Notes and Queries articles from September 1998

Notes and Queries archives from September 1998

F.J. Furnivall's letter to the Royal Library, Copenhagen, asking that the Thorkelin transcripts of 'Beowulf' be sent to London for the use of Julius Zupitza. (editor G.J. Thorkelin; scholars; manuscript of Old English poem)
September 1, 1998... In Beowulf Autotypes of the Unique Cotton MS. Vitellius A xv in the British Museum, with a Transliteration and Notes, EETS, o.s. 77 (London, 1882), Julius Zupitza transliterates the text of the poem on pages facing the photographed folios.(1)...

Dialect and literary dialect in 'The Battle of Maldon.' (1981 book on Middle English poem edited by D.B. Scragg)
September 1, 1998... D. G. Scragg in his edition of The Battle of Maldon concludes that, though the dialect colouring of the text is weak, 'the few eastern spellings and Danish words that occur make eastern composition highly likely'.(1) His succinct discussion of...

Aelfric believed on God. (etymology of the existing modern English phrase 'believe in')
September 1, 1998... The Oxford english dictionary tells us that the verb phrase believe in appears first in The Trinity Homilies. The preposition used in the phrase can be either on or in: Trinity College Homilies 23 Ich bileue on the holie gost and ibid. 19 To...

Infanticide in an eleventh-century Old English homily.
September 1, 1998... The late eleventh-century Wulfstanian homily in Oxford, Bodleian Hatton 113, folios 66-73, that begins Her is halwendlic lar and dhearflic laewedum mannum, the thaet laeden ne cunnon,(1) contains a substantial section that is practically...

Raising a stink in 'The Owl and the Nightingale': a new reading at line 115. (Middle English poem)
September 1, 1998... The two manuscripts which preserve the only surviving texts of The Owl and the Nightingale (British Library, Cotton Caligula A. ix, hereafter C),(1) and Oxford, Jesus College MS 29, part 2, hereafter J) are closely related. They share seven...

Further biographical notes on Robert Mannyng of Brunne. (response to Matthew Sullivan, Notes and Queries, p. 302, 1994)
September 1, 1998... Matthew Sullivan in his article in Notes and Queries (September 1994)(1) has claimed incorrectly, that references to Robert Mannyng of Brunne may be found in a number of public records. A closer examination of these records would indicate that...

Stallingborough in Lincolnshire. (English place-names)
September 1, 1998... Stallingborough in Lincolnshire is a difficult place-name. First recorded in Domesday Book as Stalingeburg and Stalinburg, and subsequently attested in a wide range of documents from the early twelfth century onwards, the principal spelling...

Cardinal Berard, Weston beggard, and a Bromfield writ of the confessor.
September 1, 1998... In 1995 the present writer discussed an Anglo-Saxon writ of 1060-1, which describes the rights of the canons of Bromfield, near Ludlow, Shropshire.(1) The writ survives in a fourteenth-century copy in the register of Richard de Swinfield,...

A further snippet of evidence for Brunanburh = Bromborough. (English place name)
September 1, 1998... John Dodgson makes an excellent, though not watertight, case for the identification of Brunanburh (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, annal 937), site of the famous victory of the English over a Norse army, with Bromborough in Cheshire. He notes that one...

Hidden Tyndale in 'OED's' first instances from Miles Coverdale's 1537 Bible. (William Tyndale; Oxford English Dictionary; frequently quoted authors and translators)
September 1, 1998... Miles Coverdale ranks twentieth among the most frequently quoted authors in the Oxford English Dictionary, whose editors took over 5,000 illustrative quotations from his 1535 translation of the Bible.(1) Despite his greater importance as a...

A postdating for 'OED' from Edward Davies's 'Elisa Powell.' (Oxford English Dictionary)
September 1, 1998... The verb ablegate is marked with a dagger in OED, and is described as obsolete and rare. It is defined as 'to send abroad or to a distance' and the two illustrative references both date from the mid seventeenth century, from 1657 and c. 1665...

Dating Sir Thomas Wyatt's 'Iopas's Song.' (Renaissance English author's poem)
September 1, 1998... In the article in which he identified Wyatt's primary source for 'Iopas's Song' in the edition of Sacrobosco's de Sphaera by J. Faber of Etaples (Paris 1527, 1534, 1538), David Scott(1) also proposed to date it to late 1539, a suggestion that...

The identity of the curate's friend in Luke Shepherd's 'Doctour Doubble Ale.' (Renaissance English author's satire)
September 1, 1998... The question of the identity of 'swete syr Harry . . . knyghte of the Sepulchre', mentioned in Luke Shepherd's 1548 anti-Catholic satire, A pore helpe, was raised, but not answered, several years ago by M. Channing Lenthicum, in an article...

Mother Arnold: a lost witchcraft pamphlet rediscovered. (notorious witch; 1574 document referring to the execution of this sorceress)
September 1, 1998... In a compilation of late Elizabethan news published by William Barley as A World of Wonders. A Masse of Murthers. A Covie of Cosonages in 1595 is a version of a witchcraft pamphlet believed lost since 1574.(1) Its rediscovery is noteworthy...

Towards a new date and suggested authorship attribution for the Timon, MS. (manuscript play)
September 1, 1998... A lengthy study of the manuscript play Timon, MS (Dyce MS 52, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington), upon which Shakespeare's play of similar title depends, has produced several topical allusions suggesting a c. 1580 date. This would be...

'Long Meg of Westminster': a mystery solved. (popular character in Renaissance English literature)
September 1, 1998... Long Meg of Westminster, heroine of the jest-biography that bears her name, was one of the best-loved figures in the popular literature of Renaissance England. The Life of Long Meg of Westminster, entered in the Stationers' Register in 1590,...

Influence alone? More on the authorship of 'Titus Andronicus.' (English drama)
September 1, 1998... New information (unfortunately including information about previous scholarship) casts doubt upon some of the conclusions reached by contemporary scholars and editors regarding questions of both authorship and influence in the case of Titus...

Indefinite articles in 'Titus Andronicus,' Peele, and Shakespeare. (drama; playwrights George Peele and William Shakespeare)
September 1, 1998... The 'English Drama' section of the Chadwyck-Healey database 'Literature Online' is a rich resource for investigators of problems of attribution connected with English Renaissance plays. It includes texts of almost all extant comedies,...

Lavinia as music. (character in play 'Titus Andronicus')
September 1, 1998... The connection between certain Shakespearian texts and North's translation of Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives of the Ancient Grecians and Romans' (1579) is well known. Generally, however, Titus Andronicus is perceived as resting eclectically on...

Shakespeare's early 'fair.' (term in dramatist William Shakespeare's play 'Love's Labour's Lost')
September 1, 1998... In Love's Labour's Lost IV.i.9-23(1) pentameter couplets signal the beginning of the Princess's accelerating cadenza on various meaning of the adjective 'fair'. She asks her forester where she should stand to shoot deer: For. Hereby, upon...

'O Happy Dagger': the autonomy of Shakespeare's Juliet. (character in dramatist William Shakespeare's play 'Romeo and Juliet')
September 1, 1998... The self-reliance of Cleopatra, when it comes to the practicalities of ending her life, is well known and unchallenged. Following Plutarch's account, Shakespeare shows her sending for the asps whose sensuous biting enables her to outwit her...

Shakespeare's Ravenspur(gh). (dramatist William Shakespeare's citation of a place-name in three of his history plays)
September 1, 1998... SHAKESPEARE mentions Ravenspur(gh) in three of his history plays:(1) Richard II (II.i.298, etc.),(2) 1 Henry IV (I.iii.245, etc.),(3) and 3 Henry VI, IV.viii.8.(4) The notes in recent standard editions usually describe Ravenspur as 'a port on...

The tenor of Marlowe in 'Henry V.' (dramatist Christopher Marlowe; play by dramatist William Shakespeare)
September 1, 1998... Enjoyment of cruelty? In his Oxford Shakespeare edition of Henry V, Gary Taylor notes the omission of the following lines from the First Quarto of 1600: 'This cut is [again] suspicious, in that it makes Henry's savage speech wholly...

Antony, Brutus, and 'Christ's Tears over Jerusalem.' (characters in dramatist William Shakespeare's play 'Julius Caesar;' play by dramatist Thomas Nashe)
September 1, 1998... Shakespeare, who drew upon other works of Nashe in the composition of Julius Caesar, nor surprisingly used Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem, too, habituated as he was to reusing malleable source material. From The Terrors of the Night (1594), 'a...

'The Adventures of Master F.J.' and 'Twelfth Night.' (fictional story by English author George Gascoigne; play by dramatist William Shakespeare)
September 1, 1998... Set in the house of a great lord, 'The Adventures of Master F.J' is a work in prose by George Gascoigne which tells of an affair between a young courtier and the lord's married stepdaughter, 'Mistresse Elinor'.(1) A work of fiction, it so...

Race in 'Othello': the 'History and Description of Africa' and the Black Legend. (dramatist William Shakespeare's play; 17th century book by author John Pory; anti-Spanish propaganda manifestos)
September 1, 1998... Only four years before the (probable) first performance of Othello (1604), John Pory published his translation of and additions to Leo Africanus's A Geographical Description of Africa on the recommendation of Richard Hakluyt, a work which...

Evidence of revision in 'Othello.' (drama by playwright William Shakespeare)
September 1, 1998... Othello exists in two authoritative versions: the first quarto (Q) published in 1622 and the Folio (F) of 1623. Current scholarly opinion on the relationship between Q and F is summarized thus in the Oxford Textual Companion:(1) [Q]...

Shakespeare and the authorized version. (author William Shakespeare)
September 1, 1998... Time and again when dealing with Shakespeare's biblical references, scholars cite the Authorized King James Bible of 1611 rather than an English Bible available to Shakespeare. Often the readings of the Authorized Version and the Bibles of...

'Antony and Cleopatra,' I.iii.102-5 and Spenser's 'Ruines of Rome.' (drama by playwright William Shakespeare; poet Edmund Spenser)
September 1, 1998... Parting from Cleopatra at the end of Act I scene iii of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Antony tries to comfort her with a paradox: Our separation so abides and flies That thou residing here, goes yet with me; And I hence fleeting, here...

'The Wounds of Civil War' and 'Antony and Cleopatra': an unnoticed parallel. (play by dramatist Thomas Lodge; play by dramatist William Shakespeare)
September 1, 1998... A verbal parallel in Richard III suggests that Shakespeare knew Thomas Lodge's The Wounds of Civil War.(1) A passage in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra also demonstrates familiarity with Lodge's play. In The Wounds of Civil War (c. 1588,...

Naming in 'Coriolanus.' (play by dramatist William Shakespeare)
September 1, 1998... In V.ii a Roman elder arrives at the entrance to the Volscian camp as his city's ambassador to its avenging son. He presents his calling-card to the two enemy sentries: 'My name hath touch'd your ears: it is Menenius' (11; Arden edition by...

'Coriolanus,' I.iv: beating Martius' soldiers back to their trenches. (character in play by dramatist William Shakespeare)
September 1, 1998... Amongst the many staging difficulties of Coriolanus,(1) few have bemused commentators more than the Folio stage direction of I.iv, where 'the army of the Volsces' (514) emerges from Corioles to engage their Roman besiegers, and after a fight,...

Was 'Timon of Athens' performed before 1604? (play believed to be a collaboration between dramatists William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton)
September 1, 1998... Marston's satire of 1600, Jack Drum's Entertainment, contains one direct and two indirect references to Timon of Athens. If one believes his Prologue's promise not to make the mistake of giving his audience anything archaic - [He] vowes not...

Shakespeare's Horatian poet. (dramatist William Shakespeare)
September 1, 1998... Timon of Athens is one of the relatively few plays in the Shakespearian canon to contain an unequivocal reference to the poetry of Horace. Anachronistically enough, Timon himself actually quotes from one of the Epistles in the second scene of...

Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 69.' (poem by dramatist William Shakespeare)
September 1, 1998... The following lines occur in this form in the 1609 Quarto of Shakespeare's Sonnet 69: Then churls their thoughts (although their eies were kind) To try faire flower ad the rancke smell of weeds, (lines 11-12) These lines have caused...

Nashe, Moth, and the date of 'Love's Labour's Lost.' (English author Thomas Nashe; character in play by dramatist William Shakespeare)
September 1, 1998... It is no longer fashionable to think of Love's Labour's Lost as a drama a clef.(1) But when it was, Richard David provided a thorough analysis of the topical referents of the play. The king and his book-mates have real namesakes in Navarre and...

Morphew, leprosy, and the date of Marston's 'Antonio and Mellida.' (terms contained in play by English dramatist John Marston)
September 1, 1998... In our edition of The Selected Plays of John Marston(1) we proposed a solution to a notorious crux in Act IV, scene i of Antonio and Mellida. The surviving quarto prints the final lines (lines 24-8) of a long agitated speech from Antonio in a...

John Cooke: a playwright connected to the Whitefriars. (17th-century dramatist; playhouse)
September 1, 1998... In his magisterial work on investments in the Whitefriars playhouse between 1607 and 1614, William Ingram pauses at one point to admit ignorance. On October 16, 1607, a haberdasher, William Cooke, lent twenty pounds to several shareholders in...

Tamburlaine in Ludlow. (character in dramatist Christopher Marlowe's play of the same name)
September 1, 1998... Thomas Cartelli is informative on the popular, class-interested, nature of what he terms the 'Tamburlaine Phenomenon' in Elizabethan and Jacobean England.(1) His analysis goes beyond the reception study of Richard Levin which collected...

'Take heed, there's giants keep 'em': 'The Changeling' III.iii.178 and its context. (play by Thomas Middleton)
September 1, 1998... In Act III, scene iii of Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling, Isabella, locked up in the asylum of her jealous husband, Alibius, and guarded by his 'man' Lollio, receives sexual attention first from Lollio, then Franciscus (disguised as a...

Middleton's 'Women Beware Women': rape, seduction - or power, simply? (drama by English playwright Thomas Middleton)(response to article by Murry Biggs in ccxlii, 1997 issue)
September 1, 1998... In a recent article on the 'central scene of' Women Beware Women Murray Biggs is surely wrong to conclude that the Duke's actions in II.ii do not constitute rape.' In maintaining that the Duke seduces rather than forces Bianca, Biggs contorts...

'Twice a day on the banke side'?: a contemporary report on Middleton's 'A Game at Chesse.' (play by dramatist Thomas Middleton)
September 1, 1998... Interest in Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chesse has been sharpened recently by discoveries of contemporary reporting on the play, and by the modern critical perception that this play was the most talked-about public event in London, and indeed...

Thomas Hobbes in Ben Jonson's 'The King's Entertainment at Welbeck.' (philosopher Thomas Hobbes; playwright)
September 1, 1998... During his journey north in 1633, Charles I stopped at Welbeck Abbey, a principal residence of the Marquis of Newcastle. Newcastle employed Ben Jonson to write the entertainment for the evening. This work is known both as Love's Welcome at...

Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches, 1100-1300.
September 1, 1998... NEIL CARTLIDGE, Pp. xii + 250. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997. [pounds]39.50 (ISBN 0-85991-512-3). This study developed from a doctoral thesis supervised by Peter Dronke, and shares some of the virtues, as well as some of the preoccupations,...

Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages.
September 1, 1998... ANDRE VAUCHEZ, trans. JEAN BIRRELL, Pp. xxvii + 645. Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [pounds]65.00 (ISBN 0-521-44559-0). Vauchez's magisterial study, first published in 1981 and since reissued in two further...

Le Cordonnier de Jerusalem: La veritable histoire du Juif errant.
September 1, 1998... GAEL MILIN, Pp. 181 (Collection 'Histoire'). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 1997. Paperbound FF98.00 (ISBN 2-86847-238-9). Le Cordonnier de Jerusalem is an interesting book in which Gael Milin examines the legend of the wandering...

Medieval Welsh Literature.
September 1, 1998... ANDREW BREEZE, Medieval Welsh Literature. Pp. 174. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997. [pounds]27.50 (ISBN 1-85182-229-1). According to the dust jacket, this book is a general history for the general reader. In his preface, the author explains...

Edmund Spenser.
September 1, 1998... COLIN BURROW, Edmund Spenser. Pp. x + 118 (Writers and their Work). Plymouth: Northcote House, in association with The British Council, 1996. Paperbound [pounds]7.99 (ISBN 07463-0750-0). Colin Burrow has followed up his distinguished...

Alternative Shakespeares, vol. 2.
September 1, 1998... TERENCE HAWKES, Alternative Shakespeares, vol. 2. Pp. xiii + 294 (New Accents). London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Paperbound [pounds]9.99 (ISBN 0-415-13486-2). In 1985 Alternative Shakespeares set out to transform Shakespeare studies by...

Big-time Shakespeare.
September 1, 1998... MICHAEL D. BRISTOL, Pp. xvi + 256. London and New York: Routledge, 1996. Hardbound [pounds]45.00 (ISBN 0-415-06016-8); paperbound [pounds]13.99 (0-415-06017-6). In 1985 Alternative Shakespeares set out to transform Shakespeare studies by...

Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time.
September 1, 1998... JEAN-PIERRE MAQUERLOT and MICHELE WILLEMS (eds), Pp. ix + 262. Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [pounds]35.00 (ISBN 0-521-47500-7). Travel and its relation to drama in Elizabethan England is an old but...

Complete Shorter Poems, 2d ed.
September 1, 1998... JOHN MILTON, 2nd edn, ed. J. CAREY. Pp. xxiv + 523 (Longman Annotated English Poets). London and New York: Longman, 1997. Hardbound [pounds]55.00 (ISBN 0-582-01984-2); paperbound [pounds]20.99 (ISBN 0-582-01985-0). In the nineteenth century,...

Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England.
September 1, 1998... PHILIP AYRES, Pp. xix + 245 + 30 plates. Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [pounds]35.00 (ISBN 0-521-58490-6). The dust jacket of this book makes the proud claim that it is 'the first to look at the...

Miscellanies by Henry Fielding, Esq., vol 3.
September 1, 1998... HENRY FIELDING, ed. BERTRAND A. GOLDGAR and HUGH AMORY. Pp. xliv + 370 (The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. [pounds]60.00 (ISBN 0-19-818275-9). The latest volume in the excellent Wesleyan...

University Life in Eighteenth-Century Oxford.
September 1, 1998... GRAHAM MIDGLEY, Pp. x + 182. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996. [pounds]16.95 (ISBN 0-300-06813-1). In 1759, Midgley reveals, only 182 freshmen were admitted to Oxford. Although the student body was so depleted, it had never...

Familiar Violence: Gender and Social Upheaval in the Novels of Frances Barney.
September 1, 1998... BARBARA ZONITCH, Pp. 167. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1997. [pounds]26.50 (ISBN 087413-618-0). We should perhaps read Fanny Burney more than we do. Even among professors and graduate students...

The English Literatures of America: 1500-1800.
September 1, 1998... MYRA JEHLEN and MICHAEL WARNER (eds), Pp. xxiii + 1118. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. Paperbound [pounds]16.99 (ISBN 0-415-90873-6). Anthologies are currently much in vogue; publishers clearly regard them as reliable sources of...

Strange Fits of Passion: Epistemologies of Emotion, Hume to Austen.
September 1, 1998... ADELA PINCH, Pp. viii + 240. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press (distrib. outside N. America by Cambridge University Press), 1996. [pounds]30.00. (ISBN 0-8047-2549-7). Adela Pinch's Strange Fits of Passion is an ambitious book...

Obstinate Heart: Jane Austen: A Biography.
September 1, 1998... VALERIE GROSVENOR MYER, Pp. viii + 248. London: Michael O'Mara, 1997. [pounds]18.99 (ISBN 1-85479-213-X). On 1 April 1816 Jane Austen wrote to her publisher, John Murray, about the Prince Regent's presentation copy of her latest novel: You...

Jane Austen's Letters, 3d ed.
September 1, 1998... JANE AUSTEN, ed. DEIRDRE LE FAYE; Pp. xxviii + 643. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Paperbound [pounds]14.99 (ISBN 0-19-283297-2). On 1 April 1816 Jane Austen wrote to her publisher, John Murray, about the Prince Regent's...

Lives of the Great Romantics II: Keats, Coleridge and Scott by Their Contemporaries, vol. 1, Keats.
September 1, 1998... JENNIFER WALLACE (ed.), vol. 1, Keats. Pp. xxxviii + 319. Publishers Pickering & Chatto, now sporting a laurel wreath in place of the familiar dolphin and anchor, have followed up their Lives of Shelley, Byron, and Wordsworth with a further...

The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts: Facsimile Editions with Full Transcriptions and Scholarly Apparatus, vol. 22, Additional Materials in the Hand of Mary W. Shelley.
September 1, 1998... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY and MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY, MSS. Shelley Adds. c.5 and Shelley Adds. d. 6, ed. Alan M. Weinberg. Pp. xvi + 312; viii + 452. New York and London: Garland, 1997. (ISBN 0-8153157-5). Volume xxii of the Bodleian Shelley...

British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology.
September 1, 1998... PAULA R. FELDMAN (ed.), Pp. xxxvi + 879. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. [pound]41.50 (ISBN 0-8018-5430-x). Paula R. Feldman's extensive knowledge of the Romantic period and of the British women poets who...

Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism.
September 1, 1998... SUSAN J. WOLFSON, Pp. xi + 334. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press (distrib. outside N. America by Cambridge University Press), 1997. [pounds]30.00 (ISBN 0-8047-2657-4). This is not a book about the larger aspects of form or genre,...

The Critical Response to Thomas Carlyle's Major Works.
September 1, 1998... D. J. TRELA and RODGER L. TARR (eds), Pp. xiii + 205 (Critical Responses in Arts and Letters). Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press, 1997. [pounds]47.95 (ISBN 0-313-29107-1). The General Editor of the Critical Responses in Arts and...

Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters.
September 1, 1998... JUDITH JOHNSTON, Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Pp. xiv + 264. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997. [pounds]45.00 (ISBN 1-85928-379-9) Judith Johnston's critical study of the professional non-fiction writer Anna Jameson,...

Punch: The Lively Youth of a British Institution, 1841-1851.
September 1, 1998... RICHARD D. ALTICK, Pp. xxviv + 776. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997. $59.50 (ISBN 0-8142-0710-3). While many scholars have utilized Punch as a source for their research and writing, few have taken the magazine itself as a central...

The Poems of Emily Bronte.
September 1, 1998... EMILY BRONTE, ed. DEREK ROPER, with EDWARD CHITHAM. Pp. xviii + 307. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. [pounds]40.00 (ISBN 0-19-812641-8). Emily Bronte has generally not been well served by editors and publishers. Her first venture into print in...

The Brontes: Interviews and Recollections.
September 1, 1998... HAROLD OREL (ed.), Pp. xviii + 221. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997. Hardbound [pounds]40.00 (ISBN 0-333-64619-3); paperbound [pounds]14.99 (0-333-66314-4). There is a curiously old-fashioned air about this book, most obviously seen...

Pierre, or the Ambiguities. The Kraken Edition.
September 1, 1998... HERMAN MELVILLE, ed. HERSHEL PARKER, pictures by MAURICE SENDAK. Pp. xlvi + 449. London and New York: HarperCollins, 1996. [pounds]15.99 (ISBN 0-06-118009-2). 'So, now, let us add Moby Dick to our blessing, and step from that. Leviathan is...

An Anthology of Pre-Raphaelite Writings.
September 1, 1998... CAROLYN HARES-STRYKER (ed.), Pp. 391 + 17 colour plates + 42 black-and-white illustrations. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997. [pounds]19.95 (ISBN 1-85075-618-X). It seems strange to have an anthology of Pre-Raphaelite writings which...

Dracula.
September 1, 1998... BRAM STOKER, ed. NINA AUERBACK and DAVID J. SKAL. Pp. xiii + 492 (Norton Critical Editions). New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1997. Paperbound [pounds]6.95 (ISBN 0-393-97012-4). Undead since 1897, the novel Dracula and the person of the...

The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats, vol. 2, 1896-1900.
September 1, 1998... W. B. YEATS, ed. WARWICK GOULD, JOHN KELLY, and DEIRDRE TOOMEY. Pp. lxxxi + 790. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. [pounds]40.00 (ISBN 0-19-812-682-4). With the publication of this volume of the Yeats Collected Letters (following vol. I in 1986...

Lawrence and Comedy.
September 1, 1998... PAUL EGGERT and JOHN WORTHEN (eds), Pp. xiv + 216. Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [pounds]35.00 (ISBN 0-521-56275-9). MICHAEL BELL, Literature, Modernism and Myth. Pp. 260. Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh:...

Literature, Modernism and Myth.
September 1, 1998... MICHAEL BELL, Literature, Modernism and Myth. Pp. 260. Cambridge, New York, Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [pounds]35.00 (ISBN 0-521-58016-1). Taking as their starting point F. R. Leavis's well-known but hitherto largely...

Joyce's Grand Operoar: Opera in Finnegans Wake.
September 1, 1998... MATTHEW J. C. HODGART and RUTH BAUERLE, Pp. xiv + 341 Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997. Hardbound $49.95 (ISBN 0-252-02258-0); paperbound $24.95 (0-252-06557-3). Joyce's Grand Operoar is a book for specialists amongst...

Mirriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature.
September 1, 1998... Pp. xii + 1236. Springfield, Massachusetts: Mirriam-Webster, 1995 (ISBN 0-87779042-6). Both a dictionary and an encyclopedia, this volume combines information at the basic but often neglected levels of etymology, spelling, and pronunciation...