A comprehensive analysis of how formal innovations in the modernist novel (1900-1940) captured the history of the period.

Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space.

Traces how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. This work examines the causal factors or motives for murder - ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology.

This text examines the portrayal of love in literature and art over a period of change from Jane Eyre (1847) to the mid-1930s, focusing on basic elements of love - embodiment, desire, language, sex and power - along with specific situations - waiting, proposing, jealousy, wedding and ending.