In 1997 and 1998 the following books by past Fellows of the National Humanities Center were published or were added to the Center's collection. You can find information on the nearly 700 books Fellows of the Center have written located under the "Advanced Study" section of this Web site.

Allen, John J. (Fellow 1989-90), ed. El gran teatro del mundo, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Edited by John J. Allen and Domingo Ynduráin. Biblioteca clásica, 72. Barcelona: Crítica, 1997.

Anderson, Judith H. (Fellow 1995-96). Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

Anderson, T. J. (Fellow 1996-97). Huh! (What Did You Say?) For Violin, String Trio and B-flat Clarinet. New York: American Composers Alliance, 1997.

Bay, Edna G. (Fellow 1993-94). Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998.

Bennett, Judith M. (Fellow 1993-94). Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Awarded the 1998 Otto Gründler Prize by Western Michigan University, for an outstanding contribution to the field of Medieval Studies.

Brundage, W. Fitzhugh (Fellow 1995-96), ed. Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Cohen, Patricia Cline (Fellow 1994-95). The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life And Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.

Davidson, Cathy N. (Fellow 1995-96). Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory. By Bill Bamberger and Cathy N. Davidson. The Lyndhurst Series on the South. Durham, N.C.: Center for Documentary Studies; New York: W. W. Norton, 1998.

de Schaepdrijver, Sophie (Fellow 1995-96). De Groote Oorlog: Het koninkrijk België tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Amsterdam: Atlas, 1997.

Douglas, Ann (Fellow 1978-79). Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1995. Winner of the Merle Curti Award for 1995-96 from the Organization of American Historians, the Albert J. Beveridge Award for 1995 from the American Historical Association, and the Trilling Award for 1995 from Columbia University.

Duval, Edwin M. (Fellow 1992-93). The Design of Rabelais's "Tiers Livre de Pantagruel." Travaux d'humanisme et Renaissance no. 316; Etudes rabelaisiennes t. 34. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1997.

Ellis, David (Fellow 1991-92). D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game, 1922-1930. The Cambridge Biography--D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Fairclough, Adam (Fellow 1994-95), ed. The Star Creek Papers, by Horace Mann Bond and Julia W. Bond. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.

Fink, Leon (Fellow 1990-91). Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Fish, Stanley (Fellow 1991-92; 1997-98). Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Fluck, Winfried (Fellow 1987-88). Das kulturelle Imaginäre: Eine Funktionsgeschichte des amerikanischen Romans, 1790-1900. Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft, 1279. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1997.

Flynn, Thomas R. (Fellow 1991-92). Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason. Vol. 1: Toward an Existentialist Theory of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Fokkelman, J. P. (Fellow 1990-91). Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible: At the Interface of Hermeneutics and Structural Analysis. Vol. 1: Ex. 15, Deut. 32, and Job 3. Studia Semitia Neerlandica. Assen, Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 1998.

French, John D. (Fellow 1995-96), ed. The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box. Edited by John D. French and Daniel James. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

Gilly, Adolfo (Fellow 1991-92; 1996-97). Chiapas: la razón ardiente. Ensayo sobre la rebelión del mundo encantado. Colección Problemas de México. Mexico, D.F.: Ediciones Era, 1997.

Gregerson, Linda (Fellow 1991-92). The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Harris, Trudier (Fellow 1996-97), ed. Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition. General editor, Patricia Liggins Hill; editors, Bernard W. Bell, Trudier Harris et al. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

________. The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology. General editor, William L. Andrews; editors, Minrose C. Gwin, Trudier Harris, and Fred Hobson. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998.

________. The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Edited by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Harrison, Antony H. (Fellow 1981-82), ed. The Letters of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1: 1843-1873. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997.

Heil, John (Fellow 1996-97). Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction. Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1998.

Heyrman, Christine Leigh (Fellow 1985-86). Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Awarded the Bancroft Prize by Columbia University, 1998, recognizing a book of exceptional merit in history.

Higham, John (Fellow 1987-88; 1988-89), ed. Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations since World War II. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

Hirsch, Marianne (Fellow 1992-93). Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Hoppen, K. Theodore (Fellow 1985-86). The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-1886. New Oxford History of England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Inwood, Brad (Fellow 1995-96), ed. Assent and Argument: Studies in Cicero's "Academic Books": Proceedings of the 7th Symposium Hellenisticum (Utrecht, August 21-25, 1995). Edited by Brad Inwood and Jaap Mansfeld. Philosophia Antiqua, vol. 76. Leiden: Brill, 1997.

Kane, George (Fellow 1987-88), ed. See Russell, George, ed., Piers Plowman: The C Version. Will's Visions of Piers Plowman, Do-well, Do-better and Do-best.

Kaplan, Temma (Fellow 1989-90). Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Kerber, Linda K. (Fellow 1990-91). Toward an Intellectual History of Women: Essays. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Knoepflmacher, U. C. (Fellow 1995-96). Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy Tales, and Femininity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

________, ed. Children's Literature, Volume 25. Edited by Mitzi Myers and U. C. Knoepflmacher. Annual of the Modern Language Association Division on Children's Literature and the Children's Literature Association. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Konstan, David (Fellow 1994-95). Friendship in the Classical World. Key Themes in Ancient History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Kretzmann, Norman (Fellow 1992-93). The Metaphysics of Theism: Aquinas's Natural Theology in "Summa contra gentiles" I. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

Lopez, Donald S., Jr. (Fellow 1996-97). Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Mazower, Mark (Fellow 1993-94). Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century. London: Allen Lane, 1998.

Miller, Joshua I. (Fellow 1993-94). Democratic Temperament: The Legacy of William James. American Political Thought. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.

Minault, Gail (Fellow 1987-88). Secluded Scholars: Women's Education and Muslim Social Reform in Colonial India. Gender Studies Series. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Muir, Edward (Fellow 1992-93). Ritual in Early Modern Europe. New Approaches to European History, 11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Noonan, John T., Jr. (Fellow 1990-91). The Lustre of Our Country: The American Experience of Religious Freedom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Peterson, Richard A. (Fellow 1989-90). Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Pfaff, Richard W. (Fellow 1996-97). Liturgical Calendars, Saints, and Services in Medieval England. Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS610. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 1998.

Powell, Richard J. (Fellow 1995-96). Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997.

Ringer, Fritz (Fellow 1993-94). Max Weber's Methodology: The Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Ritvo, Harriet (Fellow 1989-90). The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Röhl, John C. G. (Fellow 1997-98). Purple Secret: Genes, "Madness" and the Royal Houses of Europe. By John C. G. Röhl, Martin Warren, and David Hunt. London: Bantam Press, 1998.

Russell, George (Fellow 1982-83), ed. Piers Plowman: The C Version. Will's Visions of Piers Plowman, Do-well, Do-better and Do-best. Edited by George Russell and George Kane. Piers Plowman--The Three Versions, 3. London: Athlone Press, 1997.

Schrecker, Ellen (Fellow 1994-95). Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998.

Shionoya, Yuichi (Fellow 1993-94). Schumpeter and the Idea of Social Science: A Metatheoretical Study. Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Smith, Barbara Herrnstein (Fellow 1992-93). Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Snell, Daniel C. (Fellow 1989-90). Life in the Ancient Near East, 3100-332 B.C.E. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Spear, Richard E. (Fellow 1992-93). The "Divine" Guido: Religion, Sex, Money and Art in the World of Guido Reni. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Spitzer, Leo (Fellow 1992-93). Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.

Thirsk, Joan (Fellow 1986-87). Alternative Agriculture, a History: From the Black Death to the Present Day. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph (Fellow 1985-86). Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995.

Vlastos, Stephen (Fellow 1996-97), ed. Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan. Twentieth-Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power, 9. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Wallace, David (Fellow 1989-90). Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy. Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.

West, James L. W., III (Fellow 1981-82). William Styron: A Life. New York: Random House, 1998.

Zwerdling, Alex (Fellow 1992-93). Improvised Europeans: American Literary Expatriates and the Siege of London. New York: Basic Books, 1998.

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