Invisible Monuments: Tribute, Memory, and the Summoning of the Past

“Howard Mansfield has never written an uninteresting or dull sentence. All of his books are emotionally and intellectually nourishing. He is something like a cultural psychologist along with being a first-class cultural historian. He is humane, witty, bright-minded, and rigorously intelligent. His deep subject is Time: how we deal with it and how it deals with us.” —Guy Davenport, poet, translator, critic, and author of The Death of Picasso and The Geography of the Imagination

We live in an...