, plus eight letters or portions of letters previously published, this book offers one of the best sources available for the last fourteen years of Browning's life. Written to a dear friend who was also a "learned lady," the letters deal with Browning's poetry, his social life, and his friendships. They also give some of his views on the nature of poetry, of art, and of religion.

Hardcover 1966

The Learned and the Lewed

Larry D. Benson

Hardcover 1975 / Paperback

Les Esprits

Pierre de Larivey

Donald Stone

Paperback 1978

The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume I, 1821-1850

Alfred Lord Tennyson

In a comprehensive introduction the editors present not only the biographical background, with vivid portrayals of the dramatis personae, but also the story of the manuscripts, the ones that were destroyed and the many that luckily survived. The editors have garnered and selected a large number of letters to and about Tennyson which supplement his own letters, fill in lacunae in the narrative, and reveal him to us as his friends and contemporaries saw him.

Hardcover 1981

The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Volume II, 1851-1870

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Edited by Cecil Y. Lang

Edited by Edgar F. Shannon

Volume II reveals the gradual emergence of a new and different Tennyson, moving confidently among the great and famous, yet remaining very much a son of Lincolnshire. Through the letters we learn something about his poetry, much about his dealings with publishers, and even more about his travels; and it is clear that all that he met became part of him and of his poetry.

Hardcover 1987

The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857

Gustave Flaubert

Edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller

Hardcover 1980 / Paperback

The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1857-1880

Gustave Flaubert

Edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller

An acknowledged master of translation, Francis Steegmuller has given us by far the most generous and varied selection of Flaubert's letters in English. He presents these with an engrossing narrative that places them in the context of the writer's life and times. Throughout this exposition in Flaubert's own words of his views on life, literature, and the passions, readers of his novels will be powerfully reminded of the fertility of his genius, and delighted by his poetic enthusiasm. Flaubert's letters are documents of life and art; lovers of literature and of the literary adventure can rejoice in this edition.

Hardcover 1982 / Paperback

The Letters of John Keats, 1814-1821, Volumes 1 and 2,

John Keats

Edited by Hyder Edward Rollins

Rollins, one of the world's foremost Keats authorities, has prepared a completely new edition of all the extant letters, with an extensive listing of the letters presumed missing. In addition to many letters from Keats' relatives and friends, the present work includes seven letters or other documents signed or written by Keats that appear in no English edition, and also new texts of seven other letters by the poet.

Hardcover 1958 / Hardcover 2002

The Letters of Mrs. Gaskell

Elizabeth Cleghorn (Stevenson) Gaskell

Edited by J. A. V. Chapple

Edited by Arthur Pollard

Hardcover 1966

Letters to Molly

John Millington Synge

Edited by Ann Saddlemyer

When Synge and Molly Allgood fell in love, he was thirty-five, she nineteen. Neither knew that he had Hodgkin's disease and would die in three years. Seldom able to be alone together, they wrote letters almost daily. Synge's letters--hers do not survive--are a poignant record of a love that was foredoomed.

Hardcover 1971 / Paperback 1984

Letters, Volume 1, Books I-IV

Angelo Poliziano

Edited and translated by Shane Butler

Angelo Poliziano was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leading literary figure of the Age of Lorenzo de' Medici. His correspondence gives us an intimate glimpse of the revival of classical literature from the pen of a man at the very center of the Renaissance movement. This volume illuminates his close friendship with the philosopher Pico della Mirandola and includes much of the correspondence concerning the composition and reception of his Miscellanies, a revolutionary work of philology. It also includes his famous and moving letter on the death of Lorenzo de' Medici.

Hardcover 2006

A Lion for Love

Robert Alter

Carol Cosman, In collaboration with

Paperback 1986

Literary Structure, Evolution, and Value

Jurij Streidter

Hardcover 1989

Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron

Edited by Leslie A. Marchand

Hardcover 1982 / Paperback

Love Calls Us to the Things of this World

Jeanne Heifetz

Paperback 1982

Love as Passion

Niklas Luhmann

Translated by Jeremy Gaines

Translated by Doris L. Jones

This book takes us back to when passionate love took place exclusively outside of marriage, and Luhmann shows by lively references to social customs and literature how a language and code of behavior were developed so that notions of love and intimacy could be made the essential components of married life. This intimacy and privacy made possible by a social arrangement in which home is where the heart is provides the basis for a society of individuals--the foundation for the structure of modern life. Love is now declared to be unfathomable and personal, yet we love and suffer--as Luhmann shows--according to cultural imperatives.

Hardcover 1987

Marlowe's Agonists

Christopher G. Fanta

Paperback 1970

The Marriage of Contraries

J. L. Wisenthal

Hardcover 1974

Marxism and Literary History

John Frow

Frow's book is a novel contribution to Marxist literary theory, proposing a reconciliation of formalism and historicism in order to establish the basis for a new literary history. Through a critique of his forerunners in Marxist theory, Frow seeks to define the strengths and the limitations of this tradition and then to extend its possibilities in a radical reworking of the concept of discourse.

Hardcover 1986

The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition

Gísli Sigurdsson

Translated by Nicholas Jones

This work explores the role of orality in shaping and evaluating medieval Icelandic literature. Applying field studies of oral cultures in modern times to this distinguished medieval literature, Gísli Sigurðsson asks how it would alter our reading of medieval Icelandic sagas if it were assumed they had grown out of a tradition of oral storytelling, similar to that observed in living cultures.

Paperback 2004

Melancholy and Society

Wolf Lepenies

Translated by Jeremy Gaines

Translated by Doris L. Jones

Judith N. Shklar

In this book, one of Europe's leading intellectuals shows that melancholy is not only a psychological condition that affects individuals but also a social and cultural phenomenon that can be of considerable help in understanding the modern middle class. His larger topic is, in fact, modernity in general.

Hardcover 1992

Memorias

Sancho Cota

This is the first printed edition of the sixteenth-century autograph manuscript by the Castilian Sancho Cota, secretary to Eleanor, sister of the Spanish Emperor Charles V, and later Queen of Portugal and France. The language of the original, typical of Toledan speech in the early sixteenth century, is preserved without change. An informative introduction discusses the language and the work, and provides the reader with a brief biography of the author.

Hardcover 1964

The Mobilization of Intellect

Martha Hanna

France went to war in 1914 not only in the trenches but also in the mind. When President Poincaré called upon the intellectual elite to contribute to the war effort with "their pens and their words," the union sacrée of scholars and writers--including Henri Bergson, Pierre Duhem, Ernest Lavisse, and Emile Durkheim--united French intellect against German Kultur. This is the first study of the power of French pens and words during and after the Great War.

Hardcover 1996

Momus

Leon Battista Alberti

Edited and translated by Sarah Knight

Edited by Virginia Brown

Momus is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the famous humanist-scientist-artist and "universal man" of the Italian Renaissance. In this dark comedy, written around 1450, Alberti charts the lively fortunes of his anti-hero Momus, the unscrupulous and vitriolic god of criticism. This edition provides a new Latin text, the first to be based on the two earliest manuscripts, both corrected by Alberti himself, and includes the first full translation into English.

Hardcover 2003

Monstrous Imagination

Marie-Hélène Huet

Hardcover 1993 / Paperback

Moscow Diary

Walter Benjamin

Translated by Richard Sieburth

Preface by Gershom Scholem

Edited by Gary Smith

The life of the literary critic and philosopher Benjamin (1892-1940) is a veritable allegory of the life of letters in the twentieth century. Benjamin's intellectual odyssey included an eventful trip to the Soviet Union. His stunning account of that journey is unique among his writings for the frank, merciless way he struggles with his motives and his conscience.

Paperback 1986 / Hardcover 1986

Mythology and the Romantic Tradition in English Poetry

Douglas Bush

A brilliant study of the continuing and changing uses of classical mythology in English poetry, this book treats most of the major and many of the minor English poets since 1680 and includes a chapter on the use of myth in American verse. It provides an illuminating overview of English poetry since the end of the Renaissance.

Hardcover 1969

The Natural Work of Art

John Anthony Williams

Paperback 1967

Nature Into Art

Carl Woodring

The nineteenth century began with reverence for nature and ended with the apotheosis of art. In this wide-ranging excursion through the literature, visual arts, and natural sciences of the era from Wordsworth to Wilde, Woodring traces shifting ideas and attitudes concerning nature, art, and the relations between the two.

Hardcover 1989

Necessary Angels

Robert Alter

In four elegant chapters, Alter explains the prismlike radiance created by the association of three modern masters, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem. The volume pinpoints the intersections of these divergent witnesses to the modern condition of doubt, the no-man's-land between traditional religion and modern secular culture.

Hardcover 1991

A New History of French Literature

Edited by Denis Hollier

This splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D. to the present decade is the most imaginative single-volume guide to the French literary tradition available in English.

Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1998

A New History of German Literature

David E. Wellbery, Editor-in-chief

Judith Ryan, General Editor

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Editor

Anton Kaes, Editor

Joseph Leo Koerner, Editor

Dorothea E. von Mücke, Editor

From the earliest magical charms and mythical sagas to the brilliance and desolation of 20th-century fiction, poetry, and film, this illuminating reference book invites readers to experience the full range of German literary culture and to investigate for themselves its disparate and unifying themes.

Hardcover 2005

Notorious Identity

Linda Charnes

Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra--these were figures of intense signification long before Shakespeare gave them new life on the stage. When he did, Linda Charnes argues, he used these legendary figures to explore a new kind of fame--notorious identity--an infamy based not on the moral and ethical "use value" of legend but on a commodification of identity itself.

Paperback 1995 / Hardcover

The Odes of John Keats

Helen Vendler

Vendler widens her exploration of lyric poetry with a new assessment of the six great odes of John Keats and in the process gives us, implicitly, a reading of Keats's whole career. She proposes that these poems, usually read separately, are imperfectly seen unless seen together--that they form a sequence in which Keats pursued a strict and profound inquiry into questions of language, philosophy, and aesthetics.

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback

On Hashish

Walter Benjamin

Edited by Howard Eiland

Introduction by Marcus Boon

Walter Benjamin's posthumously published collection of writings on hashish is a detailed blueprint for a book that was never written. A series of "protocols of drug experiments," written between 1927 and 1934, together with short prose pieces, On Hashish provides a peculiarly intimate portrait of Benjamin and of his unique form of thought.

Paperback 2006

On Histories and Stories

A. S. Byatt

In a series of essays on the complicated relations between reading, writing, and remembering, A.S. Byatt sorts the modish from the merely interesting and the truly good to arrive at a new view of British writing in our time. Whether writing about the renaissance of the historical novel, discussing her own translation of historical fact into fiction, or exploring the recent European revival of interest in myth, folklore, and fairytale, Byatt's abiding concern here is with the interplay of fiction and history.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

On or About December 1910

Peter Stansky

Drawing upon his historical and literary talents, Peter Stansky captures the dazzling world of early Bloomsbury. The picture he presents, with all its drama and detail, encompasses the conflicts and sureties of a changing world of politics, aesthetics, and character.

Paperback 1997 / Hardcover

The Open Work

Umberto Eco

Translated by Anna Cancogni

Introduction by David Robey

This book remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its striking anticipation of two major themes of contemporary literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interactive process between reader and text. The questions Eco raises, and the answers he suggests, are intertwined in the continuing debate on literature, art, and culture in general.

Hardcover 1989 / Paperback

Original Subjects

Ala A. Alryyes

Original Subjects explores the interweaving of the child-hero and the fortunes of a nation, as these are portrayed in a wide selection of novels and national narratives in the French and English traditions.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2001

PHCC, 1, 1981

Edited by James E. Doan

Edited by Cornelius G. Buttimer

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.

Paperback 2006

PHCC, 10/11, 1990 and 1991

Edited by William J. Mahon

Edited by Phillip Freeman

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.

Paperback 2006 / Hardcover 2006

PHCC, 12, 1992

Edited by Barbara Hillers

Edited by Jerry Hunter

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.

Paperback 2006 / Hardcover

PHCC, 12, 1992

Edited by Barbara Hillers

Edited by Jerry Hunter

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.

Paperback 2006 / Hardcover

PHCC, 13, 1993

Edited by Barbara Hillers

Edited by Pamela Hopkins

Edited by Jerry Hunter

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.

Paperback 2006 / Hardcover 2006

PHCC, 14, 1994

Edited by A. Hopkins

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.

Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2006

PHCC, 15, 1995

Edited by Kathryn Chadbourne

Paperback 2006 / Hardcover 2006

PHCC, 16/17, 1996 and 1997

Edited by Kathryn Chadbourne

Edited by Heather Larson

Edited by Pat Malone

Edited by Laura Radiker

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in professional academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by a team of students in the department, grown in size, and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.

Hardcover 2006

PHCC, 18/19, 1998 and 1999

Edited by Michael Linkletter

Edited by Diana Luft

Edited by Hugh Fogarty

Edited by Ian Richmond

Edited by Pat Malone

Edited by Laura Radiker

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.

Hardcover 2007

PHCC, 20/21, 2000 and 2001

Edited by Hugh Fogarty

Edited by Diana Luft

Edited by Charlene Shipman

Edited by Benjamin Bruch

Edited by Kathryn Izzo

Edited by Katharine Olson

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.

Hardcover 2007

PHCC, 22, 2002

Edited by Kathryn Izzo

Edited by Katharine Olson

Among other articles, this volume includes Toward a Breton Musical Patrimony, Paul-Andre Bempéchat; Celts and Hyperboerans, Timothy Bridgman; The Sea as an Emotional Landscape, Mairi Sine Chaimbeul.

Hardcover 2008

PHCC, 23, 2003

Edited by Bettina Kimpton

Edited by Matthew Knight

Amont other articles, this volume includes The Alans in the Iberian Peninsula and the Identification by Littleton and Malcor as the Milesians of the Lebor Gabála, Manuel Alberro; The ‘Gallic Disaster’: Did Dionysius I of Syracuse Order It?, Timothy Bridgman;.

Hardcover 2009

PHCC, 3, 1983

Edited by John T. Koch

Edited by Jean Rittmueller

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.

Paperback 2006

PHCC, 4, 1984

Edited by Paul Jefferiss

Edited by William J. Mahon

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.

Paperback 2006

PHCC, 5, 1985

Edited by Paul Jefferiss

Edited by William J. Mahon

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.

Paperback 2006

PHCC, 6/7, 1986 and 1987

Edited by Brian R. Frykenberg

Edited by Kaarina Hollo

The Harvard Celtic Colloquium was established in 1980 by two graduate students in the Harvard University Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures as a forum in which graduate students could share their work and gain experience in academia. Since then, it has been organized annually by students in the department and gained an international reputation which annually draws a diverse mix of scholars from around the world to present papers on all facets of Celtic Studies.

Paperback 2006

PHCC, 8/9, 1988 and 1999

Edited by William J. Mahon

Hardcover 2006

The Pack of Autolycus

Hyder Edward Rollins

Hardcover 1969

Pascal

Robert J. Nelson

The life of the paradoxical seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician is examined here along three axes--psychological, theological, and linguistic--to present the first rounded portrayal of the querulous, intense, ever-committed Pascal. In drawing this portrait, the author restores Pascal to the general reader after twenty years of scholarship that has embroiled this historic thinker in academic quarrels. Through the scrutiny of Pascal's biography and analysis of the entire body of his writing, Nelson reveals Pascal the man, the scientist, the theologian, and the literary genius.

Hardcover 1982

Personification and the Sublime

Steven Knapp

Eighteenth-century and Romantic readers had a peculiar habit of calling personified abstractions "sublime." This has always seemed mysterious, since the same readers so often expressed a feeling that there was something wrong with turning ideas into people--or, worse, turning people into ideas. In this wide-ranging, carefully argued study, Knapp explains the connection between personification and the aesthetics of the sublime.

Hardcover 1985

Petrarch’s Lyric Poems

Francesco Petrarch

Translated by Robert M. Durling

For teachers and students of Petrarch, Durling's edition of the poems has become the standard one. Readers have praised the translation as both graceful and accurate, conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying. The literalness of the prose translation makes this beautiful book especially useful to students who lack a full command of Italian. And students reading the verse in the original will find here an authoritative text.

Hardcover 1976 / Paperback

Philosophical Writing

John J. Richetti

Hardcover 1983

The Phoenix Nest, 1593

Hyder Edward Rollins

Hardcover 1959

Platonic Theology, Volume 1, Books I-IV

Marsilio Ficino

Translated by Michael J. B. Allen

Edited by James Hankins

Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This work, translated into English for the first time in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.

Hardcover 2001

Platonic Theology, Volume 2, Books V-VIII

Marsilio Ficino

Translated by Michael J. B. Allen

Edited by James Hankins

Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This work, translated into English for the first time in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.

Hardcover 2002

Platonic Theology, Volume 3, Books IX-XI

Marsilio Ficino

Translated by Michael J. B. Allen

Edited by James Hankins

Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His Platonic evangelizing was eminently successful and widely influential, and his Platonic Theology, translated into English for the first time in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.

Hardcover 2003

Poems

Cristoforo Landino

Edited and translated by Mary P. Chatfield

Cristoforo Landino (1424–1498) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance. His most substantial work of poetry was his Three Books on Xandra. Also included in this volume is the Carmina Varia, a collection whose centerpiece is a group of elegies directed to the Venetian humanist Bernardo Bembo.

Hardcover 2008

The Poet as Mythmaker

George G. Grabowicz

Hardcover 1982

The Poet's Work

Leonard Nathan

Arthur Quinn

Paperback 1991

The Poetry of George Herbert

Helen Vendler

Hardcover 1975

Poets of Reality

J. Hillis Miller

Hardcover 1965

Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture

Dudley Andrew

Steven Ungar

Andrew and Ungar apply an evocative "poetics of culture" to capture the complex atmospherics of Paris in the 1930s. Rather than a straight story of the Popular Front, they have produced something closer to the format of an illustrated newspaper whose multiple columns represent the breadth of urban life during this critical decade at the end of the Third French Republic.

Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2008

Post Scripts

Vincent Kaufmann

Translated by Deborah Treisman

Hardcover

The Practice of Diaspora

Brent Hayes Edwards

A pathbreaking work of scholarship that will reshape our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance, The Practice of Diaspora revisits black transnational culture in the 1920s and 1930s, paying particular attention to links between intellectuals in New York and their Francophone counterparts in Paris. Brent Edwards suggests that diaspora is less a historical condition than a set of practices: the claims, correspondences, and collaborations through which black intellectuals pursue a variety of international alliances.

Paperback 2003 / Hardcover 2003

Private Theatricals

Nina Auerbach

Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal.

Hardcover 1990

The Problem of Shape in The Prelude

Jonathan R. Grandine

Paperback 1968

Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases from English Writings Mainly before 1500

Bartlett Jere Whiting

This book is a collection of English proverbs, sentences, and proverbial phrases from the Middle Ages. The material is drawn from an exhaustive examination of the surviving texts, mainly printed ones but some still in manuscript.

Hardcover 1968

Real and Imagined Worlds

Morroe Berger

Hardcover

Renaissance Genres

Edited by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Hardcover 1986 / Paperback

Resemblance and Disgrace

Helen Deutsch

By restoring the poet's image to view against the cultural background that branded it as monstrous, Deutsch recasts Pope's literary career as a form of monstrous embodiment--a stamping of his own image on fragments of the cultural past.

Hardcover 1996

Revising Shakespeare

Grace Ioppolo

Hardcover 1992

Rewiewing Liberty

Joan S. Bennett

Hardcover 1988

The Ridiculous to the Delightful

Robert Nicholas Reeves

Paperback 1974

Rimbaud's Theatre of the Self

James Lawler

In a new interpretation of a poet who has swayed the course of modern poetry--in France and elsewhere--Lawler focuses on what he demonstrates is the crux of Rimbaud's imagination: the masks and adopted personas with which he regularly tested his identity and his art.

Hardcover 1992

Romantic Rebels

Kenneth Neill Cameron

The rebels of the Romantic period speak more directly to the issues of today than any other group of writers of the past. This collection provides a cohesive picture of some of the Romantics whose lives interlocked in the early 1800's.

Hardcover 1973

Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder

Elizabeth K. Helsinger

Helsinger here explores the profound changes Ruskin induced in the way nineteenth-century viewers looked at nature and at art. She argues that Ruskin transformed the artist- or poet-oriented aesthetics of romanticism into a beholder- or reader-oriented criticism. Combining critical attention to Ruskin's prose with her own wide-ranging scholarship, Helsinger places Ruskin's perceptual reforms within previously unexplored intellectual and cultural contexts.

Hardcover 1982

Rus’ Restored

Translated with commentary by David Frick

Meletij Smotryc’kyj

A prominent religious figure and polemicist, Meletij Smotryc'kyj was caught up in the struggle between Orthodox and Uniate beliefs. His polemics served as the cornerstone of the Orthodox response to the Polish-Lithuanian Reformation and Counter-Reformation. He later argued for a new unity between the eastern and western Churches. The works collected in this volume, written over a period of twenty years, offer unique insight into the elite of early modern Rus' and their place in the Polis