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Contemporaries of Erasmus
Offers biographical information about the more than 1900 people mentioned in the correspondence and works of Erasmus who died after 1450 and were thus approximately his contemporaries.
Men of the Time
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Men of the Time
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries
By placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her contemporaries, this collection seeks to correct misunderstandings of the feminist writer and lecturer as an isolated radical. Gilman's highly public and combative stances as a critic and social activist brought her into contact and conflict with many of the major thinkers and writers of the period. Gilman wrote on subjects as wide ranging as birth control, eugenics, race, women's rights and suffrage, psychology, Marxism, and literary aesthetics. Her many contributions to social, intellectual, and literary life at the turn of the 20th century raised the bar for future discourse, but at great personal and professional cost. -- From publisher's description.
My Contemporaries
"For almost fifty years (until his death in 1963) Jean Cocteau held a unique place in French cultural life. His successes in the theatrical, film, ballet, and literary worlds bear witness to the astounding variety of his talents, and in all these fields he made many lifelong friends. It is in his portraits of them that the essence of his work can be found, for, as Margaret Crosland points out in her introduction, 'they illustrate everything that is accessible, sympathetic, memorable, durable, all-pervading, or merely dazzling. ... Through his descriptions of people we can see many aspects of his genius: the skill in selecting and translating his observation, through brilliant handling of words, into a verbal portrait or caricature."--Book jacket.
Mary Shelley
This collection of essays expands critical consideration of Mary Shelley’s placement within the age we call “Romantic,” wherein her texts converse with those of her family, her circle, and her contemporaries. Several essays address particularly how her texts interact with those of her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, revealing new depth and breadth to their literary partnership. Others investigate interdisciplinary perspectives, such as her pieces in The Liberal or the ways in which the figure of Scheherezade haunts her works, while several essays also consider Mary Shelley’s textual relationships with contemporaries such as Thomas Moore and John Polidori. Still others tackle topics such as geopolitical relationships and the growth of opera as an art form, considering Mary Shelley’s commentary upon such contemporary issues, while William Godwin’s textual relationship with his daughter is further investigated. This collection suggests Mary Shelley’s texts merit further investigation not only for what they reveal about their author and her oeuvre, but for the ways in which they illuminate our understanding of the contexts in which they were composed.
Ruskin and His Contemporaries
This work throws new light on a character, whose interests encompassed art, architecture, morality, criticism, literature, the environment, education, the changes that he saw overtaking the country and a new political order for the working man.
