Book review
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Chloe Porter. Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion
Chloe Porter. Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama: Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. viii, 230p., ill. ISBN 9780719084973. US $110.00 (hardcover). In her intriguing…
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Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines. Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript
Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines. Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. ix, 251 p., ill. ISBN…
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Irena R. Makaryk and Virlana Tkacz, eds. Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation
Irena R. Makaryk and Virlana Tkacz, eds. Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2015 [reprint]. xxi, 666 p., ill. ISBN 9781442629004. CAD $49.95…
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Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016. xvi, 344 p., 22 halftones. ISBN 9780674417076. USA $29.95…
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Rachel Willie. Staging the Revolution: Drama, Reinvention and History, 1647-72
Rachel Willie. Staging the Revolution: Drama, Reinvention and History, 1647-72. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015. xi, 242 p., 4 b/w ill. ISBN 9780719087639. UK £70.00 (hardcover). Rachel Willie’s splendid study…
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Peggy Thompson, ed. Beyond Sense and Sensibility: Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth
Peggy Thompson, ed. Beyond Sense and Sensibility: Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2015. Xv, 213 p., ill. ISBN 9781611486407. U.S.…
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Matthew Adams. Teaching Classics in English Schools, 1500-1840
Matthew Adams. Teaching Classics in English Schools, 1500-1840. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 210 p. ISBN 9781443881142. £47.99 / $81.95 (hardcover). The focus of this short, very readable…
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Susanna Fein and Michael Johnston, eds. Robert Thornton and his Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts
Susanna Fein and Michael Johnston, eds. Robert Thornton and his Books: Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts. Rochester, NY & Cambridge, UK: York Medieval Press, 2014. xii, 316p.,…