Shores and Headlands
By Emily R. Grosholz (NHC Fellow, 1985–86)
Literature
The “Writing” of Modern Life: The Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940
Edited by Elizabeth K. Helsinger (NHC Fellow, 1997–98; 2007–08) What is it about etching that renders it—according to both the poet-critic Charles Baudelaire and the visionary artist Samuel Palmer—a medium of writing? And, moreover, what makes etching equally adaptable to the expression of both memory and modernity? The “Writing” of Modern Life examines British, French, and American … Continued
The Complete Works of François Rabelais
By François RabelaisTranslated by Donald M. Frame (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) Rip-roaring and rib-tickling, François Rabelais's irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This complete translation by Donald Frame, helpfully annotated for the nonspecialist, is a masterpiece in its own right, bringing … Continued
The Homoerotics of Orientalism
By Joseph Allen Boone (NHC Fellow, 2009–10) One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism. … Continued
The Making of This Side of Paradise
By James L. W. West, III (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) The story of how Fitzgerald wrote and published the book is fascinating. In The Making of "This Side of Paradise", James West studies the inception, composition, publication, and textual history of the novel. He traces its growth from its earliest version, entitled "The Romantic Egotist," to its … Continued
The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism
By Jonathan Sachs (NHC Fellow, 2014–15) Anxieties about decline were a prominent feature of British public discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. These anxieties were borne out repeatedly in books and periodicals, pamphlets and poems. Tracing the reciprocal development of Romantic-era Britain's rapidly expanding literary and market cultures through the lens of … Continued
The Union of Words and Music in Medieval Poetry
Edited by James I. Wimsatt (NHC Fellow, 1987–88), Rebecca A. Baltzer, and Thomas Cable In these essays, five noted scholars draw upon the insights of musicology, philology, linguistics, and metrics to illuminate central aspects of the relationship between poetry and music in the Middle Ages.
Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture in France and England, 1600-1800
By Julie Candler Hayes (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture examines the evolution of neoclassical translation theory from its origins among the first generation of French Academicians to its subsequent importation to England by royalist exiles, its development under the influence of such translator-critics as John Dryden and Anne Dacier, and its evolution in response … Continued
West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns
By Jane Tompkins (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) A leading figure in the debate over the literary canon, Jane Tompkins was one of the first to point to the ongoing relevance of popular women's fiction in the 19th century, long overlooked or scorned by literary critics. Now, in West of Everything, Tompkins shows how popular novels and films … Continued
A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film
By Joseph Luzzi (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) A Cinema of Poetry brings Italian film studies into dialogue with fields outside its usual purview by showing how films can contribute to our understanding of aesthetic questions that stretch back to Homer. Joseph Luzzi considers the relation between film and literature, especially the cinematic adaptation of literary sources and, … Continued