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Title Due Date Subject Type Imprint
A Companion to Ancrene Wisse
Edited by Yoko Wada
Ancrene Wisse introduced through a variety of cultural and critical approaches which establish the originality and interest of the treatise.
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Mar 2010 Medieval
Literature
P D. S. Brewer
A Companion to Gower
Edited by Siân Echard
An introduction to Gower and his work, focusing on his sources, historical context and literary tradition; special attention is paid to Confessio Amantis.
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Mar 2010 Medieval
Literature
P D. S. Brewer
A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle
Edited by Carol Dover
Arthur and the grail stories appeared in this French prose cycle together for the first time; scholars explore its social, historical, literary and manuscript contexts and account for its enduring interest.
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Mar 2010 Medieval
Literature
P D. S. Brewer
A Companion to Middle English Hagiography
Edited by Sarah Salih
The Saints' Life was one of the most popular forms of literature in medieval England. This volume offers crucial information for an understanding of the genre.
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Mar 2010 Medieval
Literature
P D. S. Brewer
A Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry
Edited by Priscilla Bawcutt and Janet Hadley Williams
A full survey and overview of the extraordinary flowering of Scottish poetry in the middle ages.
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Mar 2010 Medieval
Literature
P D. S. Brewer
A Companion to Middle English Prose
Edited by A.S.G. Edwards
Survey of and guide to all the major authors and genres in Middle English prose.
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Mar 2010 Medieval
Literature
P D. S. Brewer
A Companion to Wace
F.H.M. Le Saux
Guide to the works of the twelfth-century chronicler Wace, setting him in his historical and cultural context.
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Mar 2010 Medieval
Literature
P D. S. Brewer
A Companion to African Literatures
Edited by G.D. Killam and Ruth Rowe
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Mar 2010 African
Studies
P James Currey
A Companion to Luis Buñuel
Gwynne Edwards
Luis Buñuel was one of the great film-makers of the twentieth century. Gwynne Edwards analyses his work in the context of Buñuel's personal obsessions - sex, bourgeois values and religion.
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Mar 2010 Hispanic
Studies
P Tamesis Books
A Companion to Catalan Literature
Arthur Terry
The first and only guide in English to the influential body of Catalan literature, from the middle ages to the present day.
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Mar 2010 Hispanic
Studies
P Tamesis Books
A Companion to Cervantes's Novelas Ejemplares
Edited by Stephen Boyd
This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership.
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Mar 2010 Hispanic
Studies
P Tamesis Books
A Companion to Don Quixote
Anthony Close
An introduction to Cervantes's complex masterpiece.
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Mar 2010 Hispanic
Studies
P Tamesis Books
A Companion to Golden Age Theatre
Jonathan Thacker
This Companion is a readable and up-to-date guide to all aspects of the extraordinary flowering of theatre in Early-Modern Spain.
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Mar 2010 Hispanic
Studies
P Tamesis Books
A Companion to Latin American Film
Stephen M. Hart
A history of Latin American cinema, with detailed analysis of the twenty-five best films.
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Mar 2010 Hispanic
Studies
P Tamesis Books
A Companion to Federico García Lorca
Edited by Federico Bonaddio
Lorca, icon and polymath in all his manifestations.
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Mar 2010 Hispanic
Studies
P Tamesis Books
A Companion to Mexican Studies
Peter Standish
A comprehensive guide to the evolution of the major creative aspects of Mexican culture from pre-Columbian times to the present.
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Mar 2010 Hispanic
Studies
P Tamesis Books
A Companion to Spanish American Modernismo
Aníbal González
The first Spanish-language literary movement to originate in the New World and subsequently influence literary activity in Spain continues to be relevant to contemporary Spanish American writers.
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Mar 2010 Hispanic
Studies
P Tamesis Books
A Companion to US Latino Literatures
Edited by Carlota Caulfield and Darién J. Davis
A panorama of literature by Latinos, whether born or resident in the United States.
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Mar 2010 Hispanic
Studies
P Tamesis Books
A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction
Donald L. Shaw
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Mar 2010 Hispanic
Studies
P Tamesis Books
Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Spanish Merchants and their Overseas Networks
Xabier Lamikiz
This new study shows how merchants sought to minimise losses by forging strong bonds of interpersonal trust amongst a range of employees, partners, and clients.
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Jun 2010 Modern
History
A Royal Historical Society
Ludvig Irgens-Jensen
The Life and Music of a Norwegian Composer
Arvid O. Vollsnes
The first English language discussion of the life and music of this twentieth century Norwegian composer.
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Jun 2010 Music A Toccata Press
Syon Abbey and its Books
Reading, Writing and Religion in England, c.1400-1700
Edited by E. A. Jones and Alexandra Walsham
Essays on the turbulent history of Syon Abbey, focussing on the role played by reading and writing in constructing its identity and experience.
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Jun 2010 Medieval
History
A Boydell Press
Magna Carta and the England of King John
Edited by Janet S. Loengard
New interpretations of the effect of Magna Carta and other aspects of the reign of King John.
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Jun 2010 Medieval
History
A Boydell Press
The Present and the Past in Medieval Irish Chronicles
Nicholas Evans
A new analysis of a vital source for the history of Ireland and Scotland in the middle ages.
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Jun 2010 Medieval
History
A Boydell Press
Sunday Observance and the Sunday Letter in Anglo-Saxon England
Edited by Dorothy Haines
Translated by Dorothy Haines
Edition and translation of Anglo-Saxon text, shedding light on Sunday observance and other issues.
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Jun 2010 Medieval
Literature
A D. S. Brewer
Borders and Borderlands as Resources in the Horn of Africa
Edited by Dereje Feyissa and Markus Virgil Hoehne
Borders offer opportunities as well as restrictions, and in the Horn of Africa they are used as economic, political, identity and status resources by borderland peoples.
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Jun 2010 African
Studies
A James Currey
Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits Trilogy
Narrative Geographies
Karen Wooley Martin
The source of the narrative energy that creates such absorbing stories.
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Jun 2010 Hispanic
Studies
A Tamesis Books
Bertolt Brecht's Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches
A German Exile Drama in the Struggle against Fascism
Ann White and John J. White
First thorough treatment in English of one of Brecht's most important antifascist works.
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Jun 2010 German
Literature
A Camden
House
Publishing Culture and the "Reading Nation"
German Book History in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edited by Lynne Tatlock
Essays examining aspects of German book history -- in relation to writers, readers, and publishers -- from the 1780s to the 1930s.
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Jun 2010 German
Literature
A Camden
House
International Relations in Psychiatry
Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II
Edited by Volker Roelcke, Paul J. Weindling and Louise West
International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II addresses a crucial period in the history of psychiatry by examining the transfer of conceptual, institutional, and financial resources and the migration of psychiatrists between Britain, the United States, and Germany.
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Jun 2010 History of
Science &
Medicine
A University of
Rochester
Press
Screening War
Perspectives on German Suffering
Edited by Paul Cooke and Marc Silberman
Re-examines German cinema's representation of the Germans as victims during the Second World War and its aftermath.
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Jul 2010 English &
American
Literature
A Camden
House
Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World
Solimar Otero
A study of the interchange between Cuba and Africa of Yoruban people and culture during the nineteenth century, with special emphasis on the Aguda community.
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Jul 2010 African
Studies
A University of
Rochester
Press
Jocelin of Wells: Bishop, Builder, Courtier
Edited by Robert Dunning
The life and career of Jocelin of Wells examined, with a particular emphasis on his role in the reconstruction of the Cathedral and Bishop's Palace.
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Jul 2010 Medieval
History
A Boydell Press
Sedulius Scottus, De Rectoribus Christianis [On Christian Rulers]
An Edition and English Translation
R.W. Dyson
Edition and facing English translation of important Latin text, on how people should lead a good Christian life.
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Jul 2010 Medieval
Literature
A Boydell Press
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
Revised and Enlarged Edition
Gale R. Owen-Crocker
An encyclopaedic study of English dress from the fifth to the eleventh centuries, drawing evidence from archaeology, text and art.
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Jul 2010 Medieval
History
P Boydell Press
Studies in Medievalism XIX
Defining Neomedievalism(s)
Edited by Karl Fugelso
An engagement with the huge growth in neomedievalism forms the core of this volume, with other essays testing its conclusions.
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Jul 2010 Medieval
Literature
A D. S. Brewer
Chaucer and Religion
Edited by Helen Phillips
New essays on Chaucer's engagement with religion and the religious controversies of the fourteenth century.
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Jul 2010 Medieval
Literature
A D. S. Brewer
Lettering the Self in Medieval and Early Modern France
Katherine Kong
A history of the letter in pre-modern French culture.
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Jul 2010 French
Studies
A D. S. Brewer
Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts
Edited by Orietta Da Rold and Elaine Treharne
New essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and texts.
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Jul 2010 Medieval
Literature
A D. S. Brewer
Reimagining Shakespeare's Playhouse
Early Modern Staging Conventions in the Twentieth Century
Joe Falocco
An examination of the recreation of Renaissance staging traditions in modern performances.
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Jul 2010 English &
American
Literature
A D. S. Brewer
Anglo-Norman Studies 32
Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2009
Edited by C. P. Lewis
A series which is a model of its kind EDMUND KING, HISTORY
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Jul 2010 Medieval
History
A Boydell Press
Mapping Morality in Postwar German Women's Fiction
Christa Wolf, Ingeborg Drewitz, and Grete Weil
Michelle Mattson
Analyzes Wolf's, Drewitz's, and Weil's views of individual responsibility in history, with reference to theories of memory and feminist ethics.
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Aug 2010 German
Literature
A Camden
House
Reworking the German Past
Adaptations in Film, the Arts, and Popular Culture
Edited by Susan G. Figge and Jenifer K. Ward
Views adaptations as a way in which Germany seeks to come to terms with its past.
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Aug 2010 German
Literature
A Camden
House
What Will Become of the Children?
Claire Bergmann
Translated by Richard Bodek
Introduction by Richard Bodek
Lost novel of a "typical" German family in the waning days of the Weimar Republic.
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Aug 2010 German
Literature
P Camden
House
What Will Become of the Children?
Claire Bergmann
Translated by Richard Bodek
Introduction by Richard Bodek
Lost novel of a "typical" German family in the waning days of the Weimar Republic.
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Aug 2010 German
Literature
A Camden
House
Ludwik Hirszfeld
The Story of One Life
Edited by Marta A. Balinska and William H. Schneider
Translated by Marta A. Balinska
An annotated English translation of the autobiography of Polish microbiologist Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), with a focus on his contributions to international public health.
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Aug 2010 History of
Science &
Medicine
A University of
Rochester
Press
A Companion to Magical Realism
Edited by Stephen M. Hart and Wen-chin Ouyang
A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession.
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Mar 2010 English &
American
Literature
P Tamesis Books
A Companion to Latin American Literature
Stephen M. Hart
The evolution of Latin American literature.
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Mar 2010 Hispanic
Studies
P Tamesis Books

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