A series, eclectic in scope, designed to offer books with a critical edge on topics of broad interest to the intellectual community. The series is closed to new submissions.
As the study of literature has extended to cultural contexts, critics have developed a language all their own. Yet, argues Mark Bauerlein, scholars of literature today are so unskilled in pertinent...
Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces shifting representations of violence, space, and nation in French crime fiction from serial...
"The Paper Age" is the phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1837 to describe the monetary and literary inflation of the French Revolution—an age of mass-produced "Bank-paper" and "Book-paper." Carlyle's...
Gambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history. In Dice, Cards, Wheels, Thomas M. Kavanagh scrutinizes the changing face of the gambler in France over a period of eight centuries,...
In Institutions of the English Novel, Homer Obed Brown takes issue with the generally accepted origin of the novel in the early eighteenth century. Brown argues that what we now call the novel did not...
Mourning Glory sheds light on troubled times as it shows how passion and prejudice, grief and denial all contributed to the continuing creation of a revolutionary legacy that still affects our understanding...
The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction
Andrea Goulet
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812239317
Pub Date: June 2006
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
Andrea Goulet takes the study of the novel into the realm of the visual by situating it in the context of nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical discourse about the nature of sight. She argues...
In this book Ralph Schoolcraft explores the extraordinary career of the modern French author, film director, and diplomat—a romantic and tragic figure whose fictions extended well beyond his books....
The literature and art of the French Enlightenment is everywhere marked by an intense awareness of the moment. The parallel projects of living in, representing, and learning from the moment run through...
Film in the Courtroom from the Nuremberg Trials to the Trials of the Khmer Rouge
Christian Delage
Edited by Ralph Schoolcraft
Edited and translated by Ralph Schoolcraft
Translated by Mary Byrd Kelly
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780812245561
Pub Date: December 2013
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
When the Allied forces of World War II formed an international tribunal to prosecute Nazi war crimes, they introduced two major innovations to court procedure. The prosecution projected film footage...
