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Literary Criticism

Shakespearean Botanical

Willes Margaret

ISBN: HB: 9781851244379, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2015
208 pp., 18.4x11.8 cm, 60 colour illus.

When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", he is highlighting the late sixteenth-century belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from the Americas, was an aphrodisiac. In "Romeo and Jul...

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Songbook How Lyrics Became Poetry in Medieval Europe

Galvez Marisa

ISBN: PB: 9780226270050, ISBN: HB: 9780226280516, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones, 7 colour illus.

Today we usually think of a book of poems as composed by a poet, rather than assembled or adapted by a network of poets and readers. But the earliest European vernacular poetries challenge these assumptions. Medieval songbooks remind us how lyric poe...

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Scholars, Poets and Radicals Discovering Forgotten Lives in the Blackwell Collections

Ricketts Rita

ISBN: HB: 9781851244256, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 48 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a tailor's son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a hamm...

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Gender Studies

Sexuality of History Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830

Lanser Susan S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226187730, ISBN: HB: 9780226187563, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch cou...

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Shrapnel Minima Writings from Humanities Underground

Chakravarty Prasanta

ISBN: PB: 9780857421876, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection of essays, fiction, poetry and discussions, derived from the cult Internet magazine "HumanitiesUnderground", provides entry into some of the most burning issues in the humanities in contemporary South Asia. The anthology brings toget...

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Symbolist Movement in Literature

Symons Arthur

ISBN: PB: 9781847771254, Carcanet, June 2014
336 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm

First published in 1899, "The Symbolist Movement in Literature" was a highly influential work of criticism, and served to introduce the French Symbolists to an Anglophone readership. Symons' interest in writers such as Paul Verlaine and Stephane Mall...

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Women Studies

Story Larger than My Own Women Writers Look Back on Their Lives and Careers

Burroway Janet

ISBN: PB: 9780226014104, ISBN: HB: 9780226014074, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the "Saturday Evening Post".Lines on a Half-Painted House" made it into the magazine – but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband's employer, verification that the poem was her original work....

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Poetry

Storm Still

Handke Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780857425584, Seagull Books, December 2013
112 pp., 19.5x14 cm

Peter Handke, a giant of Austrian literature, has produced decades of fiction, poetry, and drama informed by some of the most tumultuous events in modern history. But even as these events shaped his work, the presence of his mother – a woman whose li...

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The Complete Greek Tragedies

Sophocles I Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

Griffith Mark, Most Glenn W., Grene David, Lattimore Richmond

ISBN: PB: 9780226311517, ISBN: HB: 9780226311500, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
256 pp., 22.8x14 cm

"Sophocles I" contains the plays "Antigone",‌ translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; "Oedipus the King",‌ translated by David Grene; and "Oedipus at Colonus",‌ translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a mo...

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The Complete Greek Tragedies

Sophocles II Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers

Griffith Mark, Most Glenn W., Grene David, Lattimore Richmond

ISBN: PB: 9780226311555, ISBN: HB: 9780226311548, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
336 pp., 22.8x14 cm

"Sophocles II" contains the plays "Ajax", translated by John Moore; "The Women of Trachis", translated by Michael Jameson; "Electra", translated by David Grene; "Philoctetes", translated by David Grene; and "The Trackers", translated by Mark Griffith...

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