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VA01-137 Shakespeare's Insults: A Pragmatic Dictionary.
  Vienne-Guerrin, Nathalie/ 9780826498335
 
 
VA01-138 James Joyce, 4-Vols/Set.
  Milton, Colin/ 9780415491822
 
 
VA01-136 Shakespeare's Demonology: Witches, Devils, Fairies and Ghosts.
  Gibson, Marion/ 9780826498342
 
 
PA01-97-4 Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part IV, 3-Vols/Set.
  Marshall, Gail/ 9781851969302
 
  Continuing our series on actors who were significant for their outstanding or innovative performance of Shakespeare, this fourth part examines the lives of three pivotal female Shakespearian actors. Lucia Elizabeth Vestris initially made her fortune as a contralto opera singer. A favourite in male roles she found immediate fame in both Paris and London. In 1838 she married actor Charles James Matthews, under whose management she restored much of the text of A Midsummer Night¡¦s Dream, casting herself as Oberon for the production and inaugurating a tradition of women playing the role which lasted more than seventy years. Fanny Kemble was the oldest daughter of actor Charles Kemble and niece of noted tragedienne Sarah Siddons. An accomplished actor in her own right, she enjoyed success both at home and abroad, introducing Shakespeare to new audiences in the United States. Fanny published a number of plays and memoirs throughout her life, including Journal of A Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838¡V1839; a reflection on her failed marriage to American plantation-owner Piers Butler and abolitionist attack upon what she called "the dreaded institution" of slavery. Also from a theatrical background, Helena Faucit joined the Covent Garden theatre company in 1836, where she worked alongside both William Charles Macready and Charles Kemble in roles such as Juliet, Imogen, Hermione and Beatrice. Macready, who considered her the best actress of the period, remained a dominant presence in her career until 1845 when she reportedly received so much applause for a performance that he refused to act with her again. This facsimile edition is backed up by full scholarly apparatus and will appeal to those undertaking research in Shakespearian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Studies and the History of the Theatre and Performance.
PA01-57-9 Defoe's Review 1712, 2-Vols/Set.
  McVeagh, John/ 9781851969111
 
  Review of the State of the British Nation was one of Daniel Defoe¡¦s greatest but least known works. It covered his many interests, both literary and historical, and was published twice and latterly three times a week in a tiny print run of 400. Surviving copies are very rare and the condition of the originals is poor. Defoe¡¦s Review played a significant role in the birth of the modern press. It was not a newspaper dealing in facts but a journal of opinion and discussion. Along with politics, war, trade and religion, Defoe also used the Review as an outlet for his amazing curiosity about ordinary human concerns. Defoe¡¦s Review tapped into a new cultural community, helping to create the climate for Steele and Addison to develop the Tatler and Spectator in later years. But in some ways it was itself the most interesting example ¡V as it was the first ¡V of a new genre: the eighteenth-century periodical essay. This series is the first complete scholarly edition of the entire run of Defoe's Review. It is fully reset and supported by full editorial apparatus, including a general introduction, volume prefaces, endnotes and an index in each volume. It will be useful to scholars researching the history and literature of the eighteenth century, as well as the history of print and the book.
PA01-147-1 Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, The., Part I, 4-Vols/Set.
  Shattock, Joanne/ 9781851966592
 
  This is the most ambitious scholarly critical edition of Oliphant¡¦s work ever undertaken. The sheer scale of her output has meant that selection is essential, but the edition aims to convey the range and variety of her work in both fiction and non-fictional genres. It will bring together for the first time her critical writing and other journalism for Blackwood¡¦s Edinburgh Magazine, the Spectator, the St James¡¦s Gazette, as well as her articles in the Contemporary Review, the Edinburgh, and Macmillan¡¦s Magazine. Much of her fiction, including full length novels, short stories and novellas, was first published in periodicals: in Blackwood¡¦s, the Cornhill, Longman¡¦s Magazine, Macmillan¡¦s, and Good Words. Few of her manuscripts survive, but substantive textual work remains to be done on the editorial changes made between periodical serialization and first appearance in volume form. The edition will place particular emphasis on her shorter fiction, much of which will be reprinted for the first time, and on her work as a biographer, historian, and literary historian.
PA01-146-1 Women's Travel Writings in Post-Napoleonic France, Part I, 4-Vols/Set.
  Bending, Stephen/ 9781851966554
 
  This eight-volume facsimile set comprises firsthand accounts of continental travel in the early nineteenth century. In Part I Anne Carter witnesses the monarchy¡¦s return to power and the capital in her visit to Paris, while Frances Jane Carey ranges all over the country and particularizes the customs and everyday existence of its people. Marianne Baillie ventures much further afield in her 1819 work, exploring France, Italy, and Switzerland, among other nations, while Elizabeth Byron daringly rides a boat along the Loire, defying the gendarmes as she navigates the culture and history she finds on the river¡¦s banks as well as the contemporary political exchanges that threaten to stop her tour. Each writer is excited about visiting new realms while also affirming the differences between their own country¡¦s practices and landscapes and those they witness on their Continental tours. Part II deals with two longer works: Frances Trollope provides a comparison of French and English customs and character traits, whilst managing to inject more serious observations on the state of French society post-revolution; and Lady Morgan looks at France's parallels with Ireland in a travelogue which also functions as a study of socio-political change.
PA01-145-2 Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, Part II, 4-Vols/Set.
  Whelan, Timothy/ 9781851961542
 
  This is a scholarly edition of the public and private works of a remarkable circle of women writers. The collection features ten nonconformist women including Anne Steele, Mary Steele, Mary Scott and Maria Grace Saffery, combining new editions of their previously published works with unpublished hymns, poems and letters newly transcribed from manuscripts held at the Angus Library, Oxford. Though isolated both geographically and culturally their writings reveal a group of women who were keenly aware of current events, widely read, assertive in their opinions, highly imaginative, inspired at times by romantic sensibilities far ahead of the Romantic movement, at times all too aware of the limitations placed upon them by the circumstances of their place and time, and yet they still managed to document their lives and times and to pass that legacy on from generation to generation. The edition will be of interest to those studying eighteenth century studies, women¡¦s writing and history and religious history.
PA01-145-1 Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, Part I, 4-Vols/Set.
  Whelan, Timothy/ 9781851961443
 
  This is a scholarly edition of the public and private works of a remarkable circle of women writers. The collection features ten nonconformist women including Anne Steele, Mary Steele, Mary Scott and Maria Grace Saffery, combining new editions of their previously published works with unpublished hymns, poems and letters newly transcribed from manuscripts held at the Angus Library, Oxford. Though isolated both geographically and culturally their writings reveal a group of women who were keenly aware of current events, widely read, assertive in their opinions, highly imaginative, inspired at times by romantic sensibilities far ahead of the Romantic movement, at times all too aware of the limitations placed upon them by the circumstances of their place and time, and yet they still managed to document their lives and times and to pass that legacy on from generation to generation. The edition will be of interest to those studying eighteenth century studies, women¡¦s writing and history and religious history.
PA01-144 Middle Class Writing in Late Medieval London.
  Richardson, Malcolm/ 9781848930322
 
  Whilst often portrayed as crude illiterates, Londoners in the early fourteenth century used writing in their daily lives with some sophistication. As the city¡¦s social and economic contexts changed in the late medieval period, so too did its population¡¦s writing habits. The middle classes took up writing as a way of preserving their civic rights and recording business debts, credit and real estate. This gradual acceptance of writing amongst the late medieval bourgeoisie led to the growth of ¡§private¡¨ writing, especially letter-writing, among women. Richardson explores how a powerful culture of writing was created in late medieval London, even though initially few inhabitants could actually write themselves. Whilst previous studies have tended to focus on middle class literary reading patterns, this study examines writing skills separately both from reading skills and (especially) from literature. Richardson treats the supposed orality-vs-literacy controversy with suspicion, and shows the late medieval middle classes accepting a writing culture with reasonable enthusiasm.
PA01-143 Poetry of British India, 1780-1905, The., 2-Vols/Set.
  Maire ni Fhlathuin/ 9781851969852
 
  This two-volume reset edition draws together a selection of Anglo-Indian poetry from the Romantic era and the nineteenth century. The poets engage with India in different ways: some deal with the experience of migration, others respond to the Indian landscape, whilst the wider project of British rule in India also provides an important theme. The lament, the sonnet and the comic verse are all favoured forms. This extensive body of literature is not well known, and can be accessed only in rare books and periodicals of the nineteenth century. This edition will restore a group of marginalized voices to the poetical canon. Extensive new editorial matter, including a substantial general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes, textual variants, chronologies and an index of titles and first lines will make this edition a vital resource for scholars researching Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Literature and Poetry. ¡EOffers a broad range of poetic works, including many which have not been published since their original publication ¡EAttributes works to previously unidentified authors ¡EPresents an overview of the tradition of British poetry as it developed in India during the Romantic and Victorian periods ¡EAll texts are reset, with full scholarly apparatus and indices of first lines and titles
PA01-142 Private History of the Court of England, The.: by Sarah Green.
  Price, Fiona/ 9781851962822
 
  Political satire, ¡¥secret history¡¦ and sexual expose; from its initial publication in 1808 Sarah Green¡¦s The Private History of the Court of England has met with a divided but impassioned critical reaction. Much of this response was due to Green¡¦s scathing parody of the Prince of Wales through depicting the increasing corruption of ¡¥heir apparent¡¦ (later Edward IV) during the troubled life of Henry VI. She paints a cutting portrait of greed, scandal and decadence, mocking the Prince¡¦s descent from romantic hero Florizel to debauchee. In drawing parallels between the fourteenth century and her own era, Green explores the limits of the genre whilst simultaneously addressing some of the central discourses of the period: sexual freedom, social injustice and the British national identity. In particular, this edition highlights the diversity of her writing ¡V the novel¡¦s ambitious political satire and use of the genre of historical novel is strikingly different to the commentary on the literary scene and female folly found in Romance Readers and Romance Writers, also published in Pickering & Chatto¡¦s Chawton House series. This scholarly edition of Green¡¦s novel will prove of interest both to historians and students of political thought; equally, scholars working on English national identity and the development of the genre of satire will find her approach fascinating. Whilst an important and under-researched example of women¡¦s writing, scholars of Romanticism and the nineteenth century will also find much value in this challenging political satire.
PA01-141 British Literature of World War I, 5-Vols/Set.
  Maunder, Andrew/ 9781848930421
 
  Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This five volume reset work aims to redress this balance, making available an extensive collection of short stories, novels and plays from 1914¡V19, the majority of which have not been reprinted since the early twentieth century. Many of the iconic WWI texts in the popular canon come from the 1920s and 1930s, when the years separating the writer from the conflict allowed a certain amount of studied reflection. The material presented here reflects public perception of the conflict from the time, showing the early focus on heroism, giving way to the darker sentiments of later works. Significant, too, is the focus on writers often overlooked in Great War literature, with female writers and those of working class origins presented alongside the more familiar officer-class gentlemen. ¡EMakes available a much greater variety of fictional and dramatic works by male and female authors, from the time of the conflict ¡EPerforms an important contribution to broader historical and cultural research on literary propaganda, pacifism, gender, popular fiction, class and nationhood ¡ENone of the material presented is available in modern editions, and this is the first scholarly edition for the majority of the texts ¡EIncludes a bibliography of over 400 pieces of drama (plays, sketches, musicals, pageants, revues) submitted to the Lord Chamberlain's Office during 1914¡V18
PA01-140 Widow and Wedlock Novels of Frances Trollope, The., 4-Vols/Set.
  Ayres, Brenda/ 9781848930797
 
  The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. In this four-volume critical edition her comical, yet subversive, treatment of Victorian marriage provides an interesting contrast to some of the more earnest but conventional fiction of the time. She believed that her books should deal with social issues, and influenced other writers such as Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell. The novels included here are among her most successful although they have not previously been available in scholarly editions. Published between 1839 and 1849, they were written when Trollope was a widow herself. They are significant in their focus on more mature women and their social and sexual significance. The Widow Barnaby introduces the character of the widow, bringing this vulgar yet wholly credible figure to life. The Widow Married continues with the theme of marriage, and was to influence Trollope¡¦s contemporaries, as well as her son, Anthony. The third and final book in the sequence, The Widow Wedded, draws directly on Trollope¡¦s experiences in America, allowing her further commentary on social conditions and making this a useful counterpart to her best-known non-fiction work Domestic Manners of the Americans. Trollope saw first-hand the Nashoba commune for freed slaves, as well as living in Cincinnati for a time and involving herself in the town¡¦s development. The Lottery of Marriage, while dominated by a romantic plot contains a significant subtext with both political and scientific elements. It has been out of print since 1862. This set will include a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes and endnotes. It will complement Pickering & Chatto¡¦s previous collection, The Social Problem Novels of Frances Trollope (2008).
PA01-139 Unpublished Letters of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, The., 5-Vols/Set.
  Lashmore-Davies, Adrian/ 9781851969579
 
  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678¡V1751) enjoyed varied political and literary careers. He was the friend and correspondent of leading figures across the political and religious spectrum; Hanoverian and Jacobite, Whig and Tory, Protestant and Catholic, Episcopalian and Presbyterian are all represented in his correspondence. Bolingbroke¡¦s letters therefore constitute one of the most fascinating and articulate sources of eighteenth-century European politics and culture available to modern scholars. In an age distinguished for the excellence of its letter-writing, Bolingbroke was regarded by his contemporaries as a model prose stylist. His letters are extraordinarily wide-ranging in scope and contain discussions on contemporary politics, philosophy, ancient culture, literary criticism, European history, empire, foreign policy, the textual history of the Bible, deism, theatre, travel and education. His letters to his half-sister, Henrietta Knight, shed light on his personal relationships, whilst his letters to the 1st Duke of Marlborough contain information on diplomacy and military movements during the War of the Spanish Succession, when Britain first emerged as a leading European and colonial power. This five-volume critical edition draws together Bolingbroke¡¦s unpublished letters, now scattered in public and private archives around the world. It will appeal to scholars of eighteenth-century history, philosophy and literature.
PA01-138 Robert Southey: Later Poetical Works, 1811-1838, 4-Vols/Set.
  Fulford, Tim/ 9781851969593
 
  Building on the success of Pickering & Chatto¡¦s 2004 edition of Robert Southey¡¦s early poetry, this edition of his later poetical works completes the project, forming the only collected works. Central to the new edition, and to any reappraisal of Southey¡¦s mid to late career, is Roderick. This best-selling epic romance has not been republished since 1838 and is contextualised here within Southey¡¦s wider oeuvre. This four-volume reset collection also benefits from a general introduction, volume introductions, textual variants, endnotes and a consolidated index. ¡EIncludes a section collating the eighty-two shorter poems not published in Volume 5 of Robert Southey Poetical Works 1793-1810, thus rendering the two sets into a collected edition ¡ENew editorial material includes a general introduction, volume introductions, textual variants, endnotes and a consolidated index
PA01-137 Life of Madame Necker, The.: Sin, Redemption and the Parisian Salon.
  Boon, Sonja/ 9781848930568
 
  Suzanne Curchod Necker was one of the most influential women of her day: hostess to a brilliant literary salon, wife of Jacques Necker, the politically powerful pre-revolutionary French finance minister, and mother to the great Romantic writer Germaine de Stael. Madame Necker occupies a unique position in French social and cultural history, but, dwarfed by the posthumous legacies of her husband and daughter, the last biographical study of Madame Necker was over sixty years ago. This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly corporeal nature of Madame Necker¡¦s life ¡V her debilitating, decades-long psychic and somatic suffering and subsequent curious death. Interdisciplinary in scope, but unified by its emphasis on the body as cultural construct and lived experience, this archivally-based work is informed by theoretical engagement with feminist theories of the body, performance studies and theories of auto/biography.
PA01-136 Victorian Social Activists' Novels, 4-Vols/Set.
  Lovesey, Oliver/ 9781851966295
 
  The Victorian period was a time of massive social change. Novels played a key part in this process. Whilst today the women authors of these works are better known for their campaigns and non-fiction, the novels presented in this four-volume reset edition are key in fully understanding them as individuals, as well as the causes they were fighting for. The writers of these novels were involved in various types of activism, using approaches ranging from conservative amelioration to radical militancy. Their works employ a broad variety of genres from the novel of manners, sensation, education and vocation, to allegory, romance, female bildungsroman and lesbian fiction. The position of fiction in the careers of these women is complex. Fiction writing was widely recognized as a 'profession' open to women, supplying ready money for personal expenses and for the social cause. It also permitted access to a broad readership that could not be accessed through pamphlets or periodicals, and it allowed the potential for influential literary celebrity. Moreover, romance and the novel had an important position in female education, and fiction allowed writers to voice some of their most unorthodox opinions.
PA01-135 Memoirs of Scandalous Women, 5-Vols/Set.
  Dugaw, Dianne/ 9781851968763
 
  These memoirs all come from women forced to live lives of impropriety, often after ill-treatment from unscrupulous men. Their tales of survival in the face of extreme hardship and privations make inspirational and compellin reading.This collection highlights the provocative challenges to constructions and understanding of the female character. They force readers to question the perceived rigidity of gender, glass and sexual norms and contest the sexual double standards that lay at the heart of eighteenth-century culture.
PA01-134 Asylum Writings in Nineteenth-Century Britain, 4-Vols/Set.
  Wannell, Louise/ 9781851966240
 
  Michel Foucault¡¦s seminal Madness and Civilization (1971) pioneered the history of madness as a subject for study. Medical historians have responded with studies of doctors, institutions and treatments. This four-volume edition adds patients¡¦ voices to the discourse. It draws together unpublished writings by inmates of nineteenth-century British asylums, including case reports, patient-written publications, letters and memoirs of asylum life. The collection reveals a diverse selection of patient voices offering an immediate engagement with insanity and asylum life. Sources shed light on the attitudes of society to insanity; on the medical practices involved in diagnosing, running and administering an asylum; and on what being defined as insane and/or experiencing insanity was like. The collection thus offers a rare glimpse into immediate reflections upon the experience of madness and incarceration.
PA01-133-2 Collected Letters of Ellen Terry, The., Volume 2.
  Cockin, Katharine/ 9781851961467
 
  Dame Ellen Terry (1847¡V1928) was one of the first modern stars of the British stage. She toured America and Australia and was adored by the public, and has become an icon of Victorian womanhood. A transitional figure, Terry straddled both the Victorian and the modern world. But the controversies of Terry¡¦s private life were numerous: elopement, cohabitation, single-motherhood, multiple marriages ¡V two with significant age differences ¡V yet she maintained the reputation of a thoroughly feminine woman of the age. Terry¡¦s correspondence was both exuberant and extensive. Despite falling victim to selective destruction, the remaining letters provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of the Victorian theatre, as well as the difficulties of life for a woman maintaining a successful public persona whilst raising two illegitimate children. The collection brings together material from across the world, and includes letters to many famous addressees ¡V Bram Stoker and George Bernard Shaw among them ¡V as well as many lesser- or unknown recipients who often get the best of Terry¡¦s playful prose. The collection will be of value to those with an interest in Victorian theatre, women¡¦s suffrage, and fin de siecle literature.
PA01-132-2 Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part II, 3-Vols/Set.
  Hawkins, Ann R/ 9781851964826
 
  This series reveals a different landscape for nineteenth-century women writers than we have previously imagined. Though not an exhaustive record of all the works produced by women writers of the period, those reviewed in the British periodical press nonetheless form an impressively large archive of material. This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience. Reviews come from over a hundred different periodicals, including Gentleman's Magazine, Critical Review, English Review, Antijacobin Review, Flowers of Literature, Lady's Monthly Museum, Quarterly Review, Monthly Review, Edinburgh Quarterly Review and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Each set will be fully indexed chronologically, by author, and (within each author) by title of work.
PA01-131-3 New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part III, 3-Vols/Set.
  Carolyn W de la L Oulton/ 9781851966431
 
  The novels in this collection include one by a fierce opponent to the New Woman movement, as well as two from women whose work can be seen as archetypal New Woman fiction. Ouida (real name: Maria Louise Rame) was a particularly vocal opponent of the New Woman despite creating numerous example of the type during her prolific writing career. The Massarenes (1897) is a powerful satire on the consumer society of the 1890s and the superficial values of high society. It centres on the Massarene family and their entrance into Society via despicable means. William Massarene¡¦s daughter, Katherine, rejects such ill-gotten gains, however, and follows her own path. George Egerton was the pen name of Mary Chavelita Dunne ¡V a charismatic woman whose work foreshadowed that of later female novelists such as Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf. The Wheel of God (1898) uses literary devices which can be seen as indicative of proto-modernism. Woman is here depicted as an unknowable force, and in a style that is fragmentary and episodic. It is a fascinating and unique example of women¡¦s fiction from this period. First published in 1899, Mary Cholmondeley¡¦s Red Pottage was an instant bestseller in Britain and America, provoking both admiration and scandal among its late Victorian readership. Rachel West ¡V a distinctly New Woman heroine ¡V who lies at the centre of this tale, becomes instrumental in the redemption of a dissolute male character, whom she is nonetheless unable to save. West¡¦s friend, Hester Gresley, also has a male counterpoint in her clergyman brother, who sabotages her writing by burning the manuscript of her new novel ¡V her ¡¥child¡¦. A novel of importance for its depiction of female friendship as well as its treatment of the Church, Cholmondeley¡¦s work has become more fashionable in recent years, making this edition timely.
PA01-123 Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family, The., 5-Vols/Set.
  Aplin, John/ 9781851966400
 
  Planned to mark the bicentenary of the birth of William Makepeace Thackeray in 1811, this five-volume critical edition represents the most substantial collection of hitherto unpublished material relating to the novelist and his gifted family. Drawing on just over 1300 letters in public collections, as well as on privately-owned documents, this project presents a wealth of unknown or underused sources that demand scholarly attention. Whilst complementing the already published volumes of Thackeray¡¦s letters, this important work opens up research on the complex and often troubled dynamics within the family, providing evidence for a narrative that suggests elements of psychological disorder, less than orthodox relationships and transgenerational marriage. Of particular importance in revealing Thackeray¡¦s professional life are the substantial collection of rediscovered letters sent by George Smith to the novelist relating to The Cornhill Magazine, of which Smith was founder-publisher and Thackeray the first editor. They throw new light upon the working relationship between the two men in their day-to-day planning for the magazine, and represent the largest surviving series of letters to Thackeray from a single correspondent. As well as many intimate family letters, including those between Thackeray¡¦s daughters, also represented are the extensive communications between his elder daughter Anne ¡V herself an author ¡V and many key artistic and literary figures of the time, including Alfred, Lord Tennyson, George Frederic Watts, John Ruskin, Robert Browning, George Smith, Leslie Stephen, Kate Perugini, Julia Margaret Cameron, John Everett Millais, Lord Frederic Leighton, Fanny Kemble, Henry James, J M Barrie, Margaret Oliphant, Algernon Charles Swinburne, George Meredith, Rhoda Broughton, George du Maurier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Andrew Lang, Augustine Birrell and Virginia Woolf.
PA01-112 English Nonconformist Poetry, 1660-1700, 3-Vols/Set.
  Southcombe, George/ 9781851969654
 
  The multi-faceted nature of dissenting verse is demonstrated, from the sonnets of the Quaker Martin Mason to the self-consciously ¡¥witty¡¦ acrostic used to commemorate the Fifth Monarchist Vavasor Powell¡¦s death, to the Quaker schismatic John Perrot¡¦s ¡¥A sea of the seed's sufferings¡¦. The edition is also the first to give extensive coverage to some of the most prolific and significant nonconformist poets, in particular, the Baptist Benjamin Keach and Robert Wild. English Non-Conformist poetry probes the boundaries of the poetic canon and provides the materials by which a set of silenced voices might be recovered and studied in their own right, thus revealing the cultural debt England¡¦s literary heritage owes to the dissenting tradition. The edition will contain extensive new editorial material, including a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes, textual variants, a chronology, a first line index and a general index in the final volume. It will be important for scholars studying Early Modern Literature and History, Bunyan, Milton, and Religious Studies.
VA01-66 Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary.
  Findlay, Alison/ 9780826458896
 
  Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary is a comprehensive reference guide to Shakespeare's representations of female identities. An A-Z of over 350 entries explores the female characters in Shakespearean drama, how women were represented iconically and materially on the Shakespearean stage, and their roles in Shakespeare's personal and professional life. The dictionary examines the language employed by Shakespeare to represent women across the full range of his poetry and plays, and the implications these constructions have for gender positions in Elizabethan and Jacobean society. Women in Shakespeare is an ideal guide for all students and scholars of Shakespeare interested in gender.
VA01-140 Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies, The., 6-Vols/Set.
  Marvin, Roberta Montemorra/ 9780754629078
 
  New perspectives on opera scholarship have emerged in recent years and have changed the course of the genre's study in significant ways. This series brings together selected articles and essays which reflect the new scholarship: the papers address sources, works, audiences, performers, creators, culture, and theory and deal with operatic works as historical and contemporary entities with aesthetic, theoretical, and ideological complexities. The articles display a rich variety of approaches and style and come from a range of disciplines, both musical and non-musical. Each volume in the series is edited by a recognized authority in the area, and features a detailed introduction which surveys the current state of the field, gives an overview of important issues and new discoveries, and explains the significance of the texts in the collection. There is also a select bibliography of the sources cited in each introduction. Because of the nature of the scholarship and the operatic repertory for different times and places, volumes are organized in differing ways designed to serve readers' needs and to embrace various topics and approaches as appropriate to the repertory of diverse eras. This authoritative series of six volumes offers a selection of the most important and influential English-language scholarship in opera studies and is a valuable resource for scholars new to the area as well as for experienced scholars who may have overlooked an important essay published in a journal with limited circulation.
VA01-139 Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, The., 2-Vols/Set.
  Kurian, George Thomas/ 9780810869875
 
  The written word is one of the defining elements of Christian experience. As vigorous in the 1st century as it is in the 21st, Christian literature has had a significant function in history, and teachers and students need to be reminded of this powerful literary legacy. Covering 2,000 years, The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature is the first encyclopedia devoted to Christian writers and books. In addition to an overview of the Christian literature, this two-volume set also includes 40 essays on the principal genres of Christian literature and more than 400 bio-bibliographical essays describing the principal writers and their works. These essays examine the evolution of Christian thought as reflected in the literature of every age. The companion volume also features bibliographies, an index, a timeline of Christian Literature, and a list of the greatest Christian authors. The encyclopedia will appeal not only to scholars and Christian evangelicals, but students and teachers in seminaries and theological schools, as well as to the growing body of Christian readers and bibliophiles.
VA01-135 Shakespeare and Language of Food: A Dictionary.
  Fitzpatrick, Joan/ 9781441179982
 
 
VA01-134 Shakespeare's Medical Language: A Dictionary.
  Iyengar, Sujata/ 9780826491336
 
 
 

 

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