By Suzanne Raitt (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) May Sinclair (1863-1946) was a bestselling novelist who was one of the first British women to go out to the Belgian front in 1914. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian draws on newly discovered manuscripts to tell the story of this woman whose emotional isolation bears witness to the great … Continued
By Kellie Robertson (NHC Fellow, 2011–12) What does it mean to speak for nature? Contemporary environmental critics warn that giving a voice to nonhuman nature reduces it to a mere echo of our own needs and desires; they caution that it is a perverse form of anthropocentrism. And yet nature's voice proved a powerful and … Continued
By Theresa Braunschneider (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) Before 1660, English readers and theatergoers had never heard of a "coquette"; by the early 1700s, they could hardly watch a play, read a poem, or peruse a newspaper without encountering one. Why does British literature of this period pay so much attention to vain and flirtatious young women? Our … Continued
By Alexandra K. Wettlaufer (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) Women in the studio: representing professional identity — "Why are you no longer my brothers?" The Fraternité des arts and the female artist in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's L'atelier d'un peintre — Sisterhood in/as the studio: Anna Mary Howitt's sisters in art — Visualizing imagined communities: lessons of the female … Continued
By Murray Roston (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture, exploring by a close reading of the texts … Continued
By M. C. Bradbrook (NHC Fellow, 1978–79; 1980–81)
By Ann Douglas (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) Terrible Honesty is the biography of a decade, a portrait of the soul of a generation – based on the lives and work of more than a hundred men and women. In a strikingly original interpretation that brings the Jazz Age to life in a wholly new way, Ann … Continued
Edited by Carl Woodring (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) and James Shapiro A sweeping compendium of British verse from Old and Middle English to the present, including the best work of poets from every corner of the British Isles, The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive single volume available. Carl Woodring and James Shapiro, … Continued
By John N. Wall (NHC Fellow, 1980–81; 2013–14) and David Siegenthaler
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