..., Miss Robertson provides the best available guide to these manuals. The value of her essay is further enhanced by a useful bibliography. LOUISB. WRIGHT The Huntington Library London in Flames, London in Glory. By ROBERTA. AUBIN.New Brunswick...

...James L. Clifford Archibald Bolling Shepperson. Richmond, Va.: The Dietz Press, 1942. Pp. 501. $4.00. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 REVIEWS John Paradise and Lucy Ludwell of London and Williainsburg. By ARCHIBALDBOLLING SHEPPERSON...

...Robert D. Hume Some 250 English comedies are set in London between circa 1600 and 1737. Three clichés about them remain current. First, “Jacobean city comedy” performs serious sociopolitical work. Second, the social level of the protagonists rises in the “comedy of wit” or “comedy of manners...

...Pamela Cheek Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics,and Literary Culture, 1630-1685. By James Grantham Turner. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2002. xxii + 343 pp.; Schooling Sex:Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England,1534-1685...

... Quebec to Carolina in 1785-1786: Being the Travel Diary and Ob- servations of Robert Hunter, Jr., a Young Merchant of London. Edited by LOUISB. WRIGHTand MARIONTINLING. San Marino, California: The Huntington Library, 1943. Pp. ix + 393. $5.00. The editors of this old travel diary...

...Fredson Bowers P. M. Handover. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. Pp. 224. $4.75. Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 REVIEWS Printing in London froin 1476 to Modern Times: Coinpctitive Practice and Technical Invention...

...Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski Abstract The Triestine author Italo Svevo spent a considerable amount of time in London and its environs between 1901 and 1926. His experiences there influenced his modernist writing, including Zeno’s Conscience , his most famous novel. Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s...

...Brean Hammond The Publication of Plays in London, 1660–1800: Playwrights, Publishers, and the Market . By Milhous Judith and Hume Robert D. . London : British Library . xxvi + 483 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 This book is the revised form...

...John Plotz The Sky of Our Manufacture: The London Fog in British Fiction from Dickens to Woolf . By Taylor Jesse Oak . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2016 . xii + 260 pp. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 In “The Storm-Cloud...

...Robert H. Bell Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 BOSWELL’S NOTES TOWARD A SUPREME FICTION FROM LONDON JOURNAL TO LIFE OF JOHNSON By ROBERTH. BELL Boswell’s London Journal, 1762-1763 reveals a great deal about...

... The London Muse: Victorian Poelic Responses to the City. By WILLIAMB. THES- ING. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982. xviii + 230 pp. $20.00. Of the unearthing of “traditions” and “themes” in the literature of earlier periods there is no end. To his credit, William Thesing in The London...

.... CLOTILDEWILSON UniverJity of Washington The Sources of “A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues,” by Randle Cotgrave (London, 1611) : A Study in Renaissance Lexicography. By VERA E. SMALLEY.Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages, Extra...

... Jefferies, Mark Twain, and others. Jefferies’s 1885 After London , an early and critically neglected work of British speculative fiction, is a bellwether of the widely distributed naturalist impulses among novelists responding to the era of scientific naturalism marked by the appearance of Charles Darwin’s...

...Timothy Anderson Abstract Alfred Forman’s translations of Richard Wagner’s operas are often derided for their weird diction and minute imitation of German poetic devices. Forman has seemed to represent a zealous and uncritical approach to Wagner that was typical of the early London Wagner Society...

...Heather Murray W. J. Alexander, trained at London and Johns Hopkins and appointed in 1889 by the University of Toronto as one of the first dedicated professors of English literature in Canada, was well positioned to direct the new discipline of English literary studies across the country and at all...

...Liam Lanigan Abstract This essay explores how John Lanchester’s Capital adapts classical realism to represent the contemporary global city; it pays particular attention to how London’s position in the world-system disrupts Lukácsian totality. Because the novel attends to the complexity...

... Westminster Abbey and the capitol-like Whitehall—is revisited in Milton’s epic. God expels Adam and Eve from Eden and subsequently washes away the garden during the Flood to prevent it from turning into a temple-and-grove along the lines of Pandaemonium or a capital seat like Charles’s London, in either case...