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Yale French Studies, Number 95
Rereading Allegory: Essays in Memory of Daniel Poirion
Guided by the groundbreaking work of the late Daniel Poirion, medievalists have in recent years begun to reconsider assumptions about allegory, asserting that medieval allegory does not contain stable meaning or the...
Honor and Violence in Golden Age Spain
Early modern Spain has long been viewed as having a culture obsessed with honor, where a man resorted to violence when his or his wife’s honor was threatened, especially through sexual disgrace. This book—the first to...
The New Eugenics
Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies
A provocative examination of how unequal access to reproductive technology replays the sins of the eugenics movement Eugenics, the effort to improve the human species by inhibiting reproduction of “inferior...
The Western Paradox
A Conservation Reader
“This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto’s crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper.”—Arthur M....
Chinese Grammar Made Easy
A Practical and Effective Guide for Teachers
Chinese Grammar Made Easy presents instructors with innovative and classroom-tested techniques for teaching Chinese grammar. Its communicative, meaning-based approach helps teachers to engage students by bringing...
Without Title
Praise for Geoffrey Hill’s newest collection of poems:“Without Title, his new collection, combines the force and freedom of Hill's narrative verse with a renewed faith in his masterly talents for form and...
Sarah Osborn's World
The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America
A colonial woman's riveting personal journal and correspondence opens a window on America's first-generation evangelicals In 1743, sitting quietly with pen in hand, Sarah Osborn pondered how to tell the...
England and the Spanish Armada
The Necessary Quarrel
The Anglo-Spanish War of 1585–1603 was, to most contemporary Englishmen, a conflict for the soul of the nation. To their descendants, the Armada campaign of 1588 represented a watershed in European history that both...
Through a Screen Darkly
Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America's Image Abroad
Why it is a mistake to let commercial entertainment serve as America's de facto ambassador to the world What does the world admire most about America? Science, technology, higher education, consumer goods...
Frank Loesser
Perhaps best remembered as the writer and composer of the ever-popular Guys and Dolls and the Pulitzer Prize–winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Frank Loesser was one of the great...