Bücher der Reihe CultureWork: A Book Series from the Center for Literacy and Cultural Studies at Harvard

This collection of essays from the leading scholars in literature, philosophy, politics, and medicine casts new light on the wide range of ethical debates raging today.

This presents an account of current thinking on central issues within and beyond the humanities today. Brings together leading figures such as Sacvan Bercovitch, Helen Vendler, Anthony Appiah, Norman Bryson, Seyla Benhabib and Marjorie Garber.

Did people in early modern Europe have a concept of an inner self? Carla Mazzio and Doug Trevor have brought together an outstanding group of literary, cultural, and history scholars to answer this intriguing question.

A remarkable consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today. Peity and popular culture, public space and private, the secular and the sacred all converge in America's religious experience.

This collection of 11 essays by leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examines the double meaning of the word "forge" - to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other.

Why is biography such a popular and provocative genre? How does one 'tell a life', and what responsibilities does a biographer have to the subject and the public? Is it fair to use private tapings made by the subject's analyst?

Coverage of such major news events as the Gulf War, the AIDS epidemic and the William Kennedy Smith rape trial is analyzed by contributors who explore the languages of word and image that produce current events "as" spectacle.

The 1950's trial of the Rosenburgs on charges of 'atomic spying' came to stand in many minds for the paranoia of the Cold War. Many of the issues are still with us and the contributors draw salient connections between that time and this.