Published October 2022
Classical Comedy 1508-1786: A Legacy from Italy and France
Richard Andrews
Italian Perspectives 55
- ‘An encyclopedic contribution to the history of comedy, with a particular focus on the transformation of comedy in Paris, where the greatest playwrights preserved the genre’s positive vision and harnessed the vitality of the Italian “Arte” to create their more serious comedies of character... The “Analyses” section is particularly valuable. It is divided between technical questions and plot or character issues, and the technical discussions, informed by Andrews extraordinary knowledge and deep understanding of how comedy works, are outstanding.’ — 552-54, Annali d'Italianistica 2023, 41, Laurie Shepard
SPQR in the USSR: Elena Shvarts’s Classical Antiquity
Georgina Barker
Legenda (General Series)
- ‘The book is a treasure trove, and not just for those interested in antiquity. It was written after Shvarts’s death and after access to archival materials opened out a fuller picture of her notebooks, drafts, and discards. Barker takes excellent advantage of this bounty, amply illustrating her study with photographs of the poet and with copies of many manuscripts (which nearly always show how little Shvarts amended as she worked)... [Her] insightful reading of the brilliant poem Homo Musagetes is a fitting culmination of the entire book and a model for the kind of interpretive work that is still to come for many other Shvarts poems. We will all be building on Barker’s superb book in undertaking that work.’ — Stephanie Sandler, Russian Review 82, 2023, 535-36 (full text online)
- ‘Georgina Barker’s new book on Elena Shvarts’s classical reception is a welcome addition to the growing number of monographs on Russia’s literary reception of Greece and Rome... Overall, this book will be useful to scholars interested in classical reception in Russia. It will also serve in graduate-level seminars addressing reception studies and comparative literary approaches.’ — Zara Torlone, Modern Language Review 2024, 119.1, 176-78 (full text online)
For the Love of Art
Peter Dayan
Selected Essays 10
- ‘Rich and powerful discussions, bursting with invention and life. This is a formidably clever sequence of essays in which major writers and musicians are set in contrast and dialogue with each other.’ — John Batchelor, Modern Language Review 119.2, 2024, 181-88 (full text online)
Matilde de la Torre: Sex, Socialism and Suffrage in Republican Spain
Deborah Madden
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 56
Published December 2022
The Holocaust in French Postmodern Fiction: Aesthetics, Politics, Ethics
Helena Duffy
Research Monographs in French Studies 64
Essay as Enabler in Yves Bonnefoy: Creating the Good Reader
Layla Roesler
Research Monographs in French Studies 67
Literature, Democracy and Transitional Justice: Comparative World Perspectives
Edited by Mohamed-Salah Omri and Philippe Roussin
Transcript 19
Published January 2023
Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy
Eugenio Refini
Italian Perspectives 48
Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy and Beyond: Materiality, Paratexts and Interpretative Strategies
Edited by Guyda Armstrong, Simon A. Gilson and Federica Pich
Italian Perspectives 56
Can Fiction Change the World?
Edited by Alison James, Akihiro Kubo, and Françoise Lavocat
Transcript 29
Published February 2023
Making Space in Post-War France: The Dreams, Realities and Aftermath of State Planning
Edward Welch
Research Monographs in French Studies 69
Out of Focus: Russia at the Margins
Catriona Kelly
Selected Essays 8
- ‘For a collection of scholarly pieces, Out of Focus is a very personal project. Catriona Kelly presents a view of Russian culture that deliberately eschews Big History and looks instead at 'unconsidered trifles' and the experiences of marginal groups 'beyond the focus of Russian history as conventionally practised'.’ — Wendy Slater, Times Literary Supplement 16 June 2023
- ‘Kelly’s pivot towards documenting the tiny details, daily intrigues, and cultural stereotypes dominant among both the Russian elites and ordinary people amounts to a genuinely new and illuminating view on Russian history. In this book she observes, not the tip of the historical iceberg, but the section lurking under the surface.’ — Valery Vyugin, Modern Language Review 119.2, 2024, 292-94 (full text online)
Published April 2023
Standing at the Crossroads: Stories of Doubt in Renaissance Italy
Marco Faini
Italian Perspectives 58
The Cinema of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
Edited by Martin Brady and Helen Hughes
Moving Image 14
Genet's Genres of Politics
Mairéad Hanrahan
Research Monographs in French Studies 50
Published August 2023
Rome, 16 October 1943: History, Memory, Literature
Mara Josi 
Italian Perspectives 60
Contested Communities: Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe
Edited by Kate Averis, Margaret Littler, and Godela Weiss-Sussex
Studies In Comparative Literature 57
Dante’s Blood
Anne C. Leone
Italian Perspectives 59
Memory, Identity and the Historical Novel in Uruguay: Opening up the Archive 1985-2010
Karunika Kardak
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures 52
Women on the Yiddish Stage
Edited by Alyssa Quint and Amanda Miryem-Khaye Seigel
Studies In Yiddish 19
- ‘Women and men have shared the stage in equal numbers practically since its inception... Moreover, participation of women extends behind the scenes, where they have also served as directors, impresarios, and creators. The topical, chronological, and geographic scope of the twelve essays in this pioneering collection is quite impressive. The theater personalities treated in this nicely illustrated volume include major stars alongside overlooked figures... Highly recommended for research libraries.’ — Zachary M. Baker, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews 4.3, January 2024, 38-39
Building Modern Jewish Culture: The Yiddish Kultur-Lige
Edited by Harriet L. Murav, Gennady Estraikh and Myroslav Shkandrij
Studies In Yiddish 20
Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature
Doriane Zerka
Transcript 26
Published November 2023
Worlds of Old Yiddish Literature
Edited by Simon Neuberg and Diana Matut
Studies In Yiddish 13
Published January 2024
Stefan George: The Homosexual Imaginary
Peter Morgan
Germanic Literatures 30
German Romanticism and Latin America: New Connections in World Literature
Edited by Jenny Haase and Joanna Neilly
Transcript 23