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Catherine Innes-Parker

Þe Passioun of Our Lord Branches IX–XII, Sections 33–48: Edited from St. John's College, Cambridge, MS G.20 by Catherine Innes-Parker
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Get checked abstract Eric Langley

"And Died to Kiss his Shadow": The Narcissistic Gaze in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis
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Get checked abstract Pollie Bromilow

Inside Out: Female Bodies in Rabelais
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on December 17, 2007
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Get checked abstract Daniel Just

Weakness as a Form of Engagement: Maurice Blanchot on the Figure of the Last Man
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Ni Ennemie, Ni Rivale: Female Friendship in Works by Alice Rivaz, Anne-Lise Grobéty and Noëlle Revaz
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Get checked abstract Catherine J. Minter

The Psychology of Association in Karl Philipp Moritz's Anton Reiser
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The Mirage of the New World: Eveline Hasler's Ibicaba, das Paradies in den Köpfen
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on December 17, 2007
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Affaires de famille: The Family in Contemporary French Culture and Theory. Ed. Marie-Claire Barnet & Edward Welch. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2007. 347 pp. £49.70. ISBN 978–90–420–2170–9
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BEGLEY, VARUN. Harold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism. Toronto, Buffalo & London: University of Toronto Press, 2005. x + 207 pp. £35.00/$55.00. ISBN 0–8020–3887–5
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BLOUET, OLWYN M. The Contemporary Caribbean: History, Life and Culture since 1945. London: Reaktion Books (Contemporary Worlds), 2007. 160 pp. £14.95. ISBN 1–86189–313–2
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BROWN, HILDA MELDRUM. E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Serapiontic Principle: Critique and Creativity. Rochester, NY & Woodbridge: Camden House, 2006. 211 pp. £45.00/$75.00. ISBN 1–57113–348–8
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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama. Ed. Shaun Richards. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv + 287 pp. £45.00 (hardback); £17.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–80400–0/00873–5
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CAÑADAS, IVAN. Public Theater in Golden Age Madrid and Tudor-Stuart London: Class, Gender and Festive Community. Aldershot: Ashgate (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama), 2005. xiv + 233 pp. £50.00. ISBN 0–7546–5187–8
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The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Ed. Thomas M. Carr, Jr. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press (EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, 11), 2007. x + 267 pp. ISBN 978–1–886365–64–3
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Collaboration in the Arts from the Middle Ages to the Present. Eds. Silvia Bigliazzi & Sharon Wood. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006. xii + 221 pp. £50.00. ISBN 0–7546–5512–1
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Conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France: Essays in Honour of Keith Cameron. Ed. David Cowling. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi (Faux Titre, 281), 2006. 204 pp. ISBN 90–420–2006–7
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FARRANT, TIM. An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century French Literature. London: Duckworth, 2007. 216 pp. £14.99. ISBN 0715629077
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GARRAWAY, DORIS. The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2005. xvi + 412 pp. £16.95. ISBN 0–8223–3465–8
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How Joyce Wrote "Finnegans Wake": A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide. Ed. Luca Crispi & Sam Slote. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press (Irish Studies in Literature and Culture), 2007. 522 pp. $65.00. ISBN 0–299–21860–0
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HOWE, ALAN. Écrivains de Théâtre, 1600–1649: Documents du Minutier Central des Notaires de Paris. Paris: Centre historique des Archives nationales, 2005. xiii + 340 pp. 35.00. ISBN 2–86000–311–8
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JONES, CHRIS. Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 266 pp. £50.00. ISBN 0–19–927832–6
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LAMBROPOULOS, VASSILIS. The Tragic Idea. London: Duckworth, 2006. 158 pp. £12.99. ISBN 0–7156–355–8
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Learning English. Eds. N. Mercer, J. Swann & B. Mayor. Abingdon: Routledge, 2007. iii + 296 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978–0–415–37687–7
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MALLARMÉ, STÉPHANE. Divagations. Trans. Barbara Johnson. Cambridge, MA & London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. x + 302 pp. £19.95/$29.95. ISBN 978–0–674–02438–0
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MARDER, STEPHEN. A Supplementary Russian–English Dictionary (ASRED 2). Bloomington, IN: Slavica, second edition, 2007. xxv + 736 pp. $44.95. ISBN 978–0–89357–327–2
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Modern Perspectives on the Early Modern: Temps recherché, temps retrouvé. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press (EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, 10), 2005. x +186 pp. ISBN 1–886365–54–7
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MORASH, CHRISTOPHER. A History of Irish Theatre, 1601–2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx + 322 pp. £40.00/$60.00 (hardback); £16.99/$24.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–64117–9/64682–0
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NICHOLLS, ANGUS. Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic After the Ancients. Woodbridge: Camden House, 2006. xii + 313 pp. £45.00/$75.00. ISBN 1–57113–307–0
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ORME, MARK. The Development of Albert Camus's Concern for Social and Political Justice: "justice pour un juste". Madison, Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 350 pp. ISBN 978–0–8386–4110–1
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ORTEGA, JULIO. Transatlantic Translations: Dialogues in Latin American Literature. Trans. Philip Derbyshire. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. 222 pp. £25.00. ISBN 1–86189–287–X
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OSER, LEE. The Ethics of Modernism: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 185 pp. £45.00/$80.00. ISBN 0–521–86725–8
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PARATI, GRAZIELLA. Migration Italy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 272 pp. £35.00/$55.00. ISBN 0–8020–3924–3
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PETERS, JOHN G. The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. x + 146 pp. £35.00/$65.00 (hardback); £10.99/$19.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–83972–6/54867–5
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PRAGER, BRAD. Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images. Rochester & Woodbridge: Camden House, 2007. viii + 287 pp. £45.00/$75.00. ISBN (13): 987–1–57113–341–0/(10): 1–57113–341–0
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RANASINHA, RUVANI. South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain: Culture in Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. viii + 302 pp. £50.00. ISBN 978–0–19–920777–0
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Re-Visiting Angela Carter: Texts, Contexts, Intertexts. Ed. Rebecca Munford. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xiv + 207 pp. £45.00. ISBN 1–4039–9705–5
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ROWLAND, INGRID. The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. x + 230 pp. £16.00/$22.50. ISBN 0–226–73037–9
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RUZ, ROBERTO. Contemporary Peruvian Narrative and Popular Culture: Jaime Bayly, Iván Thays and Jorge Eduardo Benavides. Woodbridge: Tamesis (Serie A: Monografías, 212), 2005. 130 pp. £40.00/$80.00. ISBN 1–85566–110–1
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SALOM, JAIME. Three Comedies. Ed. Gregary J. Racz. University Press of Colorado: Boulder, CO, 2004. viii + 227 pp. $45.00 (hardback); $18.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–87081–780–9/781–7
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SAND, GEORGE. Valvèdre. Trans. and intro. Françoise Massardier-Kenney. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xvii + 203 pp. $65.50 (hardback); $21.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–7914–7059–6/7060–2
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Schiller's "On Grace and Dignity" in Its Cultural Context. Essays and a New Translation. Ed. Jane V. Curran & Christophe Fricker. Rochester, New York: Camden House (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture), 2005. 231 pp. $65.00/£45.00. ISBN 1–157113–3054
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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. The Poems. Ed. John Roe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (The New Cambridge Shakespeare), 2006. xvi + 309 pp. £40.00/$60.00 (hardback); £7.99/$14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–85551–9/67162–0
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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. The Sonnets. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (The New Cambridge Shakespeare), 2006. xiv + 277 pp. £40.00/$60.00 (hardback); £7.99/$14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–86118–7/67837–4
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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Titus Andronicus. Ed. Alan Hughes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (The New Cambridge Shakespeare), 2006. xii + 180 pp. £40.00/$70.00 (hardback); £7.99/$14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–85708–2/67382–8
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SHIEL, MARK. Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City. London & New York: Wallpaper (Short Cuts), 2006. 142 pp. £12.99/$20.00. ISBN 1–904764–48–7
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The Spanish Match: Prince Charles's Journey to Madrid, 1623. Ed. Alexander Samson. Aldershot: Ashgate 2006. viii + 243 pp. £55.00. ISBN 0–7546–4087–6
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SPROLES, KARYN Z. Desiring Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xii + 242 pp. £42.00/$65.00 (hardback); £20.00/$29.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–8020–3883–2/9402–3
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Theorising National Cinema. Ed. Valentina Vitali & Paul Willemen. London: BFI Publishing, 2006. x + 326 pp. £60.00 (hardback); £16.99 (paperback). ISBN 1–844–57119–X/57120–3
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THOMAS, HELEN. Caryl Phillips. Tavistock: Northcote, British Council (Writers and their Work), 2006. xii + 100 pp. £40.00 (hardback); £12.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–7463–1124–9/0956–2
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WARDLE, CATHY HELEN. Beyond Écriture Féminine: Repetition and Transformation in the Prose Writing of Jeanne Hyvrard. London: MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 2007. viii + 145 pp. £37.00. ISBN 978–1–904350–63–7
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WATSON, ROBERT N. Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. viii + 437 pp. £39.00/$59.95. ISBN 0–8122–3905–9
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The Women's Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914–19. Eds. Alison S. Fell & Ingrid Sharp. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xii + 272 pp. £50.00. ISBN (13): 978–0–230–01966–9/(10): 0–230–01966–8
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WOOD, JASON. Talking Movies: Contemporary World Filmmakers in Interview. London & New York: Wallflower Press, 2006. xi + 239 pp. £45.00 (hardback); £16.99 (paperback). ISBN 1–904764–91–6/90–8
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Writing to Delight: Italian Short Stories by Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. Eds. Antonia Arslan & Gabriella Romani. London: University of Toronto, 2006. 210 pp. £48.00 (hardback)/£20.00 (paperback). ISBN 0–8020–3874–3/3810–7
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ZALLOUA, ZAHI. Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism. Charlottesville: Rockwood Press (EMF Critiques), 2005. xii + 191 pp. ISBN 1–886365–56–3
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