In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval... more

"Prison haunts our civilization," writes Victor Brombert. "Object of fear, it is also a subject of poetic reverie...... more

, Victor Brombert provides a close and complex analysis of Flaubert s art in relation to his tragic themes. A voiding undue...... more

In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval... more

"Prison haunts our civilization," writes Victor Brombert. "Object of fear, it is also a subject of poetic reverie...... more

"Do not let the peasant know how good cheese is with pears" goes the old saying. Intrigued by these ... more

We often look to the theater for spectacle and wonder, but in opera, we find pure enchantment. What ... more

, Victor Brombert s heady explorations of sex and love were cut short by the rise of Nazi power and the Vichy Regime. His...... more

of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero-the antihero-has arisen to replace the...... more

Italo Svevo’s early novel Senilità (1898) remained unknown for many years until James Joyce encounte... more

The story of a Parisian school boy belonging to a Protestant bourgeois family, who, though fascinate... more

"Manet comes alive in [Brombert’s] pages. . . . At times her biography reads like a substantial and detailed 19...... more

Brombert shows how a text works--its structure and narrative devices, and the symbolic function of characters, episodes...... more

Victor Brombert reassesses in a modern perspective the power and originality of Hugo’s work, and provides a new...... more

Brombert looks back on a lifetime of learning within a university world greatly altered since he entered Yale on the GI Bill in...... more

The work of Andrew Bromberg, creative director of the global architecture and design practice Aedas ... more

Victor Brombert is a lion in the study of French literature, and in this classic of literary criticism, he turns his...... more

All art and the love of art, Victor Brombert writes at the beginning of the deeply personal Musings on Mortality...... more

Known for his entertaining investigations into culinary practice, Massimo Montanari turns his hungry... more

All art and the love of art, Victor Brombert writes at the beginning of the deeply personal Musings on Mortality...... more

Massimo Montanari draws readers into the far-flung story of how local and global influences came to ... more

Known for his entertaining investigations into culinary practice, Massimo Montanari turns his hungry... more

The unnamed narrator of this slim, alluring novel recalls a summer spent at age sixteen on an idylli... more

Do not let the peasant know how good cheese is with pears goes the old saying. Intrigued by these w... more

Francis Steegmuller s beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a remar... more

autobiography by one of America’s most renowned literary scholars. In Trains of Thought Victor Brombert recaptures the story of his...... more

Baudelaire laid the foundations for prose poetry as a genre in the 19th century, but it wasn t until... more

of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero--the antihero--has arisen to replace the...... more