Patrick Edward Coleman

The Nonpartisan League, 1915-22: An Annotated Bibliography

The Western Pacific: Island Arcs, Marginal Seas, Geochemistry

Confessions

Adolphe

Representations of the Self from the Renaissance to Romanticism

Culture And Authority in the Baroque

Montesquieu and the Spirit of Modernity

Reparative Realism: Mourning and Modernity in the French Novel, 1730-1830

Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the w...

Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)

In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the w...

Social Standing in America

Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer

Anger, Gratitude, and the Enlightenment Writer examines how writers as diverse as Rousseau, Diderot, Marivaux, and Challe discuss the social appropriateness of anger and gratitude in regulating social life. Emotions are social transactions, with rules identifying when and where it is appropriate to ...

The Art of Music

The Art of Music is a handsomely illustrated and rich interdisciplinary look at the mutual influence between music and the visual arts across cultures and eras. The book sheds new light on more familiar artists at the intersection of the visual and the musical, such as Wassily Kandinsky and Arnold S...

Sentimental Education (Oxford World's Classics)

'For certain men the stronger their desire, the less likely they are to act.'With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frederic Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but when he pursues her to Paris the young student is unable to translate his passion into decisive action. He also fi...

The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)

Sexual attraction, artistic insight, and the often ironic relationship between them are the dominant themes in the three short works by Balzac collected in this volume. In Sarrasine, an impetuous young sculptor falls in love with a diva of the Roman stage, but rapture turns to rage when he discovers...

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Oxford World's Classics)

In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If inequality is intolerable - and Rousseau shows with unparalledled eloquence how it robs us not only of our material but also of our psychological independenc...