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Mammon’s Music
Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton
The commercial revolution of the seventeenth century deeply changed English culture. In this ambitious book, Blair Hoxby explores what that economic transformation meant to the century’s greatest poet, John Milton, and...
Visiones
Perspectivas literarias de la realidad social hispana
Visiones is a unique anthology of Spanish literature that employs literary texts to explore social, political, and economic issues specific to Hispanic cultures. The book approaches literary texts—novels, short...
Republic of Denial
Press, Politics, and Public Life
This thought-provoking book offers the most insightful critique of the relationship among the press, politics, and public life in decades. Disdain for politics today in the United States is almost universal. Condemnation of...
What Are Journalists For?
American journalists in the 1990s confronted disturbing trends—an erosion of trust in the news media, weakening demand for serious news, flagging interest in politics and civic affairs, and a discouraging public climate...
The Power of Feelings
Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture
In the middle of the twentieth century, leading cultural critics and visionaries—Erik Erikson, Lionel Trilling, Herbert Marcuse, and many others—turned to psychoanalysis as a measure of human personal and cultural fulfillment...
Caught in the Web of Words
James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and a great...
Bright Pages
Yale Writers, 1701-2001
College years—when ideas collide, literature intrigues and inspires, lasting passions are first fired—can stamp a young writer for life. This extraordinary book contains the work of dozens of writers whose experiences at Yale...
Learning Policy
When State Education Reform Works
Education reformers and policymakers argue that improved students’ learning requires stronger academic standards, stiffer state tests, and accountability for students’ scores. Yet these efforts seem not to be succeeding in...
Confessio Philosophi
Papers Concerning the Problem of Evil, 1671–1678
This volume contains papers that represent Leibniz’s early thoughts on the problem of evil, centering on a dialogue, the Confessio philosophi, in which he formulates a general account of God’s relation to sin and evil that...
You Can't Steal a Gift
Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat
In this wise, stimulating, and deeply personal book, an eminent jazz chronicler writes of his encounters with four great black musicians: Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Milt Hinton, and Nat "King" Cole. Equal parts memoir...