The Social History of Art: Volume 3: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism

7 best books like The Social History of Art: Volume 3: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism (Arnold Hauser): Much Ado About Nothing, Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Orientalism, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Foe, Undine, The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro / The Guilty Mother

Much Ado About Nothing

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0743482751

Much Ado About Nothing, abridged.

CLAUDIO: So, um, Hero, I sorta maybe like you a whole lot will you go to the prom with me?

HERO: We should get married! Squeeeeeee!

BEATRICE: Pfft. Love is for stupid losers who are stupid.

BENEDICK: You know, you might get laid more...

Virginia Woolf: A Biography

Author	Quentin Bell
ISBN	0156935805

Virginia Woolf was the fiercely brainy and extremely posh girl I would have been far too shy to even dream of speaking to, had I been around then.

But, in an alternative slipstream of history, it turned out that I was alive at the time, and blow me down, there she was in the Smoke Room at the Old Butcher's...

Orientalism

Author

Edward W. Said

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.

In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism"...

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Author	Walter Benjamin
ISBN	0141036192

One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books...

Foe

Author

J.M. Coetzee

With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians , J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe—and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself

In 1720 the eminent man of letters...

Undine

Author

Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué

"Most artistic of all the continental weird tales is the German classic Undine (1814), by Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte FouquE. In this story of a water-spirit who married a mortal and gained a human soul there is a delicate fineness of craftsmanship which makes it notable in any department...

The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro / The Guilty Mother

Author	Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
ISBN	0192804138

Eighteenth-century France produced only one truly international theater star, Beaumarchais, and only one name, Figaro, to combine with Don Quixote and D'Artagnan in the ranks of popular myth. But who was Figaro? He was quickly appropriated by Mozart and Rossini who tamed the original impertinent,...