Reviews: Twilight of the Literary: Figures of Thought in the Age of Print, the History and Narrative Reader, Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography, Textual Histories: Readings in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Tools of Literacy: The Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England, Beyond, a Companion to Milton, the Writing of Royalism, 1628–1660, the Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories, Heroes and States: On the Ideology of Restoration Tragedy, Distant Fields: Eighteenth-Century Fictions of Wales, the other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern, a Frenchman's Year in Suffolk, 1784, the Great Exhibition of 1851: New Interdisciplinary Essays, Railways and Culture in Britain: The Epitome of Modernity, the New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: Fin de siècle Feminisms, Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War, the Cambridge Companion to Travel WritingCochranTerry, Twilight of the Literary: Figures of Thought in the Age of Print , Harvard University Press, 2001, pp. 288, £27.50.RobertsGeoffrey, The History and Narrative Reader , Routledge, 2001, pp. 452, £55, £16.99 pb.FrancePeter and St ClairWilliam (eds), Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography , published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. x + 350, £35.BredehoftThomas A., Textual Histories: Readings in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , University of Toronto Press2001, pp. 229, £50.NordalGuorun, Tools of Literacy: The Role of Skaldic Verse in Icelandic Textual Culture of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries , University of Toronto Press, 2001, pp. 440, £60.SwannMarjorie, Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England , University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001, pp. 280, $49.95.ErneLukas, Beyond The Spanish Tragedy: A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd , Manchester University Press, 2001, pp. xix + 252, £45.CornsThomas N. (ed.), A Companion to Milton , Blackwell, 2002, pp. xvi + 528, £80; LoewensteinDavid, Representing Revolution in Milton and his Contemporaries , Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. xiv + 413, £40.WilcherRobert, The Writing of Royalism, 1628–1660 , Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 400, £40.PooleRobert (ed.), The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories , Manchester University Press, 2003, pp. xiv + 226, £45, £14.99 pb.CranfieldJ. Douglas, Heroes and States: On the Ideology of Restoration Tragedy , University Press of Kentucky, 2000, pp. xvii + 249, $39.95.DearnleyMoira, Distant Fields: Eighteenth-century Fictions of Wales , University of Wales Press, 2001, pp. xxii + 246, £25.HesseCarla, The Other Enlightenment: How French Women Became Modern , Princeton University Press, 2001, pp. xix + 233, £24.95; HillBridget, Women Alone: Spinsters in England 1660–1850 , Yale University Press, 2001, pp. viii + 219, £25.00.ScarfeNorman (ed. and transl.), A Frenchman's Year in Suffolk, 1784 , Suffolk Records Society, vol. 30, 1988, pp. xv + 226, 44 illus., £25.00; ScarfeNorman, Innocent Espionage: The La Rochefoucauld Brothers' Tour of England in 1785 , Boydell Press, 1995, pp. xx + 270, 62 illus., £25; ScarfeNorman, To the Highlands in 1786: The Inquisitive Journey of a Young French Aristocrat , Boydell Press, 2001, pp. xxiv + 276, 71 illus., 2 maps, £30.PurbrickLouise (ed.), The Great Exhibition of 1851: New Interdisciplinary Essays , Texts in Culture, Manchester University Press, 2001, pp. xii + 217, £45, £15.99 pb.CarterIan, Railways and Culture in Britain: The Epitome of Modernity , Manchester University Press, 2001, pp. xi + 338, £49.99, £16.99 pb.RichardsonAngelique and WillisChris (eds), The New Woman in Fiction and in Fact: fin de siècle Feminisms , Palgrave, 2001, pp. 258, £42.50.HaslamSara, Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War , Manchester University Press, 2002, pp. 233, £40.HulmePeter and YoungsTim (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing , Cambridge University Press, 2002, illustrations, pp. x + 343, £45, £15.95 pb.

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-105
Author(s):  
David Watson ◽  
Keith Jenkins ◽  
Peter Clark ◽  
Babara Yorke ◽  
Philip Cardew ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Ford Madox Ford ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
Textual Culture ◽  
The Great War

scholarly journals Handling the Theme of Hands in early Modern Cross-over Contexts

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Anne Sophie Haar Refskou ◽  
Laura Søvsø Thomasen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Human Hand ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Comparative Analyses ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Textual Culture ◽  
The Many ◽  
Frequent Presence

The human hand is a complex phenomenon within the contexts of early modern visual and textual culture. Its frequent presence in early modern texts and illustrations - as well as the many different types of described and depicted hands - raises a number of questions as to its functions and significances. In this article, we examine the role of the hand and two of its familiar functions –pointing and touching – against diverse and diverging understandings of human perception and cognition in the period focussing particularly on relations between bodies and minds. Through comparative analyses of cross-over examples from both medicine, manuals and drama – primarily John Bulwer’sChirologia and Chironomia, William Harvey’s de Motu Cordis and extracts from Shakespeare’s plays – we explore the questions implied by hands and their contributions to the knowledge probed and proposed by these texts and illustrations.

Simon Franklin, Writing, society and culture in early Rus, c. 950–1300. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 325. Hb $65.00 US; and Sean Hawkins, Writing and colonialism in Northern Ghana: The encounter between the LoDagaa and ‘the world on paper’. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 468. Hb $80.00 Can.

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 734-738
Author(s):  
David R. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ghana ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
General Reader ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Sources

Two remarkable books arrived on my desk from quite different sources early in 2003. My purpose in reviewing them is twofold: first, to convince the general reader that the study of culture can no longer ignore the transformative role of written documents in social and mental life in either antique cultures or in contemporary modernizing ones; and second, to introduce the authors of these fine books to each other.

Junius's knowledge of the Old English poem Durham

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 231-245
Author(s):  
Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Old English ◽  
British Library ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
English Poem ◽  
University Library ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Original Manuscript

Until recently, the late Old English poem Durham was known to have been copied in two manuscripts of the twelfth century: Cambridge, University Library, Ff. 1. 27 (C) and London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius D. xx (V). C has been transcribed frequently and serves as the basis for Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie's standard edition of the poem in the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records. V was almost completely destroyed in the Cottonian fire of 1731. Its version is known to us solely from George Hickes's 1705 edition (H).In a recent article, however, Donald K. Fry announced the discovery of a third medieval text of the poem. Like V, the original manuscript of this ‘third’ version is now lost and can be reconstructed only from an early modern transcription - in this case a copy by Francis Junius no win the Stanford University Library (Stanford University Libraries, Department of Special Collections, Misc. 010 [J1]). Unlike V, however, Junius's copy is our only record of this manuscript's existence. No other transcripts are known from medieval or early modern manuscript catalogues.

COURT STUDIES AND THE COURTS OF EARLY MODERN EUROPE

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1229-1238 ◽  
Author(s):  
HANNAH SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Court Culture ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
English Court ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Historical Revisionism ◽  
Internal Forces ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Anglo American

A court in exile: the Stuarts in France, 1689–1718. By Edward Corp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi+386. ISBN 0-521-58462-0. £55.00.Vienna and Versailles: the courts of Europe's dynastic rivals, 1550–1780. By Jeroen Duindam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi+349. ISBN 0-521-82262-9. £60.00.Intrigue and treason: the Tudor court, 1547–1558. By David Loades. Harlow: Pearson, 2004. Pp. x+326. ISBN 0-582-77226-5. £19.99.Queenship in Europe, 1660–1815: the role of the consort. Edited by Clarissa Campbell Orr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii+419. ISBN 0-521-81422-7. £60.00.Court culture in Dresden: from Renaissance to Baroque. By Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. xv+310. ISBN 0-333-98448-X. £47.50.Over the last three decades, the royal or princely court has become an established feature of the historiographical landscape of early modern Europe. The subject of a forest of monographs and theses, the theme of a plethora of university undergraduate courses, it has even gained an Anglo-American academic society (and accompanying journal) dedicated to ‘court studies’. While the first wave of Anglophone court historians, writing in the 1970s and 1980s, considered it necessary to state explicitly, as David Starkey did in his introduction to the seminal The English court, that the study of the early modern court was a legitimate historical activity, such a stance is no longer necessary. Indeed, few political historians would now omit the court from their narratives, even if their principal focus was directed elsewhere. In The English court, Starkey presented his enterprise, and that of his co-contributors, as part of a broader process of historical revisionism. But, by the late 1990s, court studies had itself become subject to its own internal forces of revisionism. The books reviewed here not only illustrate the diversity of projects undertaken by scholars of the court; they also critique the interpretations and approaches of an earlier generation of court historians.

scholarly journals Le Rabelais ressuscité (1611) de Nicolas de Horry et la tradition des mandements joyeux

Neophilologus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47
Author(s):  
Rozanne Versendaal
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
Critical Content ◽  
French Author ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThis article discusses the role of mandements joyeux or joyful writs in the novel Rabelais ressuscité (1611) by the little-known French author Nicolas de Horry. The article first provides insight into the tradition and parodic nature of joyful writs. In a next step, the joyful writs in Horry’s text are identified, and the functions of these parodic passages in the narrative structure of the novel are analysed. Finally, the article demonstrates how an institutional approach to this Early Modern novel, concentrating on the identification of possible readers of the text, can contribute to a better understanding of the critical content of the joyful writs.

Marginalized Memories and Multi-Layered Narratives of the Great War in Kamila Shamsie’s A God In Every Stone (2014)

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-246
Author(s):  
Tara Talwar Windsor
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The Great War

Abstract Taking Kamila Shamsie’s 2014 war novel A God in Every Stone as its core case study, this article examines the development of increasingly complex, heterogeneous and inclusive understandings and memories of the Great War in the twenty-first century. It demonstrates how the novel’s complex and intricate narrative, as well as its paratextual framing and much of its reception, offer a timely engagement with a range of hitherto hidden or marginalized histories, particularly in relation to the role of women and experiences of South Asian soldiers, as well as with colonial violence and anti-colonial resistance in the war’s aftermath. At the same time, the novel underscores the ambivalences contained in those stories. Through this analysis, the article considers the extent to which A God in Every Stone can be seen as a ‘more expansive form of commemoration [...] with the scope for multiple narratives’.1 The novel is also ‘historically and ethically responsible’, not least in its critical reflection on the purposes, practices and power structures behind longer-standing historical narratives and cultural memories of the war itself and the (imperial) past in a post-colonial global context.

scholarly journals SEMANTIC SHIFT AS A SOURCE OF LEGAL TERMINOLOGY DEVELOPMENT (BASED ON ENGLISH)

2019 ◽  
pp. 150-159
Author(s):  
Elena P. Popova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
The Status ◽  
Semantic Shift ◽  
Internal Sources ◽  
Semantic Transfer ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Linguistic Material

The article considers the issues of semantic derivation, its role and place in English legal terms forming at different stages of legal vocabulary development. Semantic derivation (in various sources also referred to as semantic shift and semantic transfer), along with word-building, is one of the internal sources of a language word-stock development and enlargement. A short insight into the theory of terminology at the beginning of the paper enables to determine the status of a term, its relative features, semantic requirements for a term, and to review the most common ways of term formation. Further, the place and role of legal vocabulary are viewed in relation to general literary language, and the issue of English legal terms variance is brought up. Dynamics in the semantic structure of a word is well traced in diachronic and synchronic studies of semantically reinterpreted items from the point of view of their connection with extra linguistic realities. In the experiment, the focus has been made upon the linguistic material of the Old English, Middle English and Early Modern English periods in relation to the periods of Anglo-Saxon law...

scholarly journals Art, Nature and the Negotiation of Memory in J. L. Carr’s A Month in the Country

2018 ◽  
Vol 136 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-467
Author(s):  
María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Pastoral Mode ◽  
Regenerative Power ◽  
Central Characters ◽  
The Great War

Abstract The present article analyses J. L. Carr’s novel A Month in the Country (1980) in the light of an approach to traumatic experience as paradoxically relating destructiveness and survival. This view of trauma – already present in Freud and further elaborated in more recent theories like Cathy Caruth’s – accentuates the possibility of constructing a new story that bears witness not only to the shattering effects of trauma but also to a departure from it. From this perspective, the author deals first with the role of art as a survival aid to the novel’s traumatised protagonist, explaining how his restoration of a medieval mural helps him work through his troubled memories of the Great War. Repetitions and doublings link the two central characters, their discoveries and their recovery, creating layers of meaning that, it is argued, call for a ‘palimpsestuous’ reading, in Sarah Dillon’s sense of the term. The author then focuses on the regenerative power of nature in the novel, relating its use of the pastoral to the frequent recourse to it in Great War literature, and interpreting Carr’s text in line with critical approaches that reject escapism as the main trait of the pastoral mode. Finally, the protagonist’s retrospective narration is discussed as a creative act that is also an aid to the survival of the self.1

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