An Introduction to Literary Studies
By Mario Klarer (NHC Fellow, 1995–96; 2000–01)
Literature
Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture
By Hortense J. Spillers (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Black, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspiring black critics of the past twenty years. Spanning her work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly poststructuralist approach to African American literature, and … Continued
Christina Rossetti in Context
By Antony H. Harrison (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) Applying the methodologies of the new historicism, reception theory, and feminist criticism, Harrison provides striking interpretations of Christina Rossetti's poetry. He examines her work in relation to the traditions of medieval and Renaissance love poetry, Romanticism, Tractarianism, and Aestheticism; establishes her place among the pre-Raphaelites; relates her writing … Continued
Deeper Than Reason: Emotion and Its Role in Literature, Music, and Art
By Jenefer Robinson (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) Deeper than Reason takes the insights of modern psychological and neuroscientific research on the emotions and brings them to bear on questions about our emotional involvement with the arts. Robinson begins by laying out a theory of emotion, one that is supported by the best evidence from current empirical work … Continued
Elinor James: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 11, 1st Edition
Edited by Paula McDowell (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) This volume makes available for the first time the complete surviving works of the London printer-author Elinor James (c.1645-1719). Uniquely in the history of early modern women, James wrote, printed and distributed more than ninety pamphlets and broadsides addressing political, religious and commercial concerns. Written over a period … Continued
Forged: Writing in the Name of God-Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
By Bart D. Ehrman (NHC Fellow, 2009–10; 2018–19) Bart D. Ehrman, the New York Times bestselling author of Jesus, Interrupted and God’s Problem reveals which books in the Bible’s New Testament were not passed down by Jesus’s disciples, but were instead forged by other hands—and why this centuries-hidden scandal is far more significant than many scholars are willing to admit. A … Continued
Gossip
By Patricia Meyer Spacks (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1982–83; 1988–89) Explores the nature, morality, and aesthetics of gossip; examines gossip in history and the psychology of gossip; and analyzes gossip–as subject and literary technique–in plays, letters, biographies, and novels.
Imperial Masochism: British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class
By John Kucich (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) British imperialism’s favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But real British conquests also generated a surprising cultural obsession with suffering, sacrifice, defeat, and melancholia. “There was,” writes John Kucich, “seemingly a different crucifixion scene marking the historical gateway to each colonial theater.” In Imperial Masochism, Kucich reveals the … Continued
Latin Poetry
Edited and translated by D. Mark Possanza (NHC Fellow, 2015–16) and Dennis Looney Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), one of Italy’s greatest poets, was a leading figure of sixteenth-century Italian humanism. After some years working in the household of Cardinal Ippolito d’Este, to whom he dedicated his dazzling romance epic Orlando Furioso (1516), Ariosto settled in Ferrara under the patronage … Continued
Making Americans: An Essay on Individualism and Money
By Quentin Anderson (NHC Fellow, 1979–80)