The latest installment of Yale French Studies explores the history and development of bande dessinee, Franco-Belgian comics. This special issue of "Yale French Studies" on bande dessinee is a multifaceted reflection on its newfound academic status....

Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas unfolds in "The Refracted Muse", the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence – not just among Spaniards working in the developing scienc...

Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare's Roman plays – "Coriolanus", "Julius Caeser", and "Antony and Cleopatra" – in his landmark "Shakespeare's Rome" (1976). With "Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy", he now argues that these plays form an integrated tri...

For more than forty years, Paul Cantor's "Shakespeare's Rome" has been a foundational work in the field of politics and literature. While many critics assumed that the Roman plays do not reflect any special knowledge of Rome, Cantor was one of the fi...

Just as today's embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, so in eighteenth-century Britain the dramatic proliferation of print gave rise to urgent efforts to historicize different media forms and to understand their...

What is a hostile environment? How exactly can feelings be mixed? What on earth might it mean when someone writes that he was "happily situated" as a slave? The answers, of course, depend upon whom you ask. Science and the humanities typically offe...

"Bergeners" is a love letter to a writer's hometown. The book opens in New York City at the swanky Standard Hotel and closes in Berlin at Askanischer Hof, a hotel that has seen better days. But between these two global metropolises we find Bergen, No...

"I wrote a poem this morning, and one of the themes of the poem is that languages are not equivalent, that each language is a new way of feeling the world" – Jorge Luis Borges Recorded during Borges' final years, this third volume of his conversatio...

Our taste buds are a powerful way for humans to know beauty and experience beautiful things. In Taste, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated as a means to know and exper...

We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light up while we wait in the grocery store checkout line, images of all kinds are seducing us, commanding u...