By Robert Mitchell (NHC Fellow, 2012–13) Experimental Life establishes the multiple ways in which Romantic authors appropriated the notion of experimentation from the natural sciences. Winner of the Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, BSLS Book Prize of the British Society for Literature and Science If the objective … Continued
Edited by Linda S. Kauffman (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) The political force of feminism cannot be separated from the theories which give it that force. an effective feminist literary criticism must negotiate its relationship to the dominant male voice of traditional practices. Can it change that voice for new ends, or is it robbed of purpose … Continued
By Jeremy D. Popkin (NHC Fellow, 2000–01; 2012–13) Though history and autobiography both claim to tell true stories about the past, historians have traditionally rejected first-person accounts as subjective and therefore unreliable. What then, asks Jeremy D. Popkin in History, Historians, and Autobiography, are we to make of the ever-increasing number of professional historians who are … Continued
Edited by Annabel Patterson (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) This collection of selected writings represents the best of recent critical work on Milton. The essays cover all stages of his career, from the early poems through to the later poems of the Restoration period, especially Paradise Lost. Professor Patterson includes British and American critics such as Michael … Continued
By Mario Klarer (NHC Fellow, 1995–96; 2000–01) US literary history describes literary creation in the North American areas of what is now the United States, from its beginnings in the Age of Discovery to the present day. In this overview, Mario Klarer shows how an initially imported colonial perspective developed into an increasingly independent literary … Continued
Edited by Alison Keith (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) and Stephen Rupp This collection of fifteen essays examines the literary influence of Ovid’s Metamorphoses from the late Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. Such notable authors as Christine de Pizan, Gower, Chaucer, Petrarch, Scève, Cervantes, Góngora, and Milton are explored. By concentrating on Ovid’s most influential work, … Continued
By Florence Dore (NHC Fellow, 2008–09; 2016–17) The 1950s witnessed both the birth of both rock and roll and the creation of Southern literature as we know it. Around the time that Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley put their electric spin on Southern vernacular ballads, a canonical group of white American authors native to rock’s … Continued
By Gerald F. Else (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) This book is a guide to the poetics of the two Greek fountainheads of Western literary theory. Part I traces the development of Plato's great themes of inspiration and imitation but makes no attempt to reduce his disparate statements to a system. Part II demonstrates that Aristotle's Poetics embodies a … Continued
By Annabel Patterson (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Reading Holinshed’s Chronicles is the first major study of the greatest of the Elizabethan chronicles. Holinshed’s Chronicles—a massive history of England, Scotland, and Ireland—has been traditionally read as the source material for many of Shakespeare’s plays or as an archaic form of history-writing. Annabel Patterson insists that the Chronicles be read in their … Continued
By Trudier Harris (NHC Fellow, 1996–97; NHC Fellow, 2018–19) Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature posits strength as a frequently contradictory and damaging trait for black women characters in several literary works of the twentieth century. Authors of these works draw upon popular images of African American women in producing what … Continued