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Music and Conceptualization
This book is a philosophical study of the relations between hearing and thinking about music. The central problem it addresses is as follows: how is...
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Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace
Conventional literary history has virtually ignored the role of newspaper syndicates in publishing some of the most famous nineteenth-century...
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New Essays on Call It Sleep
Henry Roth’s Call it Sleep, praised when it first appeared in the 1930s, neglected for decades and reissued to wide acclaim in the 1960s, has been...
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New Essays on Call It Sleep
Henry Roth’s Call it Sleep, praised when it first appeared in the 1930s, neglected for decades and reissued to wide acclaim in the 1960s, has been...
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Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre
In the 1930s, the Work Progress Administration funded a massive Federal Theatre Project in America’s major urban centres, presenting hundreds of...
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A Cultural History of the American Novel, 1890–1940
This book interweaves a wide selection of the novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a series of cultural events ranging...
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New Essays on Go Down, Moses
Go Down, Moses (1942) came to fruition during the Second World War, was written during one of Faulkner’s most traumatic periods, and has fallen to...
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New Essays on The Education of Henry Adams
This volume in The American Novel series addresses the established reputation of The Education of Henry Adams as a classic work of American...
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Abductive Inference
This book is about abduction, "the logic of Sherlock Holmes", and about how some kinds of abductive reasoning can be programmed in a...
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New Essays on The Education of Henry Adams
This volume in The American Novel series addresses the established reputation of The Education of Henry Adams as a classic work of American...
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Nature and the Greeks and Science and Humanism
Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy...
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Tracing T. S. Eliot’s Spirit
T. S. Eliot’s lifelong quest for a world of the spirit is the theme of this book by leading Eliot scholar A. David Moody. The first four essays in...
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Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences
This book defends the prospects for a science of society. It argues that behind the diverse methods of the natural sciences lies a common core of...
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Pausanias’ Greece
This is the first systematic and detailed study of Pausanias’ view of Roman involvement in Greece. It begins with an assessment of Pausanias’...
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Walt Whitman
This volume, a significant contribution to the reception history of Leaves of Grass, Specimen Days and other works, reproduces the full range of the...
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Concepts and Methods in Evolutionary Biology
Robert Brandon is one of the most important and influential of contemporary philosophers of biology. This collection of his recent essays covers all...
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New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin’s first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, has gained a wide readership and much critical acclaim since its publication in 1953....
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Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences
This book defends the prospects for a science of society. It argues that behind the diverse methods of the natural sciences lies a common core of...
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New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin’s first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, has gained a wide readership and much critical acclaim since its publication in 1953....
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Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews
Henry James: The Contemporary Reviews presents the most thorough gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of James’s work ever assembled. Other...
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Theatre in the United States
This is the first of two volumes of documents which describe the growth and development of theatre in the United States. The first volume covers the...
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Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation
This book describes a new Henry James who, rather than being paraded as a beacon of high culture, actually expresses a nuanced understanding of, and...
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English Historical Metrics
This volume identifies historical metrics as an important discipline within English studies and raises significant questions about the composition...
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The Romance Languages
What is a Romance language? How is one Romance language related to others? How did they all evolve? And what can they tell us about language in...
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