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...