The Labyrinth

Jens Baggesen

'This travel book is truly a labyrinth--or, more precisely, a piece of the labyrinth that it has been my fate to wander, from the cradle to the grave.' Jens Baggesen's The Labyrinth (1792-93) is a genre-bending and highly personal travel book that follows the young...

The Labyrinth

Jens Baggesen

'This travel book is truly a labyrinth--or, more precisely, a piece of the labyrinth that it has been my fate to wander, from the cradle to the grave.' Jens Baggesen's The Labyrinth (1792-93) is a genre-bending and highly personal travel book that follows the young...

Goethe tra arte e scienza

Francesco Moiso

“Arte e scienza hanno dei punti in comune? Se sì, come possono coesistere e consistere in unico colpo d’occhio? È solo la genialità personale di un uomo come Goethe che ha potuto riunirle, oppure esiste qualcosa di più profondo che sta alle radici di queste due attività...

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

In Walden, Thoreau explains how separating oneself from the world of men can truly awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau holds fast to the notion that you have not truly existed until you adopt such a lifestyle—and only then can you reenter society, as an...

Tracts (N°50) - Antidote to the cult of performance. Robustness from nature

Olivier Hamant

Socio-ecological disruption is no longer a prediction; it is a reality, punctuated by crises. In response, we produce sustainable development, a prescription for sobriety and rising levels of ecoanxiety. But what if we were on the wrong track? Scientific reports agree...

Tracts (N°50) - Antidote to the cult of performance. Robustness from nature

Olivier Hamant

Socio-ecological disruption is no longer a prediction; it is a reality, punctuated by crises. In response, we produce sustainable development, a prescription for sobriety and rising levels of ecoanxiety. But what if we were on the wrong track? Scientific reports agree...

All Things Are Too Small

Becca Rothfeld

From one of the most talented young thinkers in the US, a warm, funny and intellectually dazzling call for excess, ecstasy and disorder in an age of sterility and minimalismTIME MAGAZINE'S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024NEW YORK TIMES' 100 MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024PROSPECT...

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose

Robert Morrison

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is a full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British Romantic nonfiction prose. Organized into eight parts, each containing between five and nine chapters arranged alphabetically, the Handbook weaves together...

Caste Away

Na. Vanamamalai

A pithy and momentous collection of essays on caste–equality struggles in Tamil Nadu by scholar and social activist Na. Vanamamalai Offering a meticulous exploration of Tamil Nadu's intricate caste dynamics, Na. Vanamamalai's pivotal work unveils the endeavours of...

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose

Robert Morrison

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is a full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British Romantic nonfiction prose. Organized into eight parts, each containing between five and nine chapters arranged alphabetically, the Handbook weaves together...

No Judgement

Lauren Oyler

People Who Lunch

Sally Olds

A riveting investigation of the utopian experiments attempting to resist the unrelenting demands of late-stage capitalism—only to end up living comfortably alongside it What do post‑work politics, the cult of crypto, clubbing, and polyamory have in common?...

Food and Culture in the Works of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf

Nanette O'brien

Writing about food has long been a part of autobiographical expression that combines culinary record-keeping and histories, drawing on the personal and the cultural. Concentrating on the transatlantic work of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf, this...

Food and Culture in the Works of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf

Nanette O'brien

Writing about food has long been a part of autobiographical expression that combines culinary record-keeping and histories, drawing on the personal and the cultural. Concentrating on the transatlantic work of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf, this...

Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature

Jean-Michel Ganteau , Christine Reynier

This volume comes as a sequel to a previous publication, Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature, which explored the paradoxical connections between impersonality and emotion, two notions central to modernist as well as to later British...

Emily Dickinson

Antoine Cazé

Aucun numéro de revue n’a jamais été consacré intégralement à Emily Dickinson en France. Qu’on ne s’y méprenne pas, cette affirmation relève de bien autre chose que de la fierté qu’on peut ressentir à avoir comblé une lacune, et qui pourrait paraître déplacée. Elle...

Elizabeth Bishop

Axel Nesme , Jacques Pothier

Consacré à Elizabeth Bishop, l’ouvrage examine le traitement de l’espace visuel et métaphorique dans une poésie où l’instabilité prévaut. La frontière entre espace public et espace privé s’y brouille de diverses manières : par le truchement d’hétérotopies, par décadrage...

Shelf Aware

V.R. Ferose

BIBLIOPHILIA: A perfectly acceptable addiction marked by obsessive reading, aggressive book-sniffing and strategic hoarding.For as long as Ferose, a San Francisco-based techie and 'gently mad' bibliophile, has understood books, he has devoured them with the unmitigated...

The Best of Europe for Women - Choisir la cause des femmes (éd. poche)

Choisir La Cause Des Femmes

Gisèle Halimi was not alone in asking herself how women could benefit from the construction of Europe. And the answer they came up with was based on a very simple principle: they were going to take the most advanced laws in force in a European country on a given subject...

Edward Thomas: Prose Writings: A Selected Edition

Edna Longley

Edward Thomas can be seen as the most important poetry critic in the early twentieth century. Thomas was a prose-writer before he was a poet. The Selected Edition of his prose, and especially this volume, shows that he was also a critic before he was a poet. His unusual...