By Niccolò MachiavelliTranslated by Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. (NHC Fellow, 1981–82; 1982–83) The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more recently been defended … Continued
By John N. Morris (NHC Fellow, 1996–97)
Edited by Susan Wolf (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 2012–13) and Christopher Grau
By M. C. Bradbrook (NHC Fellow, 1978–79; 1980–81) Focusing on women both as creative writers and as a source of literary inspiration, this authoritative volume chronicles the growing importance of woman’s place in the development of literature. Beginning with the novelóa form at which women have excelledóBradbrook offers a rare insight into the lives and … Continued
By Morris Dickstein (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) In a famous passage in The Red and the Black, the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway. In the twentieth century this was derided as a naïve notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented with creative forms of invention and dislocation. Deconstructive … Continued
By Linda Dégh (NHC Fellow, 1990–91)
By Susan L. Einbinder (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs. With their defiant deaths, the medieval Jewish martyr was born. With the literary commemoration of the victims, Jewish martyrology … Continued
By Martin Meisel (NHC Fellow, 1983–84)
By David Ellis (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Originally published in 1998, the final volume of the Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence chronicles his progress from leaving Europe in 1922 to his death in Venice in 1930. Based on much previously unfamiliar material, it describes his travels in Ceylon, Australia, the USA and Mexico in an … Continued
By Charlotte Sussman (NHC Fellow, 2003–04) This engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary history. Rather than simply providing a chronological survey of the era, this book analyzes the impact of significant cultural developments on literary themes and forms – including urbanization, colonial, … Continued