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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...
Resolute and Undertaking Characters: The Lives of Wilhelm and Otto Struve
My interest in the history of the Struve family is long-standing but lay dormant until 1972, when I found myself organizing a symposium of the International Astronomical Union in memory of the second Otto Struve. To satisfy my own curiosity, I investigated the precise relationships of the famous astronomers in the family and published an account of them, based mainly on secondary sources. The exercise made me a ware that there was no biography in English of the first and probably still the greatest astronomer in the clan - Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve. Wilhelm's son, the first Otto, wrote an account (in German) of his father's life, intended primarily for family and close friends and --tho...
William and Henry James
This collection of 216 letters offers an accessible, single-volume distillation of the exchange between celebrated brothers William and Henry James. Spanning more than fifty years, their correspondence presents a lively account of the persons, places, and events that affected the Euro-American world from 1861 until the death of William James in August 1910. An engaging introduction by John J. McDermott suggests the significance of the Selected Letters for the study of the entire family.
The Inverted Mirror
It is hard to imagine nowadays that, for many years, France and Germany considered each other as "arch enemies." And yet, for well over a century, these two countries waged verbal and ultimately violent wars against each other. This study explores a particularly virulent phase during which each of these two nations projected certain assumptions about national character onto the other - distorted images, motivated by antipathy, fear, and envy, which contributed to the growing hostility between the two countries in the years before the First World War. Most remarkably, as the author discovered, the qualities each country ascribed to its chief adversary appeared to be exaggerated or negative versions of precisely those qualities that it perceived to be lacking or inadequate in itself. Moreover, banishing undesirable traits and projecting them onto another people was also an essential step in the consolidation of national identity. As such, it established a pattern that has become all too familiar to students of nationalism and xenophobia in recent decades. This study shows that antagonism between states is not a fact of nature but socially constructed.
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