Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood – what constitutes a self – have changed over time,...

This is a book about remoteness: a memoir of places observed in solitude, of the texture of life through the quiet course of the seasons in the far north of Scotland. It is a book grounded in the singularity of one place – a house in northern Aberdee...

English law underwent rapid transformation in the sixteenth century, in response to the Reformation and also to heightened litigation and legal professionalization. As the common law became more comprehensive and systematic, the principle of jurisdic...

In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture – a tone or style that came to be called the sentimental. The sentimental mode went on to shape not just literature, art, music, and cinema, but people's very...

The Lectures on Poetics Series at the University of Frankfurt VI has hosted many illustrious speakers at its lectern, including Ingeborg Bachmann, Theodor Adorno, and Heinrich Boll. At the beginning of 2007, Urs Widmer – described by the "Independent...

Selected from the pages of "Le Monde", the interviews conducted by Florence Noiville are unequaled in literary journalism. In "Literary Miniatures", Noiville captures the words and views of some of the best known writers of the twentieth century, eng...

"Aeschylus I" contains "The Persians", translated by Seth Benardete; "The Seven Against Thebes", translated by David Grene; "The Suppliant Maidens", translated by Seth Benardete; and "Prometheus Bound", translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the...

"Aeschylus II" contains "The Oresteia", translated by Richmond Lattimore, and fragments of "Proteus", translated by Mark Griffith. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedie...

"Greek Tragedies, Volume I" contains Aeschylus's "Agamemnon",‌ translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound",‌ translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Oedipus the King",‌ translated by David Grene; Sophocles's "Antigone",‌ translat...

"Greek Tragedies, Volume II" contains Aeschylus's "The Libation Bearers", translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles's "Electra", translated by David Grene; Euripides's "Iphigenia among the Taurians", translated by Anne Carson; Euripides's "Electra"...