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Rise of Reason
This book offers one of the first critical evaluations and in-depth analysis of the intellectual movement in Maharashtra in the 19th century. Arguing against the prevalent view …
Jan Steen – The Drawing Lesson
In this fascinating exploration of Jan Steen's The Drawing Lesson, John Walsh offers an explanation of the individual parts and larger patterns of the work, allowing us to see how …
Alison Uttley
Little Grey Rabbit, Sam Pig and Brown Fox are just some of the characters created in children's books by Alison Uttley. But who was the real woman who spun these enchanting tales …
Prisoners of Time
An intellectual tour de force: the major essays of the esteemed author of international bestseller The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most …
Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant
Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant provides the first in-depth examination of the lifelong intellectual relationship between two of the greatest figures of the European …
Kennedy, Johnson and NATO
Kennedy, Johnson and the Defence of NATO is an incisive reassessment of Anglo-American defence relations, which form a crucial part of international security.Andrew Priest closely …
The Cavernous Mind of Thomas Jefferson, an American Savant
While every biographer has something to say concerning Thomas Jefferson's cavernous mind—his varied interests and the depth of his understanding of them—there has never been, …
Reason, Reality and Speculative Philosophy
This work introduces readers to a philosopher who used ordinary English to address traditional problems of philosophy. Murphy gives a critical account of speculative philsophy and, …
[thompson's Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances
Making Gender, Culture, and the Self in the Fiction of Samuel Richardson
Proposing that Samuel Richardson's novels were crucial for the construction of female individuality in the mid-eighteenth century, Bonnie Latimer shows that Richardson's heroines …
Edwin Arlington Robinson
At the time of his death in 1935, Edwin Arlington Robinson was regarded as the leading American poet-the equal of Frost and Stevens. In this biography, Scott Donaldson tells the …
Maxwell Anderson and the Classical Tradition
This book sheds new light on the dramatic works of the American playwright, poet, and lyricist Maxwell Anderson, assessing the pervasive influence of Greek and Roman antiquity on …