Personal Takes
Personal Takes is a series of short books in which noted critics write about the persistent hold particular writers, artists, or cultural phenomena have had on their imaginations. The series is closed to new submissions.
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Exposés and Excess
Muckraking in America, 19 / 2
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812219265
Pub Date: April 2005
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812218367
Pub Date: October 2002
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
Nina Auerbach examines both the life of Daphne du Maurier as it is revealed in her writings and the sensibility of a vanished class and a time now gone that haunts the fringes of our own age.
Musically Speaking
A Life Through Song
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812237467
Pub Date: August 2003
Format: Hardcover
152 Pages
The Fugitive in Flight
Faith, Liberalism, and Law in a Classic TV Show
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9780812242775
Pub Date: November 2010
Format: Hardcover
160 Pages
Literary and legal scholar Stanley Fish examines the moral structure of the long-running, fabled, 1960s television series The Fugitive. For Fish, the show's hero, Richard Kimble, is the perfect representative of the virtues and the dark side of mid-twentieth-century liberalism.
Faculty Towers
The Academic Novel and Its Discontents
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812220858
Pub Date: August 2009
Format: Paperback
152 Pages
In Faculty Towers, Showalter takes a personal look at the ways novels about the academy have charted changes in the university and society since 1950.
Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann
An Eyewitness Account
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812220650
Pub Date: April 2009
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
In his coverage of the Eichmann Trial, Harry Mulisch offers a portrayal of the process, of the man, and of the implications of the efficiency of evil.
Tropic of Venice
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9780812239843
Pub Date: February 2007
Format: Hardcover
374 Pages
In this journey through the work of artists and the writings of travelers who have been both smitten and repelled by the influence of Venice, Margaret Doody explores ways in which this is a city profoundly unlike any other on earth—and one that simultaneously unsettles and reveals many of our most deeply rooted cultural values.
When Men Were the Only Models We Had
My Teachers Fadiman, Barzun, Trilling
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812236323
Pub Date: September 2001
Format: Hardcover
168 Pages
"A study of the influences of Clifton Fadiman, Lionel Trilling, and Jacques Barzun on Heilbrun's own literary development, but the book is far broader than that—really, a history of Columbia University in the turmoil of the sixties and beyond. And this isn't for women only!"—Maxine Kumin, Ploughshares
Exposés and Excess
Muckraking in America, 19 / 2
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812219265
Pub Date: April 2005
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812218367
Pub Date: October 2002
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
Nina Auerbach examines both the life of Daphne du Maurier as it is revealed in her writings and the sensibility of a vanished class and a time now gone that haunts the fringes of our own age.
Musically Speaking
A Life Through Song
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812237467
Pub Date: August 2003
Format: Hardcover
152 Pages
The Fugitive in Flight
Faith, Liberalism, and Law in a Classic TV Show
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9780812242775
Pub Date: November 2010
Format: Hardcover
160 Pages
Literary and legal scholar Stanley Fish examines the moral structure of the long-running, fabled, 1960s television series The Fugitive. For Fish, the show's hero, Richard Kimble, is the perfect representative of the virtues and the dark side of mid-twentieth-century liberalism.
Faculty Towers
The Academic Novel and Its Discontents
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812220858
Pub Date: August 2009
Format: Paperback
152 Pages
In Faculty Towers, Showalter takes a personal look at the ways novels about the academy have charted changes in the university and society since 1950.
Criminal Case 40/61, the Trial of Adolf Eichmann
An Eyewitness Account
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812220650
Pub Date: April 2009
Format: Paperback
208 Pages
In his coverage of the Eichmann Trial, Harry Mulisch offers a portrayal of the process, of the man, and of the implications of the efficiency of evil.
Tropic of Venice
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9780812239843
Pub Date: February 2007
Format: Hardcover
374 Pages
In this journey through the work of artists and the writings of travelers who have been both smitten and repelled by the influence of Venice, Margaret Doody explores ways in which this is a city profoundly unlike any other on earth—and one that simultaneously unsettles and reveals many of our most deeply rooted cultural values.
When Men Were the Only Models We Had
My Teachers Fadiman, Barzun, Trilling
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812236323
Pub Date: September 2001
Format: Hardcover
168 Pages
"A study of the influences of Clifton Fadiman, Lionel Trilling, and Jacques Barzun on Heilbrun's own literary development, but the book is far broader than that—really, a history of Columbia University in the turmoil of the sixties and beyond. And this isn't for women only!"—Maxine Kumin, Ploughshares