American Literature to 1900
By Lewis Leary (NHC Fellow, 1978–79)
Literature
Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Republican Plan, 1755-1825
By John Seelye (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) This book, the second volume in Seelye's series on the rivers of America in the American imagination, explores how George Washington's vision of a "more perfect union" for America–based upon the linking of the nation's waterways by technical means–was carried out. The first volume, Prophetic Waters, dealt with the … Continued
Chaucer and His French Contemporaries: Natural Music in the Fourteenth Century
By James I. Wimsatt (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) In this provocative and highly acclaimed study, a distinguished Chaucerian provides the first comprehensive analysis of the contemporary French influence on Chaucer. Bringing to the subject his expertise in both Chaucer and fourteenth-century French literature, James I. Wimsatt reveals the range and complexity of Chaucer's literary and personal … Continued
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
By James Knowlson (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) Damned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize–winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett’s chosen biographer and a leading authority on Beckett, vividly re-creates Beckett’s life from his birth in a rural suburb of Dublin in 1906 to … Continued
Einführung in die anglistisch-amerikanistische Literaturwissenschaft = Introduction to English-American literary studies
By Mario Klarer (NHC Fellow, 1995–96; 2000–01) This introduction provides a brief and precise introduction to the basics of studying English-American literary studies: the key approaches to literary theory, the genres of novel, poetry, drama and film, as well as the central epochs of literary history are presented in an overview. The chapters on the literature … Continued
Feminism and Institutions: Dialogues on Feminist Theory
Edited by Linda S. Kauffman (NHC Fellow, 1983–84)
Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life
By Robert Bernard Martin (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) Probably no English poet of the 19th century is today so widely read or greatly loved as Gerard Manley Hopkins. Yet in his lifetime he was almost entirely unpublished, and only a handful of his close friends knew that he wrote poetry at all.
Hugo, Pasternak, Brecht, Césaire
Edited by Ruth Morse (NHC Fellow, 2012–13) Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Victor-Marie Hugo, François-Victor Hugo, Boris Leonidivich Pasternak, Bertolt Brecht and Aimé Césaire … Continued
Kindly Similitude: Marriage and Family in Piers Plowman
By M. Teresa Tavormina (NHC Fellow, 1983–84) Kindly Similitude is the first study to offer a detailed reading of the many passages in Piers Plowman A, B, and C concerned with marriage and family, and to place them within the frameworks of contemporary social history, law, theology, exegesis, and literature. The author shows how Langland draws on the … Continued
Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars
Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (NHC Fellow, 1988–90) Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William F. Buckley to rail against Stanley Fish and Catherine … Continued