By Margreta de Grazia (NHC Fellow, 1982–83) This study challenges traditional treatments of Shakespeare through a study of their textual imperatives in the late eighteenth century. The examination of earlier treatments demonstrates that concepts now basic to Shakespeare were once largely irrelevant. Only with Edmond Malone's 1790 Shakespeare edition do such criteria as authenticity, historical … Continued
By Elżbieta Skłodowska (NHC Fellow, 1989–90)
Edited by Victor H. Mair (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Including works of varied genres from fiction and poetry to folk stories and elegies, travelogues and jokes to criticism and theory, this wide-ranging collection brings together more than two thousand years of great works in one portable volume.
Edited and translated by Thorkild Jacobsen (NHC Fellow, 1986–87; 1988–89) The eminent Assyriologist Thorkild Jacobsen, author of Treasures of Darkness, here presents translations of ancient Sumerian poems written near the end of the third millennium b.c.e., including a number of compositions that have never before been published in translation. The themes developed in the poems—quite … Continued
By Gerard Passannante (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of two fundamental opposites: atoms, as the philosopher Epicurus theorized, intrinsically unchangeable and moving … Continued
Edited by M. W. Haslam (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) Known in the Dynastic period as Per-medjed, Oxyrhynchus (City of the Sharp-nosed Fish) rose to prominence under Egypt's Hellenistic and Roman rulers. It was a prosperous regional capital, reckoned the third city of Egypt, lying roughly 300km south of Alexandria. In 1896-97 two British archaeologists began to dig around … Continued
By Kate Flint (NHC Fellow, 2007–08; 2015–16) This book takes a fascinating look at the iconic figure of the Native American in the British cultural imagination from the Revolutionary War to the early twentieth century, and examining how Native Americans regarded the British, as well as how they challenged their own cultural image in Britain … Continued
By John N. Wall (NHC Fellow, 1980–81; 2013–14)
By Denis Donoghue (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1991–92; 1995–96; 1997–1998) Only the most naive or tendentious among us would deny the extent and intensity of suffering in the world. Can one hold, consistently with the common view of suffering in the world, that there is an omniscient, omnipotent, perfectly good God? This book argues that one … Continued
By Kejia Yuan (NHC Fellow, 1981–82)