By René PhilombeTranslated by Richard Bjornson (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) This collection contains affectionate and witty pieces that offer a socially critical and humanistic portrait of daily life in the cities and small towns of West Africa.
Edited by Kate Flint (NHC Fellow, 2007–08; 2015–16) This collaborative History aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on … Continued
By Robert ter Horst (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) The Fortunes of the Novel examines the early emergence of the novel as a genre in Spain and its subsequent rise in England. Until the sixteenth century, poetic space had never been occupied by material concerns such as hunger, which had, in fact, been disvalued and rigorously excluded from … Continued
By Norman Sherry (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) Unquestionably one of the greatest novelists of his time, Graham Greene had always guarded his privacy, remaining aloof, mysterious and unpredictable. Nonetheless, he took the surprising step of allowing Norman Sherry complete access to letter and diaries, and gave his consent to this full and frank biography in three … Continued
Edited by Rivi Handler-Spitz (NHC Fellow, 2020–21), Pauline C. Lee, and Haun Saussy Iconoclastic scholar Li Zhi (1527–1602) was a central figure in the cultural world of the late Ming dynasty. His provocative and controversial words and actions shaped print culture, literary practice, attitudes toward gender, and perspectives on Buddhism and the afterlife. Although banned, … Continued
Edited by R. W. B. Lewis (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) In The Selected Short Stories of Edith Wharton, R.W.B. Lewis, Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, has culled twenty-one of her best stories, here available in a single volume for the first time.
By Lilian R. Furst (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) Through the Lens of the Reader is a sequence of ten essays exploring European narrative from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It covers a wide spectrum of authors ranging from Goethe through Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, George Eliot, Henry James to Rilke, Thomas Mann, and Kafka. The essays are … Continued
Edited by Herbert F. Tucker (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) and Dorothy Mermin
By W. B. YeatsEdited by George Mills Harper (NHC Fellow, 1981–82)
By Tina Lu (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) Described as “all under Heaven,” the Chinese empire might have extended infinitely, covering all worlds and cultures. That ideology might have been convenient for the state, but what did late imperial people really think about the scope and limits of the human community? Writers of late imperial fiction and … Continued