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Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance
The 366 lyrics of Petrarch’s Canzoniere exert a unique influence in literary history. From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, the poems are imitated in every major language of western Europe, and for a...
Toward a Democratic Science
Scientific Narration and Civic Communication
In this important book, a leading authority in the field of social theory and communication shows how scientific practice is a rhetorical and narrative activity, a story well told. Richard Harvey Brown develops the idea of...
A Portrait of Mendelssohn
Since his death in 1847, Felix Mendelssohn’s music and personality have been both admired and denigrated to extraordinary degrees. In this valuable book Clive Brown weaves together a rich array of documents—letters,...
Farmers' Bounty
Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World
Biological diversity is as crucial in agriculture as it is in nature, and it is equally important to the economic health of both industrial and nonindustrial societies. This book offers a sweeping assessment of crop...
Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism
Robert Penn Warren has distinguished himself in many areas of endeavor—as a poet, a novelist, a critic, and an observer of American history and politics. In this book, John Burt examines Warren’s writings in these apparently...
Made to Play House
Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830-1930
Dolls have long been perceived as symbols of domesticity, maternity, and materialism, designed by men and loved by girls who wanted to "play house." In this engagingly written and illustrated social history of the American...
The Atonal Music of Anton Webern
The Austrian composer Anton Webern (1883–1945) is one of the major figures of musical modernism. His mature works comprise two styles: the so-called free atonal music composed between 1907 and 1924, and the twelve-tone serial...
Common Bodies
Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century England
This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters, popular literature, and detailed legal records from courts that...
Professional Savages
Captive Lives and Western Spectacle
In August 1882 the circus impresario P. T. Barnum called for examples of “all the uncivilized races in existence.” In response, the showman R. A. Cunningham shipped two groups of Australian Aborigines to the United States....
The Beecher Sisters
A joint biography of three extraordinary sisters and the tumultuous century that they helped to shape The Beecher sisters—Catharine, Harriet, and Isabella—were three of the most prominent women in...