Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre,…
The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration for a generation of modernists. Drawing on examples from literature, […]
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Ghost in a Red Hat
In her fifth book of poetry, Rosanna Warren explores the political and the personal through myth, history, elegy, and erotic […]
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The Quest for God and the Good: World Phil…
Diana Lobel takes readers on a journey across Eastern and Western philosophical and religious traditions to discover a beauty and […]
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What about Darwin?
The book traces the impact of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution on the cultures of England, the United States, and […]
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Wiener Chaos: Moments, Cumulants and Diagr…
The concept of Wiener chaos generalizes to an infinite-dimensional setting the properties of orthogonal polynomials associated with probability distributions on […]
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Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic…
Americans often look back on Paris between the world wars as a charming escape from the enduring inequalities and reactionary […]
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The American Intellectual Tradition
Revised and updated, the 6th edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant […]
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Mozart: An Introduction to the Music, the…
Mozart: An Introduction to the Music, the Man, and the Myths explores in detail 20 of the composer’s major works […]
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The Quickening
The novel follows two fictional Iowa farm women, isolated and very different neighbors who face a series of hardships together. […]
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Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob L…
Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills […]
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On the Edge of the Cold War
In this book, Igor Lukes illuminates the end of World War II and the early stages of the Cold War […]
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Constituting Old Age in Early Modern Engli…
In this book, Christopher Martin examines how, contrary to received impressions, writers and thinkers of the era—working in the shadow […]