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Lionel Gossman
A disproportionate number of the great publishing houses of the English-speaking world - -Blackie, Blackwood, Collins, Constable, Macmillan, Millar, Murray, Nelson, Smith and Elder, Strahan -- were founded after the…
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Even in certain of Moliere’s own works, in fact, the comic vision shades into something close to Romantic irony.
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Marie Adelheid, Prinzessin Reu -zur Lippe was a rebellious young woman and aspiring writer from an ancient princely family who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded Jugendstil…
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Although Sainte-Palaye had a surprising influence on the literature and historiography of both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries–in France, England, and Germany–eighteenth-century medievalism, Gossman argues, is best understood not as…
One of a small number of historical texts that have become classics, Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire demands and deserves the kind of attention readers habitually grant…
This work tells the story of 19th century Basel, this seemingly anachronistic hybrid of commercialism and classical republicanism, and of four thinkers who retreated there: Jacob Burckhardt, Johann Jakob Bachofen…
Professor Lionel Gossman
In this thought-provoking book, Gossman focuses on Overbeck's "Italia and Germania" to discuss the importance of religious conversion in Romantic thought. Gossman gives excellent translations from original German sources that…
In the wake of Glasgow’s transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse, the Second City of the Empire, a substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith degenerated…
Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Baron Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist. His discovery and excavation of Tell Halaf in Syria marked…
Marie Adelheid, Prinzessin Reuss-zur Lippe was a rebellious young woman and aspiring writer from an ancient princely family who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded Jugendstil artist…
At a time when the study of literature and the literary canon itself are once again the focus of intense debate, Building a Profession offers a retrospective on the early…
Hermynia Zur Muhlen
First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman’s struggle to achieve…
Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her…
Lionel Gossman,Hermynia Zur Muhlen
Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur M hlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with…
Nicolas Bouvier,Gordon A. Craig,Lionel Gossman
Recognized by historians and politicians as a model for European unity, Switzerland is nonetheless a difficult country to understand as a whole. Whereas individual Swiss cities have strong identities in…
Recognized by many as a model for European unity, Switzerland is nonetheless a difficult country to understand as a whole. To capture the elusive spirit of Switzerland, four writers explore…
