The architectural notebook of Thomas Hardy

Abstract This book explores the many poems that Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) wrote about his wife Emma Hardy (1840–1912). These poems were nearly all composed in the wak...

In the mid- late 1800s and early 1900s, Thomas Hardy produced a plethora of eclectic works that were considered too candid and even sacrilegious for their time. Hardy's publishing ...

Between May 1930 and August 1935, Dylan Thomas kept numerous notebooks of poems. They contain the drafts of almost all of the work that would form his first two reputation-making c...

This chapter examines a little-known item called ‘Justine Mahler’s Faust Notebook’ located in the Mahler-Rosé Room at the University of Western Ontario. This document, entirely in ...

What role do novels, drama, and tragedy play within Christian thought and living? The twentieth century Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar addressed these questions using t...

Covering all regions of Italy—from Turin's Palace of Labor in northern Italy to the Monreale Cathedral and Cloister in Sicily—and all periods of Italian architecture—from the first...

At a time of unprecedented levels of change in the production of building materials and their deployment in construction, better theoretical and historical tools are needed to unde...

A fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s five built works, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning. Much h...