Book review
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Rachel Potter. Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment 1900-1940
Rachel Potter. Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment 1900-1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 231p. ISBN 9780199680986. £55.00 (hardback). Why was Ulysses deemed obscene? Why was The Rainbow banned? What…
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Lindsay O’Neill. The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World / Diana G. Barnes. Epistolary Community in Print, 1580-1664
Lindsay O’Neill. The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. viii, 264p. ill. ISBN 9780812246483. US $47.50 (hardback). Diana G. Barnes. Epistolary…
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Mikhail Panteleevich Lepekhin. Zdobnov and His History of Russian Bibliography
Mikhail Panteleevich Lepekhin. Zdobnov and His History of Russian Bibliography. Edited and translated by William E. Butler. Idyllwild, CA: Charles Schlacks, 2014. viii, 198p. ISBN 1884445837. US $20.00 (paperback). Not…
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Manuel José Pedraza García, ed. Titivillus: International Journal of Rare Books
Manuel José Pedraza García, ed. Titivillus: International Journal of Rare Books, vol. I (2015). Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2015. 470p., ill. ISSN 23870915. €30.00 (paperback). Titivillus is a…
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Philip A. Stadter, ed. Plutarch and His Roman Readers
Philip A. Stadter, ed. Plutarch and His Roman Readers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. x, 394p. ISBN 9780198718338. UK £80.00 / US $111.00 (hardback). Plutarch and His Roman Readers is…
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Margot Gayle Backus, Scandal Work: James Joyce, the New Journalism, and the Home Rule Newspaper Wars
Margot Gayle Backus. Scandal Work: James Joyce, the New Journalism, and the Home Rule Newspaper Wars. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. xviii, 310p. ISBN: 9780268022372. US $37.00…
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A. Garrido Ardila, ed. A History of the Spanish Novel
A. Garrido Ardila, ed. A History of the Spanish Novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xii, 404p. ISBN 9780199641925. £65.00 (hardcover). This multi-authored volume, edited by J. A. Garrido Ardila,…
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Christopher N. Warren, Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680
Christopher N. Warren. Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. viii, 286p., ill. ISBN 9780198719342. US $99.00 (hardcover). As Christopher Warren amply demonstrates in his…