August 2012

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Becoming John Updike Critical Reception: 1958-2010 Laurence W. Mazzeno A study of the journalistic and academic reception of the writings of one of the great American writers of the late twentieth century. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $75.00	Jan 2013	English & American Literature	Academic	Camden House
Curating Human Remains Caring for the Dead in the United Kingdom Edited by Myra Giesen The difficult and sensitive issue of how museums and other repositories should treat human remains in their possession is here addressed through a number of important case studies. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $80.00	Mar 2013	Archaeology	Academic	Boydell Press
Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination Teshale Tebibu Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination is a critical study of one of the most prolific and encyclopedic Black world intellectuals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows the contradictions, ambiguities, complexities, and paradoxes in the ideology of Black racial nationalism as articulated by Blyden. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $90.00	Dec 2013	African Studies	Academic	University of Rochester Press
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Ovid Magical and Monstrous Realities Lorna Robinson This book explores the ways in which Ovid's poem Metamorphoses, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, use magical devices to construct their literary realities. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $90.00	Jan 2013	Hispanic Studies	Academic	Tamesis Books
Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the Berlin Republic Edited by Stuart Taberner & Karina Berger First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $75.00	Jan 2013	German Literature	Academic	Camden House
Liberation Movements in Power Party and State in Southern Africa Roger Southall Analyses the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, SWAPO in Namibia and the ANC in South Africa and to what extent their promises of democracy have been effected. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £45.00 \| US $80.00	Mar 2013	African Studies	Academic	James Currey
*Life Writing in Carmen Martin Gaite's Cuadernos de todo* and Her Novels of the 1990s** Maria-Jose Blanco Lopez de Lerma This book studies life writing in Martín Gaite's notebooks, drawing a parallel between the notebooks and her fictional work. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Jan 2013	Hispanic Studies	Academic	Tamesis Books
Medieval English Lyrics and Carols Edited by Thomas G. Duncan A new and comprehensive anthology of medieval lyrics and carols, in new editions, with introduction and commentary. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £25.00 \| US $45.00	Feb 2013	Medieval Literature	Academic	D.S. Brewer
Medieval Hispanic Studies in Memory of Alan Deyermond Edited by Andrew M. Beresford, Louise M. Haywood & Julian Weiss The essays in this volume cover lyric, hagiography, clerical verse narrative, frontier balladry, historical and codicological studies, and include the draft of an unpublished essay found amongst Professor Deyermond's papers. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	Mar 2013	Hispanic Studies	Academic	Tamesis Books
Medievalist Enlightenment From Charles Perrault to Jean-Jaques Rousseau Alicia C. Montoya The influence on Enlightenment thought of medievalism has been underestimated; it is here reappraised and its significance brought out. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $85.00	Mar 2013	Medieval Literature	Academic	D.S. Brewer
Records of the Convention of Royal Burghs 1555; 1631-1648 Edited by Alan R. MacDonald & Mary Versc Material from conventions of Scottish parliamentary towns sheds fresh light on their activities and actions, from giving judgements in disputes to raising money for building projects. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £40.00 \| US $70.00	Feb 2012	Early Modern History	Academic	Scottish History Society
Rethinking Hanslick Music, Formalism, and Expression Edited by Nicole Grimes, Siobhan Donovan & Wolfgang Marx An innovative and incisive reassessment of a seminal figure in nineteenth-century musical life, through a fresh consideration of his aesthetic, critical, and autobiographical writings. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $90.00	Jan 2013	Music	Academic	University of Rochester Press
Scribes and the City London Guildhall Clerks and the Dissemination of Middle English Literature, 1375-1425 Linne R. Mooney & Estelle Stubbs Scribes played a crucial part in the flourishing and availablity of literature in English during the time of Chaucer. This book reveals for the first time who they were, where and how they worked, and the crucial role they played in bringing this literature to a wider public. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £35.00 \| US $60.00	Mar 2013	Medieval Literature	Academic	York Medieval Press
Shaping Courtliness in Medieval France Essays in Honor of Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner Edited by Daniel E. O'Sullivan & Laurie Shepard The question of what medieval "courtliness" was, both as a literary influence and as a historical "reality", is debated in this volume. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	Feb 2013	Gallica	Academic	D.S. Brewer
The Aesthetic Life of Cyril Scott Sarah Collins The first comprehensive account of the life and influences of Cyril Scott. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £55.00 \| US $95.00	Mar 2013	Music	Academic	Boydell Press
The Culture of Inquisition in Medieval England Edited by Mary C. Flannery & Katie L. Walter Groundbreaking essays show the variety and complexity of the roles played by inquisition in medieval England. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $99.00	Mar 2013	Medieval History	Academic	D.S. Brewer
The Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms Eamon Darcy A new investigation into the 1641 Irish rebellion, contrasting its myth with the reality. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Feb 2013	Early Modern History	Academic	Royal Historical Society
The Reverend Jennie Johnson and African Canadian History 1868-1967 Nina Reid-Marony Jennie Johnson was a black Baptist preacher and the first ordained woman to serve in Canada. She spent her life, spanning from Reconstruction to the modern civil rights movement, building churches and working for racial justice on both sides of the Canadian border. In this first scholarly treatment of this fascinating and understudied figure, her story offers a unique and powerful view of nearly one hundred years of the struggle for freedom in North America. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £60.00 \| US $90.00	Apr 2013	Women's & Gender Studies	Academic	niversity of Rochester Press
Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World Edited by Noah D. Guynn & Zrinka Stahuljak An examination of medieval historican writings through the prism of violence. Click here for a printable information sheet UK £50.00 \| US $90.00	Feb 2013	Gallica	Academic	D.S. Brewer