MHRA News

The July 2008 issue of The Modern Language Review is now available both in print and online. This issue includes articles on: The Shakespeare Canon; Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year; George Eliot and Racism; James Joyce and Pierre Reverdy’s Theory of the Image; Subversive Ornaments in the Novels of Maupassant; Recent Autobiographical Writing by Jorge Semprun; Millet’s La Vie sexuelle de Catherine M.; A Possible D’Annunzian Intertext for Il Gattopardo; Performativity in Buñuel; as well as more than 100 book reviews.

The full contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available online here, with links to the full text.

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The 2008 double issue of Yearbook of English Studies is now available both in print and online.

This is a themed issue on Tudor Literature.

The complete contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available here, with links to the full text online.

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The MHRA is delighted to announce a new book series entitled MHRA New Tudor Translations. The aim is to create a representative library of works translated into English during the early modern period for the use of scholars and students. The series will include both substantial single works and selections of texts from major authors, with the emphasis being on the works that were most familiar to early modern readers. The texts themselves will be newly edited in modernized spelling with substantial introductions, notes and glossaries.

The series aims to restore to view a major part of English Renaissance literature which has become relatively inaccessible and to present these texts as literary works in their own right. It will have a similar scope to that of the original Tudor Translations published early in the last century, and while the great majority of the works presented will be from the sixteenth century, like the original series it will not be rigidly bound by the end-date of 1603. There will, however, be a very different range of texts with new and substantial scholarly apparatus.

Further details are available here.

The MHRA is pleased to announce the publication of Vol. 11 in the Critical Texts series: an edition of English Translations, Paraphrases, and Emulations of the Poetry of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, prepared by Krzysztof Fordonski and Piotr Urbanski.

Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595-1640) was known in his lifetime as the Christian Horace. He was one of the most famous Neo-Latin poets of the Baroque, widely read, commented and translated throughout Europe. Sarbiewski was translated by a variety of poets ranging from Hills to such famous authors as Vaughan, Burns and Coleridge. This edition includes all known English translations of Sarbiewski’s poems. The texts are accompanied by an introduction presenting the biography and works of Sarbiewski, as well as a short critical analysis of the translations included in the volume.

Further Details

The second edition of the MHRA Style Guide is now available both in print and online.

The MHRA Style Guide, like the Style Book before it, has become a standard work of reference in the humanities and has been adopted by many authors, editors, and publishers. The current edition (April 2008) takes account of comments and suggestions made by users of its predecessor, the Style Guide of 2002, and the editors are grateful for these.

It has been updated, especially in order to take account of the widespread use of electronic means of text preparation, submission, and publication. Some sections have been revised or expanded for the sake of clarity and completeness, and new ones have been added; in this process, the previous Chapter 2 has been divided into a revised chapter on Spelling and Usage and a new Chapter 3 on Names. Material that seemed redundant has been removed.

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The spring issue of Portuguese Studies is now available both in print and online, and includes articles on: The Cult of Henry the Crusader in Lisbon; Music and the Teatro de Cordel; Pessoa and Beckett; and Concrete Poetry in Brazil

The full contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available online here, with links to the full text.

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Volume 68 of The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies is now published.

The April 2008 issue of The Modern Language Review is now available both in print and online. This issue includes articles on: Lucanic Irony in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine; Byron and Henry Gally Knight; The Ethics of Anonymity; Mallarmé and Robert Duncan; Languages in Conflict in Toulouse; Metatextual Imitation in the Burgundian Cligès; Erik Satie’s Poetry; Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi; Translating Coral Bracho; Strauss’s Das Leben Jesu and Nietzsche’s Zarathustra; Döblin’s November 1918; as well as more than 110 book reviews.

The full contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available online here, with links to the full text.

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The April 2008 issue of The Slavonic and East European Review is now published in print and online, with scholarly contributions on Slavonic language, literature, and history.

This is a special issue, entitled ‘The Relaunch of the Soviet Project, 1945-64′.

The contents list and abstracts of articles are freely available here, with links to the full text online.

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The Annual General Meeting of the Modern Humanities Research Association will take place at 5 p.m. on Friday 9 May 2008 in the Council Room at 1 Carlton House Terrace, London. All members welcome. A map is available here.

The Association is delighted to welcome Professor John Woodhouse as President of the Association for 2008.

The Presidential Address, ‘Venice’s European Diaspora: The Case of James Leoni (1685-1746)’, will be given immediately after the AGM and is open to the public.

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