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Europe

William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire

Gauci Perry

ISBN: HB: 9780300166750, Yale University Press, June 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

This first-ever biography of William Beckford provides a unique look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. Even in his own time, Beckford was seen as a metaphor for the dramatic changes occurring during this era....

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Photography

William Henry Fox Talbot Beyond Photography

Dean Katrina, Ramalingam Chitra, Robson Eleanor, Brusius Mirjam, Smith Graham, Schaaf Larry J., Schaffer Simon, Wolf Herta

ISBN: HB: 9780300179347, Yale University Press, June 2013
328 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 colour illus.

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age – a time that saw many political, social, intellectual, technical, and industrial changes. His manuscripts,...

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Poetry

Westerly

Schutt Will, Phillips Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780300188516, ISBN: HB: 9780300188509, Yale University Press, May 2013
96 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

A young soldier dons Napoleon's hat. An out-of-work man wanders Berlin, dreaming he is Peter the Great. The famous exile Dante finally returns to his native city to "hang his crown of laurels up". Familial and historical apparitions haunt this dazzli...

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Literary Criticism

Why X Matters

Why Trilling Matters

Kirsch Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780300187823, ISBN: HB: 9780300152692, Yale University Press, February 2013
192 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm

Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America's preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. His was an age when literary criticism and ideas seemed to matter profoundly in the intellectual lif...

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Europe

Watchful Clothier The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Protestant Capitalist

Kadane Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300169614, Yale University Press, January 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

A clothier and a deeply religious man, Joseph Ryder faithfully kept a diary from 1733 until his death, two and a half million words later, in 1768. Recently rediscovered and brilliantly interpreted by historian Matthew Kadane, Ryder's diary provides...

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History of Art

Weatherbeaten Winslow Homer and Maine

Denenberg Thomas A., Bolton Kenyon, O'Gorman James F., Simpson Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300184426, Yale University Press, January 2013
184 pp., 20.3x26.7 cm, 73 colour images, 24 black&white illus.

In 1883 American artist Winslow Homer moved his studio from New York City to Prouts Neck, a slip of coastline just south of Portland, Maine. Here, over the course of 25 years, Homer produced his most celebrated and emotionally powerful paintings, whi...

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Geriatrics

Winning Strategies for Successful Aging

Pfeiffer Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780300184020, Yale University Press, January 2013
192 pp., 21x14 cm

For anyone who is approaching a 65th birthday with trepidation, this valuable book offers heartening advice on navigating the later years of life. Dr. Eric Pfeiffer, who for thirty years has cared for – and learned from – elderly people, addresses wi...

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Contemporary Art

Wim Delvoye Introspective

Dannatt Adrian, Duquenne Olivier, Marcade Bernard, Swauwaert Dirk, Verschaffel Bart

ISBN: HB: 9780300188677, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2012
384 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 317 colour and black&white illus.

Wim Delvoye (b. 1965) is known for his inventive and often controversial projects, and his work has been exhibited around the world. One of a generation of Belgian artists who have revolutionized contemporary art, Delvoye explores the body and its fu...

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History of Art

William Burton Conyngham and His Irish Circle of Antiquarian Artists

Harbison Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300180725, Yale University Press, May 2012
288 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 100 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

In the midst of a resurgence of pride in Ireland's history during the 18th century, William Burton, later Conyngham (1733-1796), strove to emulate his British counterparts in producing albums of engravings illustrating the beauties of the country's h...

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Biography & Memoires

Witness to History The Life of John Wheeler-Bennett

Schofield Victoria

ISBN: HB: 9780300179019, Yale University Press, May 2012
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Historian Sir John Wheeler-Bennett (1902-1975) was one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary political observers. Through an ability to make important connections, he became an authority on Germany in the interwar years and was acquainted wit...

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