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Laura Marcus (7 March 1956–22 September 2021)

Laura Marcus (7 March 1956–22 September 2021)

The Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 1900–1950

The Cambridge Introduction to British Fiction, 1900–1950

QUEER IN SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIAN LITERATURE

This paper examines the reflection of queer sexuality in Russian literature and attempts to distinguish between Soviet and post-Soviet recurring narratives and trends.Its purpose is to give an overview of queer sexuality during Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. This paper reflects how this phenomenon was stifled during the Soviet era from the history of literature and again reappeared in post-Soviet Russia. It also explores the writers with their works who worked on this theme in the Soviet era and post-Soviet Russia.In addition,there are previously some notable works on this subject,for instance:"Out of the Blue:Russia's Hidden Gay Literature:An Anthology (1997) ed.by Kevin Moss,Introduction by Simon Karlinsky";and "Russian Gay and Lesbian Literature by Brian James Baer,which was published in The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature" (2014).

The Cold War: A World History

The Cold War: A World History

The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing ed. by Susheila Nasta and Mark U. Stein

The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing ed. by Susheila Nasta and Mark U. Stein

The Formation and Significance of Assyrian Narrative for the Soviet Historiography of Antiquity

The author of the article, using the method of backward chronology, highlights characteristic features of the narrative about Assyria from the beginning of the 21st century until the middle of the 20th century, and points out that I. M. Dyakonoff, who used to be the leading Assyriologist, gradually had delegated to his pupils almost all of the aspects of Assyrian history, retaining the history of Sumer within his major research scope. On the basis of archival documents, the author shows that the Assyrian narrative of I. M. Dyakonoff had been generally shaped even before the war, during his work on the chapters for the multi-volume “World History”. His Assyrian narrative was formed under the influence of the “Cambridge History of Antiquity” and V. V. Struve’s lectures: in the first case, this was evident in the presentation of a large amount of material; in the second case — in the desire to search for non-obvious explanations of the essence of historical processes. Moreover, I. M. Diakonoff did not share V. V. Struve’s views on the Assyrian history and attempted to present his position. The author concludes that the shift of I. M. Diakonoff’s interests from Assyrian history to mainly the history of Sumer was inevitable and was very unlikely to have been caused by the desire to supersede academician V. V. Struve in his status of the classic of Soviet scholarship. Two main factors influenced this transition: first, the features of Soviet historical scholarship, which presupposed a search for in-depth explanations almost exclusively in the socio-economic field, and secondly, the specificity of Assyrian sources, which contained scanty information about socio-economic processes.

Brian E. McKnight 馬伯良: June 10, 1938–August 19, 2021

Brian E. McKnight 馬伯良June 10, 1938–August 19, 2021 John Chaffee I write with the sad news of the passing of Brian E. McKnight, Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, whose pioneering work in Chinese legal history profoundly shaped our understanding of the complex world of Song laws, procedures and practitioners. Brian was born in Philadelphia but grew up in Syracuse and subsequently in various locales around the world following his father, an Army officer. He attended the University of Chicago, where he received his B.A. in 1960. Despite an initial interest in Geology and Geography, he turned to Chinese history for his graduate studies, still at Chicago, receiving his M.A. in 1964 and Ph.D. in 1968, mentored by the late Edward Kracke, Jr. After an initial job in Nebraska he went to the University of Hawai'i, where he taught for many years. In 1990 he moved to the University of Arizona to chair the new East Asian Studies Department, where he taught until his retirement in 2005. He is survived by his wife, Joan Sandin, five children and stepchildren, and fourteen grandchildren and step-grandchildren. I first met Brian in the early 1970s, when on a visit back to the University of Chicago he met with a group of us graduate students in Chinese history. Although I don't recall specifics from the meeting, I remember being impressed by his accomplishments—his book, Village and Bureaucracy in Sung China, had just appeared—his friendliness and his encouragement. It was also in the 1970s that Brian spent two years as a fellow at Harvard Law School's Center for East Asian Legal Studies, immersing himself in Chinese legal history, a development that would shape his subsequent scholarly career. While he continued to publish on Song local administration, his 1973 article, "Sung Justice: Death by Slicing," was his first venture into this new territory. In contrast to the focus on legal codes that dominated much of the previous academic study of Chinese legal history, Brian's scholarship centered on the workings of the Song judicial system. This included his articles on mechanisms for the scheduling of trials (1975), the prison facilities on Sramana Island (1980), urban crime and urban security (1988), the military and the law (1990), and his [End Page xvii] two pathbreaking books published in 1981. The Quality of Mercy: Amnesties and Traditional Chinese Justice, which covered the span of Chinese imperial history, addressed the role of imperial amnesties, often conferred en masse during such ceremonies as the suburban sacrifices. In a very different vein, The Washing Away of Wrongs: Forensic Medicine in Thirteenth Century China, which is a translation with a lengthy introduction of the Xiyuan jilu 洗冤集錄 by Song Ci 宋慈 (1186–1249), contains a wide-ranging treatment of autopsies in criminal investigations and is full of information relating to the underside of Song society. Individual legal cases also spurred his interest, as seen in his articles on the case of Chen Zhizhong (1989), a boat race riot (1995), and especially his book-length co-translation (together with the late James T.C. Liu) of major portions of the Qingming ji, a Southern Song compendium of legal judgments (1999). Special mention should be made of two comprehensive pieces of Brian's. "Sung Law and Legal System," written for Volume 5 Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China, provides an authoritative overview of the legal system during the Five Dynasties and Song, though it should be noted that it was written long before the publication date of 2015. But most important was his magisterial Law and Order in Sung China (1992), which over the course of five hundred pages covers the institutions, procedures and ideological foundations of Song law, and how they functioned in the context of Song political, social and economic conditions. To quote one of his reviewers, "… this book will serve as a fitting template for future law-and-order studies of other Chinese dynasties for generations to come." Over the years I frequently caught up with Brian at AAS meetings and research conferences; I remember one occasion when he described his attempts to recreate food recipes that...

Fálétí’s Philosophical Sensibility

Fálétí’s Philosophical Sensibility

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Previous articleNext article FreeCumulative Table of ContentsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreReassessing Anne Clifford’s Books: The Discovery of a New Manuscript Inventory ByJessica Malay1On the Full- and Half-Sheet Inserts of Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica (1543 and 1555) ByJacob Murel43The Darkness Visible Papers ByJames L. W. West III67Defoe, the Sacheverell Affair, and A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709) ByNicholas Seager79Isaiah Thomas’s Illustrated Imprints in the 1790s: The Provenance, Uses, and Production of their Illustrations BySandro Jung137Statistical Analysis of the Gutenberg 42-line Bible Types: Special Focus on Letters with a Suspension Stroke ByMari Agata and Teru Agata167Watermarks—From the Hand to the Machine BySidney E. Berger185The 1891 International Copyright Act: Lobbying Behind the Scenes ByJames J. Barnes283Nathaniel Price: The Life and Work of a Sometime Blind Bookbinder ByArthur S. Marks and Judith L. Marks313Carl P. Rollins and the Bibliographical Press at Yale University ByKatherine M. Ruffin343A Revised Account of the 1714 Works of Mr. William Shakespear ByMathieu D. S. Bouchard419Bonnie Jo Campbell (1962–): A Descriptive Bibliography ByRoss K. Tangedal463bibliographical notesAddendum to Roger E. Stoddard’s A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820 ByDavid R. Whitesell205The Case of Eleazar Edgar: Leicester’s Commonwealth and the Book Trade in 1604 ByJoseph Mansky233Sourcing a Reconstruction-Era Broadside ByJohn Russell and Jose Guerrero373Update377Some Thoughts on Benlowes’s Method of Illustrating his Theophila ByLev Tsitrin507review essayRecent Works on Americana87 ByJohn Neal Hoover reviewsNash, Andrew, Claire Squires, and I. R. Willison, eds. The Twentieth Century and Beyond, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 7 ByRobert L. Patten95Fallon, Samuel. Paper Monsters: Personae and Literary Culture in Elizabethan England ByAndrew S. Brown111Early English Books Online ByHeather Froehlich114Wolfe, Richard J. Marbled Paper: Its History, Techniques, and Patterns ByMeaghan J. Brown243Wolfe, Richard J. Josef Halfer and the Revival of the Art of Marbling Paper ByAmy L. Tigner245Donohue, Joseph, ed. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Vols. IX & X, Plays 2 & 3 ByJames Hamby248Johnston, Cynthia, ed. The Concept of the Book: The Production, Progression and Dissemination of Information ByJulia King252Eliot, Simon, and Jonathan Rose, eds. A Companion to the History of the Book, 2nd ed. ByKevin O’Sullivan254Payne, John R. Great Catalogues by Master Booksellers: A Selection of American and English Booksellers’ Catalogues, 19th – 21st Century ByDaniel J. Slive257Dietrich, Lucas A. Writing across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877–1920 ByJames L. W. West III263Russell, Gillian. The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century: Print, Sociability, and the Cultures of Collecting ByStuart Bennett379Selby, Mike. Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South ByAmy Gore382Bidwell, John. Paper and Type By Amanda Lastoria385Beely, Philip, Yelda Nasifoglu, and Benjamin Wardhaugh, eds. Reading Mathematics in Early Modern Europe: Studies in the Production, Collection, and Use of Mathematical Books ByJessica Otis388Jaillant, Lise, ed. Publishing Modernist Fiction and Poetry ByNicola Wilson391Head, Randolph C. Making Archives in Early Modern Europe: Proof, Information, and Political Record-Keeping, 1400–1700 ByKevin Windhauser394announcements and noticesThe Bibliographical Society of America: Minutes of the 2020 Annual Meeting517Independent Accountant’s Review Report523By-Laws of the Bibliographical Society of America541annual index for volume 115567 Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Volume 115, Number 4December 2021 Published for the Bibliographical Society of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/717164 Views: 252 © 2021 Bibliographical Society of America. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe. 5 vols. Stephen Bernard, General Editor. Vol. 1: The Early Plays, ed. Rebecca Bullard and John McTague; Vol. 2: The Middle Period Plays, ed. Michael Caines; Vol. 3: The Late Plays, ed. Claudine van Hensbergen; Vol. 4: Poems, ed. Stephen Bernard, and Lucan’s Pharsalia (I–III), ed. Robin Sowerby; Vol. 5: Lucan’s Pharsalia (IV–X)

<i>The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe</i>. 5 vols. Stephen Bernard, General Editor. Vol. 1: <i>The Early Plays</i>, ed. Rebecca Bullard and John McTague; Vol. 2: <i>The Middle Period Plays</i>, ed. Michael Caines; Vol. 3: <i>The Late Plays</i>, ed. Claudine van Hensbergen; Vol. 4: <i>Poems</i>, ed. Stephen Bernard, and <i>Lucan’s Pharsalia</i> (I–III), ed. Robin Sowerby; Vol. 5: <i>Lucan’s Pharsalia</i> (IV–X)

The Cambridge History of War, vol. II: War and the Medieval World, edited by Anne Curry and David A. Graff

The Cambridge History of War, vol. II: War and the Medieval World, edited by Anne Curry and David A. Graff

The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West, Volume I: Origins to the Eleventh Century and Volume II: The High and Late Middle Ages ed. by Alison I. Beach, Isabelle Cochelin, and: The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism ed. by Bernice M. Kaczynski (review)

The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West, Volume I: Origins to the Eleventh Century and Volume II: The High and Late Middle Ages ed. by Alison I. Beach, Isabelle Cochelin, and: The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism ed. by Bernice M. Kaczynski (review)

Susheila Nasta and Mark U. Stein (eds.). 2020. The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xxiv + 732 pp., £ 99.99.

Article Susheila Nasta and Mark U. Stein (eds.). 2020. The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xxiv + 732 pp., £ 99.99. was published on June 1, 2021 in the journal Anglia (volume 139, issue 2).

The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West: Volume 1: Origins to the Eleventh Century and Volume 2: The High and Late Middle Ages, Edited by Alison I. Beach and Isabelle Cochelin

The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West: Volume 1: Origins to the Eleventh Century and Volume 2: The High and Late Middle Ages, Edited by Alison I. Beach and Isabelle Cochelin

The Cambridge History of Music Criticism. Ed. by Christopher Dingle

<i>The Cambridge History of Music Criticism.</i> Ed. by Christopher Dingle

“Bubbling” the Fourth Age in the Time of COVID-19

“Bubbling” the Fourth Age in the Time of COVID-19

The Cambridge History of the Gothic. Vol. 1: Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century ed. by Angela Wright and Dale Townshend, and: The Cambridge History of the Gothic. Vol. 2: Gothic in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Dale Townshend and Angela Wright

Reviewed by: The Cambridge History of the Gothic. Vol. 1: Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century ed. by Angela Wright and Dale Townshend, and: The Cambridge History of the Gothic. Vol. 2: Gothic in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Dale Townshend and Angela Wright JoEllen Mary DeLucia Angela Wright and Dale Townshend, eds., The Cambridge History of the Gothic. Vol. 1: Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020). Pp. 516; 16 b/w illus. $155.00 cloth. Dale Townshend and Angela Wright, eds., The Cambridge History of the Gothic. Vol. 2: Gothic in the Nineteenth Century. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020) Pp. 541; 14 illus. $155.00 cloth. Defining the Gothic has been a perennial problem. Is it a literary genre, an aesthetic, or a style? As a historical marker, does it refer to the liberty-loving Goths of pre-Roman Britain, a medieval chivalric culture, or is it a negative definition of modernity? During the long eighteenth-century, Gothic was used as an adjective to describe architecture, political values, and, later, literary texts; in the nineteenth century, the term largely disappeared. In the twentieth century, Victorian studies adapted the Gothic as a “retrospective construct” (II:15)—a category used to group everything from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to the Kelmscott Press’s The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer under the same umbrella. The Gothic’s search for a clear referent has had the sometimes frustrating but also liberating effect of evacuating the term of any clear meaning. Dale Townshend and Angela Wright, the editors of the first two volumes of The Cambridge History of the Gothic, argue that instead of linking the Gothic to a historical period, discipline, or set of formal characteristics, we should understand it as a “mode.” Mode in these volumes means something close to a method or approach, an active means of both interrogating dominant histories and writing “counter-history” (I: 6). The discontinuities and the unevenness in the application of the term Gothic make the case for it as an approach or process. As Robert Miles argues, the Gothic might best be understood as “a temporal contrast . . . between the premodern world of ghosts (timeless, circular, repetitious, with porous boundaries between the self and other, this world and the next), and the empty, chronometric, homogenous time of modernity” (I: 449); or, as Tom Duggett persuasively suggests, “a zeitgeist term—a word in the process of becoming, through contestation and self-contradiction” (II: 105). One of the great strengths of Townshend and Wright’s turn to mode instead of form is that they are able to develop a truly interdisciplinary collection of essays, putting literature, history, art, architecture, and drama into conversation with one another. At the same time, the constraints of the linear history demanded by the form of a three-volume Cambridge History, with separate volumes dedicated to the long eighteenth century, the nineteenth century, and a yet to be published volume on the twentieth century, work against the Gothic mode itself. As I read, I sometimes wished that the essays were grouped in a non-linear fashion, interrogating instead of replicating progressive historical form. Despite these formal constraints, the collected essays provide a fascinating interdisciplinary and transnational look at the Gothic, which almost always begins its story with Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto (1764); those in eighteenth-century studies would find these volumes most useful as a means of building a counternarrative of our period’s influence, one that contests the aesthetic and philosophical tenets of the neo-Classical and Enlightenment impulses that still dominate understandings of the eighteenth century; in addition, the collection would aid eighteenth centuryists in responding to recent calls to think and teach beyond the traditional boundaries of period and [End Page 1012] discipline and track the echoes of issues central to the eighteenth century across periods and national traditions. With the third volume yet to be released, this review only considers the first two volumes, which are dedicated to the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they include an impressive forty-one essays from forty-two scholars writing from different disciplinary and national perspectives. In keeping with the Gothic mode, the essays are best read...

Women, Book History, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Taking Stock, Moving Forward

Women, Book History, and the Long Eighteenth Century:Taking Stock, Moving Forward Betty A. Schellenberg and Michelle Levy this special issue of the Huntington Library Quarterly aims to present new knowledge about the cultural, historical, and economic significance of female labor in manuscript and print production and circulation throughout the long eighteenth century. The interdisciplinary field of book history has at times been narrowly understood to refer only to print production of the codex form in the era of movable type, along with its supporting technologies and social contexts. In keeping with more recent approaches, we take book history's area of inquiry to encompass textual artifacts in their broadest material and historical manifestations, and in every aspect of their production, circulation, and reception. More specifically, it is our objective to move the field of book history forward by taking an inclusive approach to modes of textual production and by exploring new theoretical models and methods, especially those enabled by digital tools. As a whole, this volume begins to represent the extremely diverse range of projects and approaches currently being pursued by individual researchers. It is our hope that the dialogue initiated here can provide a model for and inspire the creation of further research exchanges and networks. As scholars, the contributors to this volume are of course familiar with the important shifts in the canon from the time, forty years ago, when few women were included in the anthologies used in North American and European classrooms. Nevertheless, we also recognize that women writers still are not granted a proportionate share of research or teaching focus and that the advent of digital media [End Page 1] has not resulted in the canon-busting that many feminist literary scholars had hoped for, as the cost of creating and maintaining large digital projects tends to privilege the familiar and the mainstream. Furthermore, many digital resources continue to focus on women as authors of printed books, which elides their engagement with manuscript forms and in periodicals. And although Leslie Howsam noted twenty years ago that "women can be identified at every node of the cycle [of print production and reception] and at all periods in history,"1 their contribution to bookmaking and the book trades for much of the period we consider has been almost entirely overlooked, underestimated, or ignored. In other words, much of the scholarship on women in communications media has not penetrated into what we might call mainstream or traditional book history and as a result remains fragmentary and diffuse. For example, only one chapter of forty-nine in the magisterial Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 1695–1830 (2009) addresses women's contributions for this period. In "Women and Print: Readers, Writers and the Market," Isobel Grundy asks, "What difference did women make to the book trade during the long eighteenth century?"2 She reaches the telling conclusion that we know very little in answer to that question. One of the purposes of our special issue is to take stock of the scholarship that exists in order to bridge what has been done previously with what can and must be done now. In this respect, we acknowledge our indebtedness to those who have begun this work, including Maureen Bell, Isobel Grundy, Leslie Howsam, Paula McDowell, and Kathryn Shevelow, to name only a few. The research projects we are variously involved in seek to develop answers to Grundy's question and to similar queries about writing and reading; by working together, we enhance our potential to advance the field. The introduction, essays, and responses included in this special issue arise out of a two-part symposium begun in Vancouver, British Columbia, in August 2018 and continued at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., in March 2019. This first-ever international meeting of experts working to unearth and communicate the stories of women's involvement in creating manuscript and print literature in the long eighteenth century (that is, from the final decades of the seventeenth century to the early nineteenth) brought together scholars, librarians, and archivists from Europe and North America. In those initial meetings and over the ensuing months, we have thought collectively about how we can...

The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature by Geraint Evans Helen Fulton

The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature by Geraint Evans Helen Fulton

Genealogies of Human Rights

This forthcoming chapter of 'The Cambridge History of Rights' discusses genealogies of human rights and asks a number of questions of them: what, who, why, when and where?