Wednesday 13 May 2020

My favourite academic books

Monographs, not compilation of essays or stand-alone articles. In no particular order. I shall keep adding to this list as I remember more works which have stayed with me.

When an academic is also a fiction writer or a poet, the book is often very readable if one knows enough about the subject being discussed. C.S. Lewis’s The Allegory of Love has several sentences which made me appreciate his writing style. Alas, I do not know enough French to complete the book.

1. Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500–1800 (1983)

2. Erica Fudge, Brutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England (2006)

3. Penguin Monarchs series

4. Edward Said, Orientalism (1978)

5. Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought  (1978)

6. Philippe Ariès, The Hour of our Death. Translated by Helen Weaver. Originally published as L’homme devant la mort (1977)

7. Wallace K. Ferguson, The Renaissance in Historical Thought (1948)

8. David Perkins, Romanticism and Animal Rights (2003)

9. Sharmistha Gooptu, Bengali Cinema: An Other Nation (2010)

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