By Todd W. Reeser (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture proposes a definition of gender based on a ternary model in which moderation and masculinity are inextricably linked. Like the Aristotelian virtue of moderation, which requires the presence of excess and lack in order to exist, what Todd W. Reeser terms "moderate masculinity" … Continued
By Olga Gonçalves (NHC Fellow, 1980–81)
By Piotr Sommer (NHC Fellow, 2004–05) Thematically, these sketches are linked by the subject of my interest – first of all, the contemporary languages of the poem, so probably "poetry". Even when the commentary does not stick too closely to the poem, and the poem itself, as is customary, reveals its "extra-poetic" elements and adjacencies. They are … Continued
By Mark Turner (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) The great adventure of modern cognitive science, the discovery of the human mind, will fundamentally revise our concept of what it means to be human. Drawing together the classical conception of the language arts, the Renaissance sense of scientific discovery, and the modern study of the mind, Mark Turner … Continued
By Lawrence Lipking (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) He was a servant to the public, a writer for hire. He was a hero, an author adding to the glory of his nation. But can a writer be both hack and hero? The career of Samuel Johnson, recounted here by Lawrence Lipking, proves that the two can be one. … Continued
By Andrew P. Debicki (NHC Fellow, 1979–80; 1992–93) Twentieth-century Spanish poetry has received comparatively little attention from critics writing in English. Andrew Debicki now presents the first English-language history published in the United States to examine the sweep of modern Spanish verse. More important, he is the first to situate Spanish poetry in the context … Continued
Edited by William W. Hallo (NHC Fellow, 1987–88), Bruce William Jones, and Gerald L. Mattingly Interdisciplinary studies dealing with various aspects of the Hebrew Bible in relation to their literary, cultural, and historical contexts, especially the context of ancient Mesopotamia.
By Leonard V. Smith (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The Embattled Self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the … Continued
Edited by Jean Bethke Elshtain (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 2000–01) Jane Addams was a prolific and elegant writer. Her twelve books consist largely of published essays, but to appreciate her life work one must also read her previously uncollected speeches and editorials. This artfully compiled collection begins with Addams’s youthful Junior Class Oration on women as … Continued
By Maud Ellmann (NHC Fellow, 2007–08; 2017–18) One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book. In sinuous readings of Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she examines the interconnections between developing technological networks in modernity and the … Continued