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Ben Jonson: The Complete Masques
The Renaissance court masque, traditionally an entertainment of music, dancing, pageantry, and spectacular scenic effects, was transformed by Ben Jonson into a serious mode of literary expression. By using its peculiar...

Returning to Tradition
The Contemporary Revival of Orthodox Judaism
In recent years, numbers of young American and Israeli Jews raised in nonreligious families have chosen to become practicing Orthodox Jews, eating only food that is kosher, abstaining from all work on the Sabbath, and...

The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 4
With Madame Du Deffand, II

The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 17
With Sir Horace Mann, I

Volume 32
With the Countess of Upper Ossory, I, 1761-1777

Articulate Flesh
Male Homo-Eroticism and Modern Poetry
Arguing that homosexual poetry is part of the mainstream of poetic writing—not a distinct and differentiated category within it—Gregory Woods provides a fastidious study of homosexual poetry in the twentieth century that...

The Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino
Jacopo Sansovino was the leading sculptor and architect of sixteenth-century Venice. His position and abilities enabled him to reshape Venetian sculpture, and his influence remained dominant long after his death. This...

The Japanese Voter
This landmark work surveys the major factors that influence voting behavior in Japan. It is the first comprehensive study of the Japanese voter to be written for English-speaking audiences. It is commonly...

Philosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory
In this lucid and elegantly written book, Joel Weinsheimer discusses how the insights of Hans-Georg Gadamer alter our understanding of literary theory and interpretation. Weinsheimer begins by...

The Druze
In the first complete account of the Druze, Robert Brenton Betts provides a general survey of the history, traditions, and society of this secretive Arab sect. Betts, who has spent a great deal of time with the Druze,...