Edited by Emory Elliott (NHC Fellow, 1979–80) This award-winning series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of teachers and scholars. It systematically presents career biographies of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types … Continued
By Eliza Richards (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) During the U.S. Civil War, a combination of innovative technologies and catastrophic events stimulated the development of news media into a central cultural force. Reacting to the dramatic increases in news reportage and circulation, poets responded to an urgent need to make their work immediately relevant to current events. … Continued
By Murray Roston (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) Continuing with the theme of his work Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, Murray Roston applies to a later period the same critical principle: that for each generation there exists a central complex of inherited ideas and urgent contemporary concerns to which each creative artist and writer responds … Continued
Edited by David Ellis (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) and Ornella De Zordo This set of volumes on D.H. Lawrence is part of the "Critical Assessments of Writers in English" series, the aim of which is to provide complete collections of previously published, formative critical assessments covering the whole work of individual writers. They should be useful … Continued
By Lewis M. Dabney (NHC Fellow, 2001–02) From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilson went on to write three classics of literary and intellectual history … Continued
By Alastair Minnis (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) Can an outrageously immoral man or a scandalous woman teach morality or lead people to virtue? Does personal fallibility devalue one's words and deeds? Is it possible to separate the private from the public, to segregate individual failing from official function? Chaucer addressed these perennial issues through two problematic … Continued
Edited by Sara S. Poor (NHC Fellow, 2017–18), Alison L. Beringer, and Olga V. Trokhimenko While Gender Studies has made its mark on literary studies, much scholarship on the German Middle Ages is largely inaccessible to the Anglo-American audience. With gender at its core as a category of analysis, Gender Bonds, Gender Binds uniquely opens … Continued
By Stanley Fish (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Stanley Fish’s Surprised by Sin, first published in 1967, set a new standard for Milton criticism and established its author 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 … Continued
By M. C. Bradbrook (NHC Fellow, 1978–79; 1980–81) Little has been known about Webster until quite recently when his family origins were traced in the London parish of St Sepulchrewithout-Newgate. Now we know that his father was a coachmaker and that he lived with his family in Nag's Head Alley. In this, the first full … Continued
Edited by Helena Goscilo (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) One of the most remarkable changes taking place in Russia after the break-up of the Soviet empire is the radical transformation of Russian women's culture. Despite a historically male-dominated culture, gender awareness has flourished in the 1990's, and is reflected in a new body of women's literature and … Continued