Product Description: Mario Praz (1896 1982) was among the great scholar / critics of the last century. His studies of icon­ography and seventeenth-century art remain unsurpassed and indispensable. His most famous work, The Romantic Agony, examines the themes of sexuality and morbidity that permeated so much late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature...read more

Product Description: This is a collection of writings by the American chemist and home economist, Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards. From the Preface by Kazuko Sumida: Ellen H. Swallow Richards (1842–1911) was the first woman graduate and staff member at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the first woman professional chemist in the U...read more

Product Description: Célebre crítico de arte, autor de numerosos ensayos que, en esta edificante y encantandora obra, permite a los lectores examinar y admirar los innumerables objetos artísticos que a lo largo de su vida fueron poblando su casa (hoy casa-museo en Roma)...read more

Product Description: Documento fundamental para comprender la sensibilidad y la mentalidad europea del siglo pasado, esta obra es ya un clásico de la historiografía y la crítica literarias. En su búsqueda y fijación de los temas recurrentes, Mario Praz visita el lado más oscuro de las literaturas francesa, inglesa e italiana del Romanticismo, ...read more

Paintings, watercolors, and sketches show the interiors of Greek and Roman, medieval, Renaissance, and Victorian homes in England and Europe

Product Description: In this now-classic study, Praz describes the whole of Romantic literature under one of its most characteristic aspects, that of erotic sensibility. This wide spread mood in literature had a major effect on 19th-century poets and painters, and the affinities between them and their 20th-century counterparts makes this account of the Romantic-Decadents an indispensible guide to the study of modern literature...read more

Product Description: From the time of Chaucer to the present we follow the sense of Italy and Italian thought and imagination which has directed and enlivened the works of major English writers—Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne, Crashaw, and the Brownings among them...read more