Book review
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Erik Kwakkel, ed. Manuscripts of the Latin Classics 800-1200
Erik Kwakkel, ed. Manuscripts of the Latin Classics 800-1200. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2015. 224p., ill. ISBN 9789087282264. €39.50 (paperback). This paperback presents…
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W. R. Albury. Castiglione’s Allegory: Veiled Policy in The Book of the Courtier (1528)
W. R. Albury. Castiglione’s Allegory: Veiled Policy in The Book of the Courtier (1528). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014. 275p., ill. ISBN 9781472432636. £55 (hardback). Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier has been described…
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Anne Hermanson. The Horror Plays of the English Restoration
Anne Hermanson. The Horror Plays of the English Restoration. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. vii, 186p., ill. ISBN 9781472415523. US $109.95 (hardback). Anne Hermanson’s Horror Plays of the English Restoration begins…
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Antje Willing, ed. Die Bibliothek des Klosters St. Katharina zu Nürnberg
Antje Willing, ed. Die Bibliothek des Klosters St. Katharina zu Nürnberg. Synoptische Darstellung der Bücherverzeichnisse. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2012. 2 vol., 1517p. (vol. 1: cxiv, 844p.; vol. 2: vi, 674p.).…
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Eric Parisot. Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition
Eric Parisot. Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition. Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. x, 184p., ill. ISBN 09781409434733. GBP £95.00 (hardcover). The ambition of Eric Parisot’s…
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David Nicol. Middleton and Rowley: Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse
David Nicol. Middleton and Rowley: Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. xii, 220p. ISBN 9781442643703. US $50.00 (hardback). In this welcome study of…
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Caroline Davis and David Johnson, eds. The Book in Africa: Critical Debates
Caroline Davis and David Johnson, eds. The Book in Africa: Critical Debates. New Directions in Book History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 280p. ISBN 9781137401618. £55.00 (hardback). The Book in Africa: Critical…
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Hannah Sullivan. The Work of Revision
Hannah Sullivan. The Work of Revision. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2013. 349p., ill. ISBN 9780674073128. £25.95 / US $35.00 (hardback). This is a work of intelligence and…