Edited by Carl Woodring (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) and James Shapiro The Columbia Anthology pays tribute to the renowned works that any include–Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Eliot, Auden. But the book also resurrects the voices of excellent poets, particularly women–such as Queen Elizabeth I, Anne Ingram, and Christina Rossetti. Unencumbered by extensive notes that divert … Continued
By Richard Newhauser (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) The history of avarice as the deadliest vice in western Europe has been said to begin in earnest only with the rise of capitalism or, earlier, the rise of a money economy. In this first full-length study of the early history of greed, Richard Newhauser shows that avaritia, the … Continued
By Douglas Porch (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) The legend of Beau Gaste and the hell-raising, hard-drinking, long-suffering, loyal Legionnaires has been immortalized by countless novels and Hollywood movies. Here Douglas Porch examines the Legion myth and goes beyond it to explore the Legion's mystique and describe its performance from its founding in 1831 to today.
By Bertram Wyatt-Brown (NHC Fellow, 1989–90; 1998–99) The novels of Walker Percy–The Moviegoer, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few–have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps, that he could have created. Two centuries of wealth, literary accomplishment, political leadership, depression, … Continued
By John Opie (NHC Fellow, 1980–81) This book provides fascinating insights into how present-day American land legislation has evolved. In doing so the author identifies the many problems that the family farmer has had to face over the past two centuries at the hands of the weather, unstable product prices, and politicians.
By Christopher S. Celenza (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) In The Lost Italian Renaissance, historian and literary scholar Christopher Celenza argues that serious interest in the intellectual life of Renaissance Italy can be reinvigorated—and the nature of the Renaissance itself reconceived—by recovering a major part of its intellectual and cultural activity that has been largely ignored since the … Continued
By Caroline Winterer (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Overturning the widely held belief that classical learning and political ideals were relevant only to men, she follows the lives of four generations of … Continued
By Linda Colley (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman’s extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of Elizabeth Marsh, one of the most distinctive travelers of her time, but also opens a window onto a radically transforming world.Marsh was conceived in Jamaica, lived in London, … Continued
By Jane Turner Censer (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) This impressively researched book tells the important but little-known story of elite southern white women’s successful quest for a measure of self-reliance and independence between antebellum strictures and the restored patriarchy of Jim Crow. Profusely illustrated with the experiences of fascinating women in Virginia and North Carolina, it … Continued
By Eleanor Winsor Leach (NHC Fellow, 1992–93) Eleanor Winsor Leach offers a new interpretation of Roman painting as found in domestic spaces of the elite classes of ancient Rome. Leach contends that the painted images reflect the codes of communication embedded in upper class life, such as the theatricality expected of those leading public lives, … Continued