【作者简介】亚历山大·李是英国华威大学文艺复兴研究中心研究员，另著有《马基雅维利》等，为《华尔街日报》《卫报》《今日历史》《泰晤士报文学增刊》等多家媒体撰写历史和文化题材的文章。目前居住在法国。 【译者简介】唐建清，南京大学文学院退休教师，译有《一九八四》、《在中国屏风上》、《独抒己见》、《夜色温柔》、《冯内古特短篇小说全集》（合译）、《大转向》、《现代信仰的诞生》、《欲望之火》、《安托南·阿尔托》等。

F. O. 马西森（F. O. Matthiessen）是美国文学和美国研究领域有影响力的教育家、学者和文学评论家。他著名的作品《美国文艺复兴：爱默生与惠特曼时代的艺术和表现》颂扬了几位19世纪美国作家的成就，并对一代学者产生了深远的影响。

F. O. 马西森（F. O. Matthiessen）是美国文学和美国研究领域有影响力的教育家、学者和文学评论家。他著名的作品《美国文艺复兴：爱默生与惠特曼时代的艺术和表现》颂扬了几位19世纪美国作家的成就，并对一代学者产生了深远的影响。

This text has taken its place as the definitive treatment of the most distinguished age of American literature. Centering the discussion around five literary giants of the mid-nineteenth century-Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. Matthiessen elucidates their conceptions of the nature and function of literature, and the extent to which these were realized in the...(展开全部)

How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his birth is engulfed by terror? These are some of the questions that engage Valentine Daniel in this exploration of life and death in...(展开全部)

The Bureaucracy of Beauty is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire. Professor Ananya Roy of UC Berkeley calls it a "fantastic book," and in many ways this is the best description of it. The Bureaucracy of Beauty begins with nineteenth-century Britain's...(展开全部)

The Bureaucracy of Beauty is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies, postcoloniality, the history of architecture and design, and the history and present of empire. Professor Ananya Roy of UC Berkeley calls it a "fantastic book," and in many ways this is the best description of it. The Bureaucracy of Beauty begins with nineteenth-century Britain's...(展开全部)

When modern primary schools were first founded in Japan and Egypt in the 1870s, they did not teach art. By the middle of the twentieth century, art education was a permanent part of Japanese and Egyptian primary schooling. Both countries taught music and drawing, and wartime Japan also taught calligraphy. Why did art education become a core feature of schooling in societies as ...(展开全部)

When modern primary schools were first founded in Japan and Egypt in the 1870s, they did not teach art. By the middle of the twentieth century, art education was a permanent part of Japanese and Egyptian primary schooling. Both countries taught music and drawing, and wartime Japan also taught calligraphy. Why did art education become a core feature of schooling in societies as ...(展开全部)

Is reading under threat? No, says Alan Jacobs--but people do need help iand encouragemnt to enjoy it to the full. Jacobs's experience as a lecturer and many-time author suggests that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that re...(展开全部)