By Paul K. Saint-Amour (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) We know that trauma can leave syndromes in its wake. But can the anticipation of violence be a form of violence as well? Tense Future argues that it can-that twentieth-century war technologies and practices, particularly the aerial bombing of population centers, introduced non-combatants to a coercive and traumatizing … Continued
By Samuel Taylor ColeridgeEdited by Carl Woodring (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) Coleridge’s nephew, son-in-law, and first editor, Henry Nelson Coleridge, began at the end of 1822 a record of Coleridge’s remarks as a way of preparing an anthology of the interests and thought of the great poet and critic. His manuscripts, gathered to form the major … Continued
By Ralph W. V. Elliott (NHC Fellow, 1980–81)
Edited by Trudier Harris (NHC Fellow, 1996–97; NHC Fellow, 2018–19), Minrose C. Gwin, and William L. Andrews The Literature of the American South reconsiders southern writing from its seventeenth-century origins to its flourishing present. Featuring the works of eighty-seven classic, contemporary, and newly recovered writers of all genres–poetry, short fiction, drama, novels, autobiography, criticism, sermons, … Continued
Edited by Robert R. Edwards (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) and Stephen Spector (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) In this volume a variety of perspectives reevaluate the nature of friendship, desire, and the olde daunce of love in the Middle Ages. Challenging earlier scholarly notions about medieval marriage, this book suggests and explores the legitimacy of marital friendship, affection, and mutuality. … Continued
By Marcia L. Colish (NHC Fellow, 1981–82)
Edited by Lydia H. Liu (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) The problem of translation has become increasingly central to critical reflections on modernity and its universalizing processes. Approaching translation as a symbolic and material exchange among peoples and civilizations—and not as a purely linguistic or literary matter, the essays in Tokens of Exchange focus on China and its interactions … Continued
By Andrew Escobedo (NHC Fellow, 2009–10) Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained range of action typical of literary personifications. Yet no commentator before the eighteenth century suggests that prosopopoeia signals a form of reduced agency. Andrew Escobedo argues that premodern writers, including Spenser, … Continued
By James JoyceTranslated by Jin Di (NHC Fellow, 1992–93)
Scientific research supported a literary impulse to reconnect black Americans to their African roots. In the early twentieth century African Americans looked for a history that went beyond their time in the United States, beyond slavery. The Harlem Renaissance placed Africa at the center of the African American cultural landscape, and there it remains today.