One hundred and fifty years ago, a Swiss immigrant took America by storm, launching modern American science. The charismatic Louis Agassiz, who first made a name for himself by discovering how glacier
The time has come to take another look at Longfellow. ChristophIrmscher's new book overturns the modern prejudice against Longfellow as the mere purveyor of literary comfort food. Examining his unpub
The time has come to take another look at Longfellow, America's most popular poet. ChristophIrmscher overturns the modern prejudice against Longfellow as the mere purveyor of literary comfort food. E
Max Eastman (1883–1969) was a prolific writer, radical, and public intellectual who helped shape the twentieth century. While researching this masterful work, acclaimed biographer ChristophIrmscher w
The most popular American poet of his day, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807--1882) was a multiculturalist before the term was invented. He passionately believed in the value of foreign travel and conc
The visual arts and sciences have a shared history of creativity and parallel paths of experimentation, goal seeking, and trial and error. Both disciplines employ innovative techniques and novel mater
Poems Written Abroad is the first-ever publication of the earliest collection of poetry by the famous poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, and radical, Sir Stephen Spender (1909-1995). Spender
This book features Louis Agassiz’s seminal lecture course in which the Swiss-American scientist, a self-styled “American Humboldt,” summarized the state of zoological knowledge in his time. Though Dar
"Lucy was, in DeLatte's words, 'extraordinarily independent'. She was no feminist.... Yet Lucy Bakewell Audubon had one advantage over many other women of her time: she knew precisely what she wanted.
The great naturalist artist's journals, memoirs, and letters are published here for the first time, accompanying a rich portfolio of his well-known bird illustrations.
The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. Written in the tradition of James Fen
Evangeline is a photographic exploration of Nova Scotia, Canada, directly inspired by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1847 epic poem about the historic Expulsion of the Acadians. Today, the proud presenc
A landmark collection of essays on the intersections of visual art, cultural studies, and environmental history in America. Issues of ecology—both as they appear in the works of nature writ
Ten essays provide a new approach to the work of the most popular American poet of all time. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow’s work
