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Literary Studies & Linguistics

Allegory, Space and the Material World in the Writings of Edmund Spenser
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
An examination of the way in which the material world is depicted in The Faerie Queene.

Arthurian Bibliography I
Series: Arthurian Studies

Arthurian Bibliography II
Series: Arthurian Studies

Arthurian Literature XXII
Series: Arthurian Literature
Selection of the latest research in Arthurian studies.

A Bibliography of Printed Items Relating to the City of Lincoln
Series: Publications of the Lincoln Record Society
Supplementary to material contained in Corns'Bibliotheca Lincolniensis (1904).

A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500-2000)
Annotated bibliography of the Arthurian legend in modern English-language fiction, not only in literary texts, but in television, music, and art.

Bibliotheca Cinegetica Hispanica: Suplemento 1
Series: Research Bibliographies and Checklists: new series
Bibliographical survey of medieval and Golden Age hunting literature of the Iberian Peninsula.

Calderón: Estructura y Ejemplaridad
Series: Monografías A
Seminal studies of Spain's greatest dramatist on his fourth centenary.

Catalogue of English Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library
Pioneer catalogue for one of the most important collections of English legal manuscripts.

Catalogue of the Francis Trigge Chained Library

Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge

Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge
Full bibliographical information on Pepys's outstanding ballad collection.

Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge
Second volume in two-volume catalogue of Pepys's outstanding collection of 17c ballads.

Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge III
Catalogue of all the portraits in Pepys's library including Pepys's `Collection of Heads'.

Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge
Series: Catalogue of Pepys Library Supplementary Series
Continuing work on Pepys's library, and recent discoveries, necessitate expansion of the content and entries in the original volumes. This is the first in the Supplementary Series.

Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge V
Comprehensive itemisation and technical description of the medieval manuscripts in Pepys's Library.

Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge V

Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge VI

Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge VII
Pepys catalogue is of great interest for the information it provides on classification and indexing in the late 17c.

Catalogue des Manuscrits Francais de la Bibliotheque Parker (Parker Library) Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Series: Parker Library Publications
Catalogue of the famous collection of French manuscripts at the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Lincoln Cathedral Chapter Library

Catalogue Sources Atlas EM Eng - out of print

Chaucerian Realism
Series: Chaucer Studies
Myles challenges the convention of the `medieval mind' and perceives new semantic sophistication in Chaucer's language.

The Chepman and Myllar Prints
Series: Scottish Text Society
Digitised facsimiles, with notes and transcription, of the earliest printed texts produced in Scotland.

Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
A reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and what it says about contemporary attitudes to the medieval.

Christine de Pizan
Series: Research Bibliographies and Checklists: new series
A comprehensive bibliography covering the most productive period to date, 1991 - 2002, of scholarship on the work of Christine de Pizan.

A Companion to Don Quixote
Series: Monografías A
An introduction to Cervantes's complex masterpiece.

A Companion to the Fairy Tale - paperback
Offers an excellent introduction to the work currently and historically being done on fairy tales by folk-lorists. MEDIEVAL REVIEW

A Companion to Golden Age Theatre
Series: Monografías A
This Companion is a readable and up-to-date guide to all aspects of the extraordinary flowering of theatre in Early-Modern Spain.

A Companion to Latin American Literature
Series: Monografías A
The evolution of Latin American literature.

A Companion to Magical Realism
Series: Monografías A
A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession.

A Companion to Mexican Studies
Series: Monografías A
A comprehensive guide to the evolution of the major creative aspects of Mexican culture from pre-Columbian times to the present.

A Companion to Pablo Neruda
Series: Monografías A
The making of a great Chilean poet.

A Companion to Spanish Surrealism
Series: Monografías A
A comprehensive introduction to Surrealism in Spain, with focus on poetry, art, drama and film.

Contemporary British Women Writers
Series: Essays and Studies
Essays illustrating the range and diversity of post-1970 British women writers.

Conversaciones literarias con novelistas contemporáneos
Series: Monografías A
Interviews, with contextual critical material, with nine celebrated contemporary Hispanic novelists.

The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Major edition revealing key ideas and events in the lives and work of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and Victorian literary circles: 5,800 letters (including 2,000 previously unpublished letters) to 330 recipients.

The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Major edition revealing key ideas and events in the lives and work of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and Victorian literary circles: 5,800 letters (including 2,000 previously unpublished letters) to 330 recipients.

The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 4

The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 5
Breakdown and attempted suicide, and co-tenancy of Kelmscott Manor with Morris, balanced by usual professional concerns.

The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 6
The sixth volume of Rossetti's correspondence covers a particularly energetic period of artistic activity and dealings with patrons, his new agent C.A. Howell, dealers and friends.

The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 7
A period in Rossetti's life characterized by breakdown, disappointment, ill health and mounting problems with creditors and patrons.

The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: set

Culture and Society in Habsburg Spain
Series: Monografías A
Essays on key aspects of cultural, religious, and intellectual life in early modern Spain.

The Cycle of Guillaume d'Orange or Garin de Monglane
Series: Research Bibliographies and Checklists: new series
Bibliography of all works, not only on the full cycle but also on Le Chanson de Guillaume and the Geste de Monglane.

Destined for Evil?
Series: Rochester Studies in Philosophy
This collection of 15 essays on various aspects of the problem of evil brings together the opinions of well known authors from various disciplines (philosophy, theology, literary criticism, political science, etc.).

Devil Theatre: Demonic Possession and Exorcism in English Renaissance Drama, 1558-1642
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
The so-called `Devil Theatre' is here set against its context of non-dramatic texts on possession and exorcism, providing many new insights.

Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
English devotional poets of 17c set in a wider European and Catholic context.

Early Modern Tragicomedy
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
Fresh explorations of the tragicomic drama, setting the familiar plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries alongside Irish and European drama.

Eça de Queiroz
Series: Monografías A
The first literary biography in English of Eça de Queiroz, the Portuguese Dickens.

Exemplary Comparison from Homer to Petrarch
A magisterial survey, across the entire European literary tradition to the early fourteenth century, of exemplary figures in literary tradition.

The French Language in the Seventeenth Century

George Gascoigne
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
First modern full-length study of the Elizabethan poet George Gascoigne.

Globalisation and its Discontents
Series: Essays and Studies
Essays discussing the concept of globalisation as present in works of art and literature.

The Grail Legend in Modern Literature
Series: Arthurian Studies
The Grail legends have in modern times been appropriated by a number of different scholarly schools of thought; their approaches are analysed here.

El Habla Pasiega: Ensayo de Dialectología Montañesa
Series: Monografías A

The Heroines of English Pastoral Romance
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
The figure of the woman as hero in pastoral romance is shown to grow in importance and complexity in this important new study.

A History of Old Norse Poetry and Poetics
Accessible guide to and description of the medieval poetic tradition in Scandinavia.

The House of Life by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Sonnet-Sequence
New and definitive edition of Rossetti's masterpiece, with full notes and apparatus.

Index Britanniae Scriptorum - out of print

The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist II
Series: Index of Middle English Prose

The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist III
Series: Index of Middle English Prose

The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist IV
Series: Index of Middle English Prose

The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist V
Series: Index of Middle English Prose

The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist VI
Series: Index of Middle English Prose

The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist VII
Series: Index of Middle English Prose

The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist IX
Series: Index of Middle English Prose
A catalogue of Middle English texts, largely relating to heraldry and the sciences of the time.

Index of Middle English Prose volumes I-X
Series: Index of Middle English Prose

John Bunyan and the Language of Conviction
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
Bunyan's works re-evaluated, and considered in their Restoration and non-conformist context.

John Donne's Professional Lives
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
New studies offer a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career, making a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings.

King James I and the Religious Culture of England
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
Examination of the influence of James I on the religious and cultural life of England.

Last of the Valerii - out of print

Léxico hispanoamericano del siglo XVI
Series: Monografías A

Literary Adaptations in Black American Cinema:
A comprehensive analysis of the ways in which the black American experience has been depicted in film adaptations of popular literature.

Literature and Science
Series: Essays and Studies
Essays exploring the complex relationship between literature and science.

Literature and the Visual Media
Series: Essays and Studies
Essays on the links between film and fiction, and their mutual influence.

Lope de Vega's `Comedias de tema religioso': Re-creations and Re-presentations
Series: Monografías A
A study of Lope's religious plays and their reflection of the theocentric world of seventeenth-century Spain.

The Making of Restoration Poetry
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
A survey of Restoration poetry, from the forms in which it was disseminated to studies of important texts.

The Metre of Old Saxon Poetry
A comprehensive study of Old Saxon metre, based on close analysis of the Heliand.

Michigan German in Frankenmuth
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
A phonological, grammatical, and lexical description of a German-American dialect, Michigan Frankenmuth.

Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain
Essays reappraising the relationship between the various languages of late medieval Britain.

Norwegian Runes and Runic Inscriptions
An accessible account of Norwegian runic inscriptions from their first appearance around AD200 until their demise around 1400.

Old English Prose of Secular Learning
Series: Annotated Bibliographies
First title in a new series of annotated bibliographies - includes prose proverbs, romances, computistical texts, Enchiridion, magico- medical literature, etc.

Old English Poetic Metre
Metrical study of Old English poetry drawing on database of almost half the surviving corpus - a uniquely extensive sample.

The Older Scots Vowels
Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series

Order and Connexion: Munby - out of print

Catalogue of the Pepys Library set at Magdalene College, Cambridge

Plant Names of Medieval England
` Compiled with great care, cautious in its claims and rich with suggestions for further scholarship; will be of great value to lexicographers and all students of medieval medicine and botany.' PAULINE THOMPSON, NOTES AND QUERIES

A Pleasing Sinne
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
Studies of the representation and understanding of drink and conviviality in diverse social contexts.

The Poetry of Salvador Espriu
Series: Monografías A
The first book-length study in English of the poetry of Salvador Espriu [1913-85].

The Polish Formalist School and Russian Formalism
Series: Rochester Studies in Central Europe
A comparison of two schools of literary criticism, showing how the Polish Formalist School modified and transcended the original ideas of Russian Formalism.

The Printed Maps of Lincolnshire, 1576-1900: A Carto-Bibliography with an Appendix on Road-Books 1675-1900
Series: Publications of the Lincoln Record Society
Complete record of all the maps of Lincolnshire from 1576 to 1900, with full description and bibliographical notes for each entry.

Reading for the Stage: Calderón and his Contemporaries
Series: Monografías A
Approaches to the playtext applied to the works of Calderon and his contemporaries.

Robert Southey and Romantic Apostasy
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
A fresh and sympathetic interpretation of Robert Southey's changing social and political ideas, shedding new light on contemporary thought.

Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry
First examination of the use made by Seamus Heaney of medieval poetry in his translations and adaptations, including the acclaimed Beowulf.

Self-Interpretation in The Faerie Queene
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
A new reading of the allegorical nature of The Faerie Queene, offering radical new insights into its narrative and form.

Shakespeare and Machiavelli
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
A detailed comparison of Machiavelli with Shakespeare, grounded in their common use of rhetoric.

Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition
Series: Essays and Studies
Slavery as depicted in literature and culture is examined in this wide-ranging collection.

The Song of Songs in English Renaissance Literature: Kisses of Their Mouths
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
Treatment of and reference to the Song of Songs by a variety of authors including Spenser and Milton.

Spanish American Poetry after 1950
Series: Monografías A
The principal developments in Spanish American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century.

The Spanish Ballad in the Golden Age
Series: Monografías A
A guide to the interpretation of the Golden-Age ballad.

Speaking in our Tongues - out of print

Spenser's Legal Language
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
Highlights Spenser's use of legal thought and language, resulting in new insights into his work.

Staging Islam in England: Drama and Culture, 1640-1685
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
Exploration of the ways in which Islam manifested itself in the writings of the seventeenth century.

Studies in Medievalism XI
Series: Studies in Medievalism
Studies in Medievalism is the only journal entirely devoted to modern re-creations of the middle ages: a field of central importance not only to scholarship but to the whole contemporary cultural world.

Studies in Medievalism XII
Series: Studies in Medievalism
Essays on the continuing power and applicability of medieval images, with particular reference to recent films.

Studies in Medievalism XIII
Series: Studies in Medievalism
Studies of texts from the late middle ages to the contemporary moment, together they indicate, broadly, directions both in postmodern studies and studies in medievalism.

Studies in Medievalism XIV
Series: Studies in Medievalism
Articles centred on the use made by European nations of medieval texts and other artefacts to define their history and origins.

Studies in Medievalism XV
Series: Studies in Medievalism
Taking as its central theme the idea of memory in medievalism, the contributors address a variety of texts and topics.

Studies in Medievalism XVII
Series: Studies in Medievalism

T.H. White's Troubled Heart
An analysis of women in The Once and Future King.

Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth Century England, Volume One
First systematic study of the teaching aid which constituted the set-texts of Latin instruction in 13c England.

Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth Century England, Volume Two

Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth Century England, Volume Three

Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Century England
First systematic study of the teaching aid which constituted the set-texts of Latin instruction in 13c England.

The Theology of John Donne - paperback
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
John Donne discussed as an original religious thinker, drawing on his extant sermons for evidence of his personal theology.

Towards a Poetics of Music and the Arts

The Town Library of Ipswich Provided for the Use of the Town Preachers in 1599

The Two Versions of Malory's Morte Darthur
Series: Arthurian Studies
Analysis of the relationship between the Winchester manuscript and Caxton's edition. Detailed linguistic analysis of the two versions of the Morte Darthur, charting important changes in the development of the English language.

The Uncertain World of 'Samson Agonistes'
Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature
Ambiguity, present in all aspects of the poem, is seen as central to Milton's authorial intentions.

Verbs of Motion in Medieval English
A linguistic study of the medieval uses of the verbs of motion.

Victorian Women Poets
Series: Essays and Studies
Specially commissioned essays offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus rediscovered writers.

The Visionary Life of Madre Ana de San Agustín
Series: Textos B
Madre Ana's account of her life gives insight into the nature of female monasticism at the turn of the seventeenth century.

Voices in the Past
A pioneering exploration of the scope for linking archaeology and the critical reading of literature.

William Morris's Utopia of Strangers
Series: English Association Studies
William Morris's conception of hospitality as a form of political tolerance is surveyed within the context of Victorian medievalism.

Words For Robert Burchfield's 65th Birthday

The Works of Thomas Traherne [complete set]
Series: Works of Thomas Traherne

The Works of Thomas Traherne I
Series: Works of Thomas Traherne
First volume in what will be the definitive edition of the complete works of Thomas Traherne, containing previously unpublished material.

The Works of Thomas Traherne II
Series: Works of Thomas Traherne
Traherne's voice can be heard as never before. THE TABLET

The Works of Thomas Traherne III
Series: Works of Thomas Traherne
Traherne's voice can be heard as never before. THE TABLET

Writing Home
Series: English Association Studies
The idea of place, and of being displaced, is a powerful leit-motif in Northern Irish poetry. It is here explored in depth, from the 1960s to the present day.