Peter J. Schwartz. After Jena: Goethe’s “Elective Affinities” and the End of the Old Regime
After Jena is the first scholarly work in English to set Goethe’s influential and controversial novel Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809) squarely within the turbulent time in which it was written. Adducing evidence from many spheres and applying the tools of several disciplines, Peter J. Schwartz shows how Elective Affinities reflects changes in marriage, property […]
New publication: The Necklace of the Pleiades
This volume collects 24 essays (three of them in Persian) on Persian literature, culture and religion by Persian scholars from around the world, presented to Professor Heshmat Moayyad of the University of Chicago, on his 80th birthday, in recognition and gratitude for his long and fruitful career as scholar and teacher in the field of […]
Persian poet enters English
The first English-language edition and translation of the work of Rudaki, known as the father of Persian poetry, will appear with Purdue University Press this spring under the title Father of Songs: Rudaki and his Poetry. It is the work of Dr. Sassan Tabatabai, a scholar of medieval Persian literature who began teaching First-Year Persian […]
Catherine Yeh. Shanghai Love: Courtesans, Intellectuals, and Entertainment Culture, 1850 – 1910
In this fascinating book, Catherine Yeh, Associate Professor of Chinese, explores the Shanghai entertainment world at the close of the Qing dynasty. Established in the 1850s outside of the old walled city, the Shanghai Foreign Settlements were administered by Westerners and so were not subject to the strict authority of the Chinese government. At the […]