"This Handbook offers a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new essays by an international team of literary critics and historians on the writings gener...
"This volume focuses on the great Roman love poet Propertius. Propertius' poetry reveals an ardent love affair between the poet and his girlfriend, whom he call...
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Since Illinois became a state in 1818, it has been a microcosm of the country at every stage of its development, from its status as a "free" state in antebellum...
Family storytelling offers many of the same advantages as book reading - and some new ones - for children's language and emotional development, coping skills, a...
"Fénelon may be the most neglected of all the major early modern philosophers. His political masterwork was the most-read book in eighteenth-century France afte...
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"From Empire to Humanity tells the story of a generation of American and British activists who transformed humanitarianism as they adjusted to becoming foreigne...