The Romantic Body: Love and Sexuality in Keats, Wordsworth, and Blake
By Jean H. Hagstrum (NHC Fellow, 1985–86; 1986–87)
Literature
Thomas Jefferson: Writings
Edited by Merrill D. Peterson (NHC Fellow, 1980–81) Now fully represented in this Library of America volume is the most comprehensive testimony of the writings of our third president and foremost spokesperson for democracy. Thomas Jefferson, a brilliant political thinker, is perhaps best known for the Declaration of Independence, but he was a man of … Continued
Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity
By U. C. Knoepflmacher (NHC Fellow, 1995–96)
Yeats’s Vision Papers. Vol. 1, The Automatic Script, 5 November 1917-18 June 1918
By W. B. YeatsEdited by George Mills Harper (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) A three-volume edition of the collected papers and notebooks which comprise the "automatic writing" of W.B.Yeats. This material, which spans the years between 1917 and 1920, contains Yeats' thoughts concerning literature and art, which in turn, comprises his "vision".
A Prayer for My Daughter
By William Butler YeatsTranslated by Kejia Yuan (NHC Fellow, 1981–82)
American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology
Edited by Benjamin Harshav (NHC Fellow, 1981–82), Kathryn Hellerstein, Brian McHale, and Anita Norich This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the most coherent segment of twentieth-century American literature not written in English. The range of American Yiddish Poetry runs the gamut from individualistic verse of alienation in the modern metropolis, responses … Continued
Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts
By Peter T. Struck (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and theorists who invented the … Continued
Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy
By David Wallace (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) This study of Chaucer's poetry and prose incorporates approaches gleaned from modern Marxist historiography, gender theory, and cultural studies. It presents an articulation of Chaucerian polity through analyses of art, architecture, city and country, household space, guild and mercantile cultures, as well as literary texts. The author argues that … Continued
Daughters of Time: Creating Woman’s Voice in Southern Story
By Lucinda H. MacKethan (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) Drawing upon letters, autobiographies, and novels, Daughters of Time examines the strategies that various southern women writers have used to create their own "voice," their own unique expression of mind and selfhood. Lucinda H. MacKethan shows that, despite the constraining and muting effects of the South's historically patriarchal society, the … Continued
Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary
By N. Katherine Hayles (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) A visible presence for some two decades, electronic literature has already produced many works that deserve the rigorous scrutiny critics have long practiced with print literature. Only now, however, with Electronic Literature by N. Katherine Hayles, do we have the first systematic survey of the field and an … Continued