A history of the Renaissance, examining the economic, social, and technological undergirdings of the sudden outpouring of genius, and providing analyses of specific artists and their works of literature, painting, sculpture, and architecture.
Presents cross-referenced essays, along with sidebars and illustrations, that chronicle and examine the evolution of American thought and expression. Also includes a chronology spanning 1607-1996.
Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett and others on the Left Bank
Campbell, James
1995
Presents portraits of various post-World War II writers based in Paris, focusing on the stories of Richard Wright, the African-American author who left the United States in search of freedom, and Maurice Girodias, founder of the Olympia Press.
An overview of the Harlem Renaissance that explores the people, events, and accomplishments that shaped the era and its impact on the African-American community.
Chronicles the life of Blaise Pascal, exploring his childhood as a prodigy, essential additions to Descartes's work at sixteen, invention of the mechanical calculator at nineteen, contributions to modern science and mathematical thinking, and other related topics.
Examines the realities of life in Elizabethan and Jacobean times through a selection of accounts taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries, and pamphlets by and about the contemporaries of playwright William Shakespeare.
Presents thirteen essays on important American authors from the 1830s to the 1860s, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, and Herman Melville.
Provides a detailed biography of American novelist Edith Wharton, discussing her journeys through Europe, her peers, the places she lived, unhappy marriage, passionate affair, literary works, and much more. Includes photographs.
