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Harvard University Press

Literature &Culture2014

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The Dream of the Great American Novel Lawrence Buell

“Although readers will encounter many usually canonized sus-

pects, Buell’s scope is wide enough to encompass the varieties

of novelists’ imaginations and to consider the implications of

multiculturalism and globalism in redefining the future of Ameri-

can fiction.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Impressive in scope, erudition, and detail . . . Buell sees well be-

yond the canonical Great White Males and perceives American

studies as a properly ‘transnational’ and ‘transpacific’ profes-

sion. Buell’s engaging book should itself become a landmark of

American studies, as it exemplifies precisely why great literature

needs to be read and taught.”

—Publishers Weekly

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From the Tree to the Labyrinth Historical Studies on the Sign and Interpretation Umberto Eco Translated by Anthony Oldcorn

“Lush, comprehensive scholarship.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“A sort of summa of one of our most important thinkers on mat-

ters of language, signification, and interpretation. It illuminates

all of Umberto Eco’s earlier work by providing a great deal of

the historical contextualization for his arguments. It provides

important and fruitful ways of thinking about the organization

of knowledge and of our attitudes towards it. It intervenes in a

number of debates in the philosophy of language and in linguis-

tics. It contains a myriad of insights on medieval thinkers, Kant,

and Peirce, to mention but a few. This is a book that will enjoy a

wide readership.”

— Wlad Godzich, University of California, Santa Cruz

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A Life Worth Living Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning Robert Zaretsky ★ The Australian Hot Read for Summer

“Some writers are lucky enough to be remembered 50

years after they die, and a few are even beloved. What

is vanishingly rare, however, is for a long-dead writer

to remain controversial. Albert Camus is one of those

exceptions, a writer who still has the power to ignite

political passions, because he managed to incorporate

the history of the 20th century so deeply into his writing

. . . Readers new to Camus will find in Zaretsky a deeply

informed and warmly admiring guide.”

—Adam Kirsch, Daily Beast


Algerian ChroniclesAlbert CamusTranslated by Arthur GoldhammerIntroduction by Alice Kaplan

★ The Australian Hot Read for Summer

“Camus’s Algerian Chronicles, edited and introduced

by Alice Kaplan and beautifully translated by Arthur

Goldhammer, affords Camus the belated opportunity to

make his own case to the Anglophone public.”

—Claire Messud, New York Review of Books

“Camus’s writing on Kabylia is a marvel of eloquence. His

sympathy for the people, his critique of the colonial

regime, his pain over the injustices that he witnesses—all

thrilling. Seventy years after he wrote these pieces the

reader is still penetrated by their literary beauty.”

—Vivian Gornick, Boston Review


Walter Benjamin A Critical Life

Howard Eiland • Michael W. Jennings

“In this ambitious biography,

Benjamin scholars Eiland and

Jennings chart the protean,

prolific—albeit short—life of

the German-Jewish critic and

philosopher with masterly

aplomb. As a literary critic, a

dodger of both World Wars,

flâneur, and eventual victim

of Hitler’s reign, Benjamin

(1892–1940) lived with . . .

‘an impenetrable façade’

of courtesy, and severe

depression . . . The authors, in

impressive and accessible

fashion, reveal Benjamin as

an eyewitness to Europe’s

changing modernity.”

— Publishers Weekly

(starred review)

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Walden’s Shore Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science

Robert M. Thorson

“[Thorson] adds depth to the iconic image of Thoreau, revered

for his contributions to the American literary renaissance and

his role as a social reformer. Thorson uses Thoreau’s journals

as a source for his contention that he had a keen interest in

geology and the emerging theories of geological evolution

reflected in Charles Darwin’s Journal of Researches (1851),

which Thoreau read with great interest.”

—Kirkus Reviews

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On Poetry Glyn Maxwell

“[This] is a tremendously good book, and should be read by any-

one who writes poetry and anyone who’s interested in how and

why poetry is written . . . It’s a masterclass in close reading and

close writing—that is, in paying proper attention to the weight

of words and their various shades of meanings, to their musical

value and how one word affects its neighbor . . . This is the best

book about poetry I’ve ever read; certainly the only one that’s

made me laugh out loud.” —Adam Newey, The Guardian

“Defiantly and exhilaratingly poetic . . . If the book is witty, and

occasionally glib, it’s also profound . . . Arguing with this book is

part of the joy of it: it’s provocative and opinionated and per-

sonal and urgent; by turns good-humored and intemperate; and

full of earned advice on the writing and reading of poems.”

—Nick Laird, New York Review of Books

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Baghdad The City in Verse EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY Reuven SnirForeword by Roger Allen • Afterword by Abdul Kader El Janabi

“Snir . . . provides a substantial introduction that weaves the

poets’ voices into his own buoyant narration of Baghdad

through time . . . Snir helps puncture a variety of present-day

assumptions about Baghdad and the broader Muslim region . . .

[He provides] a deeply affecting compilation to illuminate, for

English readers, the Iraqi capital’s rich and enduring legacy . . .

Snir brings to life the city of his love . . . He offers a corrective

to warped perceptions of Baghdad and a reasoned hope for a

better future.” —Joseph Braude, Bookforum

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American CocktailA “Colored Girl” in the World

Anita Reynolds | With Howard Miller

Edited by George Hutchinson • Foreword by Patricia J. Williams

One of the first black stars of the silent era, Anita Reynolds ap-

peared in Hollywood movies with Rudolph Valentino, attended

Charlie Chaplin’s anarchist meetings, and studied dance with

Ruth St. Denis. She made a splash with both Harlem Renais-

sance elites and Greenwich Village bohemians. An émigré in

Paris, she fell in with the Left Bank avant garde, befriending

Antonin Artaud, Man Ray, and Pablo Picasso. American Cock-

tail presents a rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a

truly extraordinary woman.

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The Letters of Robert FrostVolume 1, 1886–1920 Robert Frost EDITED BY Donald Sheehy • Mark Richardson • Robert Faggen

“Frost shows himself to be playful, sly, caring and supremely

serious about his art in his letters to poets Amy Lowell, Louis

Untermeyer, Edward Arlington Robinson and Harriet Monroe;

publishers Alfred Knopf and Henry Holt; former students; his

daughter; and many friends.” —Kirkus Reviews

“After decades in which Robert Frost’s letters were unavailable,

we are given the first of several volumes, taking him up through

1920. Especially valuable are letters from 1913–14 in which Frost

staked out his poetic aims and principles. The editorial job is

painstakingly, indeed brilliantly, performed.”

—William Pritchard, Amherst College


The Long Voyage Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915–1987 Malcolm Cowley Edited by Hans Bak • Foreword by Robert Cowley

“Cowley [had] an immensely influential critical and editorial

career that spanned seven decades . . . Simply put, the American

literature of the twentieth century would look considerably

poorer and less interesting without his activities as a critic, editor,

and memoirist . . . If you don’t reckon with Malcolm Cowley’s works

and days, you can’t really understand how American literature

ascended to its rightful place among the great literatures of the

world.” —Gerald Howard, Bookforum

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Slow Reading in a Hurried Age David Mikics★ The Australian Hot Read for Summer

“Mikics understands how modern culture discourages reading for

pleasure—especially in an Internet world of short-lived but insis-

tent information. Inviting readers into a less frenetic, more re-

warding world, Mikics explores a series of literary masterpieces,

showing how getting lost in a book is still the best way to find

joys we really want . . . Readers acquire stimulating perspectives

on individual works by Homer and Whitman, Dickens and Cather,

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poise to set one work into play with others.”

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The Work of Revision Hannah Sullivan

“In Hannah Sullivan’s impressively researched first book,

revisions become a ‘figure for modernism’—particularly for

London-y High Moderns: from Henry James’ embroidered

sentences to Ezra Pound’s minimalist poetics and surgery to

The Waste Land; from Ulysses’ volcanic additions to Virginia

Woolf’s traumatized self-portraits. Hardly is a mark unremarked-

upon; even Pound’s colon from In a Station of the Metro is

probed . . . Sullivan persuasively claims that Modern revising

was radical, experimental, visible and self-conscious.”

—David Gewanter, Times Higher Education

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Sense and SensibilityAn Annotated Edition

Jane Austen | Edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks

� A Christian Science Monitor Gift Book

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“If you haven’t yet seen Harvard University Press’s annotated

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books are gorgeous.” —Christian Science Monitor

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LatinStory of a World LanguageJürgen LeonhardtTranslated by Kenneth Kronenberg

★ A Library Journal Best Book

★ A Slate “Overlooked Book”

“[A] must-read for anyone interested either in the status

of Latin or in what Latinity has signified throughout any

previous epoch of its existence.”

—Bryn Mawr Classical Review

“Leonhardt chronicles the language from its origins in the

classical period to its official end in 1806. He asserts that

in losing competence in reading Latin text, we are losing

conversations about the world’s greatest literature.”

—Annalisa Pesek, Library Journal

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The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 HoursGregory Nagy

“Gregory Nagy’s massive open online course [MOOC] is

one of the most significant developments in higher educa-

tion in years and Nagy is one of the foremost Homerists

of his generation, so [his MOOC] book deserves attention

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experiment . . . One of the greatest achievements of Nagy’s

research is that it powerfully illuminates the relationship

between myth and cult.”

—Barbara Graziosi, Times Higher Education

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Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 106EDITED BY

Kathleen M. Coleman



Little WomenAn Annotated Edition

Louisa May Alcott | Edited by Daniel Shealy

“[Shealy has] set out to contextualize and illustrate the social,

political, historical and literary realities that underpin this

wonderful and radical novel . . . What makes the book so glori-

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green playbill for the Concord Players, the balance of text to

image is well judged . . . For those of us who have an abiding

affection [for Little Women], it’s an utter treat.”

—Kate Mosse, The Times

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The Collaboration Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler Ben Urwand ★ A Los Angeles Times Holiday Gift Pick

“Urwand has done some energetic digging in the archives, quot-

ing letters, memos and newspaper reports to uncover a shame-

ful policy of compromise and kowtowing on the part of the

studio bosses.” —Anthony Quinn, The Guardian

“Sheds new light on the way the studio bosses responded to Nazi

pressure . . . Urwand describes how the Nazis tried to shape the

very content of American films.”

—Samuel Blumenfeld, Le Monde

“A tremendous piece of work, fully sustained, building momen-

tum charged by thrillingly detailed storytelling.”

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Literature in the First Media AgeBritain between the Wars David Trotter

“David Trotter’s brilliant study is a radical exploration of literature

in its relations to technologies and material cultures between

the wars. It offers inspired new ways of understanding the

preoccupations and aspirations of a period, through models of

connectivity and communication which will displace our now

familiar maps of early twentieth-century texts and contexts.”

—Laura Marcus, Oxford University


The Readers of �Novyi MirComing to Terms with the Stalinist Past

Denis Kozlov

“Given the paucity of outlets to express feelings and views,

the 12,000 letters to Novyi mir that Kozlov has studied give

unprecedented insight into the often confused and contradic-

tory reactions aroused by the revelations, however guarded,

of the horrors and lies of the past . . . Kozlov’s book becomes

not just an excellent study of a Soviet journal, its readers and

letter-writers and the editorial responses they received, but

also of a very complex and eventually admirable man [poet

Aleksandr Tvardovsky, chief editor of Novyi mir for much of

the 1950s and all of the 1960s] torn between his inner knowl-

edge and his sense of duty.” —Donald Rayfield, Literary Review

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3Elegy for Theory D. N. Rodowick

“This is a remarkable book: massively ambitious, brilliantly eru-

dite, and exceptionally lucid. As a companion book to the earlier

The Virtual Life of Film, it extends the argument of that first book

to demonstrate the centrality and importance of an aesthetic

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cinema studies. Elegy for Theory offers a flexible, informed, and

convincing perspective on the past and future of film theory—a

magnificent book.”

—Timothy Corrigan, University of Pennsylvania

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Evil MenJames Dawes★ A Maclean’s Top Book

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Men deploys a variety of sources—Augustine’s account of evil

as the privation of good; Thomas Hardy’s poetry on the ‘Vast

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ciological studies of police torturers, among others—to produce

a careful and sensitive exploration of some of the many different

questions, not all answerable, that are posed by the ‘problem of

evil.’”

—John Gray, Literary Review

2013�280 pp.�$25.95 | £19.95�cloth�9780674072657

A World Not to Come A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture

Raúl Coronado

“A World Not to Come is already a standard, well on its way to

becoming a classic. The comprehensiveness of the research

is extraordinary: an extraordinary job, extraordinarily well

done.” — Rolena Adorno, Yale University

“A magnificent first book. Raúl Coronado makes the case that

the meeting of Anglos and Mexicans in the Southwest occa-

sioned not only political and military conflict but also episte-

mological struggle between two different systems of thought.”

— Ramón Saldívar, Stanford University

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Becoming Dickens The Invention of a Novelist Robert Douglas-Fairhurst★ A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice★ Duff Cooper Prize★ A Sunday Times Best Book★ A Telegraph Best Book ★ A Times Literary Supplement Best Book★ A Wall Street Journal Best Book ★ A Telegraph Best Book★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title★ A Library Journal Best Book★ A New Statesman Best Book

“The freshest and most insightful book I have read on this great

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Dickens World . . . It is hard to imagine a better book on Dickens.”

—A. N. Wilson, New Statesman

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The Classical Tradition Edited by Anthony Grafton • Glenn W. Most • Salvatore Settis★ A Choice Outstanding Academic Title★ A New York Times Editors’ Choice★ A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book

“A heady, hefty new single-volume reference . . . This is a browser’s

paradise . . . While Greece and Rome are no longer the foundation

of education, classical scholarship has never been richer.”

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On Rereading Patricia Meyer Spacks

“Patricia Meyer Spacks . . . is something of a rarity among those

who practice her trade these days: She reads for pure pleasure

as well as for professional obligations, and she understands that

pleasure is a legitimate, valuable goal in and of itself. Reading

fiction has the power to expose one to large truths about human

existence, but there is more to it than that . . . An excellent book.”

—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

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No Enemies, No Hatred Selected Essays and Poems Liu Xiaobo Edited by Perry Link • Tienchi Martin-Liao • Liu XiaForeword by Vaclav Havel

★ A Wall Street Journal Best Book

“[These] essays offer the best analysis I have read of

what’s wrong in the People’s Republic of China.”

—Jonathan Mirosky, New York Times Book Review

“Liu’s writing is most personal when writing about

Tiananmen, but all of the essays display a distinctly

humane spirit. He takes evident pride in the changes

that ordinary Chinese have brought about despite the

Communist Party’s tight grip on power.”

—Ellen Bork, Wall Street Journal

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An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

“Spivak is one of the most creative and influential

scholars of the humanities of the past four decades; this

volume shows the range and variety of her interests in

topics ranging from Jacques Derrida, postcolonial stud-

ies, women in the Global South, migration in a global

(arguably ‘planetary’) era, translation, and aesthetic

education . . . She brings a profound knowledge of literary

and cultural theory to her studies of ‘culture on the run,

the vanishing present.’ Some of the essays here are clas-

sics, others will become so.”

—K. Tölölyan, Choice

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N e w i n P a p e r b a c k

Gothicka Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural

Victoria Nelson

★ PROSE Award, Association of American Publishers

“[A] spirited examination of

the role of pulp Gothic fiction

in contemporary culture . . .

Nelson’s overview of the

origins of the Gothic genre

and its later ramification into

sub-genres such as the ghost

story, vampire tale, esoteric

thriller and post-apocalyptic

survival narrative is lively and

sharp. She is equally at home

discussing high and low art,

and is at her most persuasive

when tracing the literary evo-

lution of specific motifs.”

— Elizabeth Lowry,

Wall Street Journal

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Stranger Magic Charmed States and the Arabian Nights Marina Warner ★ Truman Capote Award★ National Book Critics Circle Award★ A Barnes & Noble Review Best Nonfiction Selection★ A Guardian “Authors’ Favorites” Book ★ A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice★ A Publishers Weekly Best Book★ A Guardian Best Book★ A Times Literary Supplement Best Book

“Marina Warner is a veteran magus, and an adept mythog-

rapher of the vast global traditions of magic, metaphor

and myth.”

—Harold Bloom, New York Times Book Review

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The Keats Brothers The Life of John and George Denise Gigante ★ A New York Times Notable Book★ A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

“Gigante has had the clever idea of telling the stories of

John and George as parallel lives, a dual biography of

brothers . . . The challenge for Gigante is to give suffi-

ciently rich detail concerning George’s travels in America

to outweigh the conspicuous achievement gap between

the two brothers. Mostly, she succeeds brilliantly . . . The

book ends splendidly . . . with the apparition of Oscar

Wilde, long after George’s death by tuberculosis in 1841,

lecturing on John Keats, ‘the real Adonis of our age,’ to

the people of Louisville in 1882, and admiring Keats’s

manuscripts in the hands of his niece, Emma.”

— Christopher Benfey, New York Times Book Review

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New i n Pa p e r b a c k

The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper Introduction by Domhnall Martin Mitchell

The action of The Prairie

(1827) unfolds against the

backdrop of the grasslands

beyond the Mississippi, just

after the Louisiana Purchase,

in the early days of western

expansion. It features

Cooper’s most celebrated lit-

erary creation, Natty Bumppo,

now aged and reduced to

making a living by trapping.

The John Harvard Library

edition reproduces the au-

thoritative text of the novel

from The Writings of James

Fenimore Cooper.

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The Image of the Black in Western ArtEdited by David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

★ A New York Times Holiday Gift Guide Selection

“A truly epic project . . . The series [is] as eye-opening to view as it is to read and,

one volume at a time, could be the answer to gift giving for several years to come.”

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Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 1: The Impact of Africa

2012 384 pp. 9780674052673 195 color illus., 25 halftones

Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 2: Black Models and White Myths


Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1: Slaves and Liberators


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Orpheus in the Marketplace Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence Tim Carter • Richard A. Goldthwaite ★ A New York Times Holiday Gift Pick

“Quietly thrilling . . . [Carter and Goldthwaite] offer a sustained analysis

of a recently discovered trove of account books belonging to Jacopo

Peri (1561–1633), one of the earliest opera composers. What they

reveal has implications for both music history and our understanding

of an economy and society in transition, and is a model of interdisci-

plinary collaboration in the humanities . . . Even ordinary music lovers

will find the exploration of the still underrated Peri intriguing.”

—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times

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Printing a Mediterranean World Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography Sean Roberts

“Through his meticulous study of Francesco Berlinghieri’s Geographia,

Roberts deftly touches on some of the most timely and topical

areas of recent research in the field of early modern studies: Artistic

agency, materiality, patronage, print culture—and the nature of ‘the

Renaissance’ itsel.” —Giancarlo Casale, University of Minnesota

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De nobilitate animi Guillelmus de Aragonia Edited and translated by William D. Paden • Mario Trovato

This edition presents the Latin text, based on six manuscripts,

three of them hitherto unknown, along with an English transla-

tion. An introduction reviews Guillelmus’s life and work, consid-

ering his theory of nobility in the contexts of history, philosophy,

and rhetoric, and studies the authorities he quotes with particu-

lar attention to the troubadours, lyric poets from the area known

today as the south of France.

Harvard Studies in Medieval Latin 2 | Harvard University Department of the Classics�2013�210 pp.�2 tables�$40.00 | £29.95�cloth�9780674068124

City, Chant, and the Topography of Early MusicEDITED BY Michael Scott Cuthbert • Sean Gallagher • Christoph Wol·

Cultural landscape and geography have affected the history of

Western music from its earliest manifestations to the present

day. This volume brings together essays by thirteen leading

scholars that explore ways that space, urban life, landscape,

and time transformed plainchant and other musical forms. In

addressing a broad array of topics and regions—ranging from

Beneventan chant in Italy and Dalmatia, to music theory in

medieval France, to later transformations of chant in Iceland

and Spain—these essays honor and build upon Thomas Forrest

Kelly’s work in keeping cultural, geographic, and political fac-

tors close to the heart of the musicology of chant, early music,

and beyond.

Harvard Publications in Music 23 | Isham Library Papers 8Harvard Department of Music�2013�368 pp.�82 line illus., 24 halftones, 28 tables�$45.00 | £33.95�cloth�9780964031746

Four Seasons of FlowersA Selection of Botanical Illustrations from the Rare Book Collection at Dumbarton OaksLinda Lott

This illustrated volume presents a selection of the manuscripts,

herbals, and printed botanical texts from the Rare Book Col-

lection at Dumbarton Oaks. Representing pivotal works in the

intellectual history of Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth

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