intellectual life

Draws on the list of man's seven ages found in William Shakespeare's play "As You Like It" to highlight key events in the playwright's life and explore their impact on the Bard's work.

A comprehensive collection of writings published in "The Atlantic Monthly" over a 150-year period by a number of America's most prominent potoical commentators, journalists, historians, storytellers, and poets.

The author recounts his experiences in the South from the 1940s through the 1960s.

Reprint of a 1934 text in which the author meditates upon the design and goals of literary culture, chronicling the conditions, ideas, and experiences that shaped American writing in the early twentieth century, and paying homage to the nurturing atmosphere of Paris in the 1920s.

Profiles the work of Bolognese painter Lavinia Fontana and discusses how she became the most significant and prolific woman artist of Renaissance Europe.

Contains critical articles which analyze important literary works from the Harlem Renaissance and provide information about the genre's most influential writers and works.

African writer Chinua Achebe discusses how the European impact on African culture affected his own life.

Tells the story of how the publishing industry rose from virtual obscurity during the Victorian age to dominate English and world literature, and relates personal anecdotes about authors, editors, and publishers of the era and their attempts to make decent livings.

Text and cartoon illustrations introduce the Enlightenment, discussing the writings of Diderot, Voltaire, Rousseau, and other Western thinkers of the eighteenth century.