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The Russian Novelists
The Russian Novelists by Vicomte Eugène-Melchior Vogüé is a seminal work that offers an insightful exploration into the world of Russian literature, focusing on the foremost novelists of the 19th century. This critical study provides a deep dive into the lives, works, and literary contributions of Russia’s most influential novelists, including Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Ivan Turgenev. Vogüé, a distinguished French critic and scholar, examines the distinctive qualities that characterize Russian novels and their place in the broader literary tradition. Through detailed analysis and critique, he sheds light on the thematic richness, narrative techniques, and social contexts that...
The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society
The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society is the first collection in English of writings by Italian jurist, sociologist, and cultural and literary critic Scipio Sighele (1868-1913). In post-unification Italy and internationally Sighele was an important figure in contemporary debates on such issues as popular unrest, the problematic borders between individual and collective accountability, the role of urbanization in the development of criminality, and the emancipation of women. This volume draws an intricate portrait of a provocative thinker and public intellectual caught between tradition and modernity in fin de si?cle Europe. It features new English translations of Sighele's se...
Architecture and the After-life
The Pyramids and the Taj Mahal are witness to the extravagant architectural tributes that, throughout human history, the great and the wealthy have paid to their dead. In this book, a well-known architectural historian provides a history of funerary architecture in western Europe from the earliest megalithic tombs of prehistory to the establishment of public cemeteries in the nineteenth century. With sensitivity and wit, Howard Colvin traces the ways in which these structures represent changing ideas about the after-life as well as changes in architectural style.
Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Volume 2
This volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports. (The third volume will deal with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean.) As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to better roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism.
Here, There and Everywhere
Reproduction of the original: Here, There and Everywhere by Lord Frederick Hamilton
