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Plutarch was one of the most popular classical authors of the English renaissance. These volumes present selected translations from the Moralia and the Parallel Lives and put them in the context of Plutarch's wider influence in Tudor and Stuart England. They include selections from two established classics of English renaissance translation, North's Lives (1579) and Holland's Morals (1603), but also print a number of less well-known translatio...

Lauded after his death as 'champion of the English Commonwealth', but also derided as a 'most servile wit, and mercenary pen', the poet, dramatist and historian Thomas May (c.1595-1650) produced the first full translation into English of Lucan's Bellum Ciuile shortly before a ruinous civil war engulfed his own country. Lucan, whose epic had lamented the Roman Republic's doomed struggle to preserve liberty and inevitable enslavement to the Caes...

Plutarch was one of the most popular classical authors of the English renaissance. These volumes present selected translations from the Moralia and the Parallel Lives and put them in the context of Plutarch's wider influence in Tudor and Stuart England. They include selections from two established classics of English renaissance translation, North's Lives (1579) and Holland's Morals (1603), but also print a number of less well-known translatio...

Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-1896) made a critically significant contribution to the evolution of the modernist short story in Britain. His unexplained death in Paris at the age of 26 cut short a highly promising literary career. The striking realism of Crackanthorpe's first collection of short stories, Wreckage (1893), followed by the psychologically complex Sentimental Studies and posthumous Last Studies (1896), together with the prose poems o...

Volume 28 of Austrian Studies investigates literary imaginings and cultural constructions of the Habsburg Empire. Th e retrospective phenomenon referred to by Claudio Magris as the 'Habsburg myth' plays an inevitable role, but the Habsburg imaginary spans a far greater range. Existing studies often give the impression of a fragile, backward-looking utopia or else the merry apocalypse and overwrought 'Nervenkunst' of a predominantly male, Germa...

Plutarch was one of the most popular classical authors of the English renaissance. These volumes present selected translations from the Moralia and the Parallel Lives and put them in the context of Plutarch's wider influence in Tudor and Stuart England. They include selections from two established classics of English renaissance translation, North's Lives (1579) and Holland's Morals (1603), but also print a number of less well-known translatio...

Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-1896) made a critically significant contribution to the evolution of the modernist short story in Britain. His unexplained death in Paris at the age of 26 cut short a highly promising literary career. The striking realism of Crackanthorpe's first collection of short stories, Wreckage (1893), followed by the psychologically complex Sentimental Studies and posthumous Last Studies (1896), together with the prose poems o...

The October 2020 issue of Slavonic & East European Review.The Slavonic and East European Review, the journal of the UCL School of Slavonic and EastEuropean Studies, is published quarterly by the Modern Humanities Research Association(MHRA). Issues are numbered serially, the four annual issues constituting a volume.

The present special issue of Portuguese Studies has as its focus Portuguese poetry from the latter part of the twentieth century to our actual present. This poetry figures here in various ways, most directly with the section containing a brief anthology of texts from some of contemporary Portuguese poetry's most significant authors. And of course the collection of critical essays that engage with the various issues and problematics that have m...

Volume 116 Part 1 January 2021 Contents A Scotian Reading of the Man of Law's Tale and the Clerk's Tale Milton in his Letters Anne Dacier's Rhetoric Zola's Repetitions Ingmar Bergman and Giuseppe Pontiggia The Sources of Neruda's 'Ritual de mis piernas' Pepetela's O Tímido e as Mulheres Borders and Migration in Dorothee Elmiger and Olga Grjasnowa Book reviews

How might Republican France create the homme nouveau, or the ideal citizen, upon which the nascent republic placed its hopes? This is the question that Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) asks in this 1801 treatise on moral education, which has remained unedited until the present day. In this treatise, the polymath, known for his urban chronicles as well as his political engagement during the Revolution, tackles a question that pervades revolu...

This edition argues that Petrarch's text has been neglected by modern scholarship in favour of the translations of the Canzoniere, while it can be shown that the Triumphi enjoyed a much earlier and much more durable fame in Europe as well as in the British Isles, being translated at least twice in its entirety, with individual books and smaller sections being translated or adapted a number of times.Critical editions of the translations are acc...

This edition argues that Petrarch's text has been neglected by modern scholarship in favour of the translations of the Canzoniere, while it can be shown that the Triumphi enjoyed a much earlier and much more durable fame in Europe as well as in the British Isles, being translated at least twice in its entirety, with individual books and smaller sections being translated or adapted a number of times. Critical editions of the translations are ac...

Coronada y el toro (Coronada and the Bull) is a play written in 1974 by Francisco Morales Nieva (1924-2016), a prominent figure in the history of Spanish theatre. Even though the aesthetic quality of his drama competed with that of his contemporaries, many with whom he interacted (Ionesco, Genet, Brecht, Grotowski, etc.), Nieva's recognition was unduly delayed within Spain and, on the international scene, his name remains eclipsed by playwrigh...

The Yearbook of English Studies for 2020, edited by Paul Poplawski, is devoted to scholarly essays which take a fresh and probing look at the literary modernism of the 1920s and which, in many cases, also reflect critically on its afterlife through to our own time at the start of the 2020s. As this might suggest, one broad aim of the volume is to set the 1920s in dynamic dialogue with the nascent 2020s. Thus, on the one hand, the volume explor...

The July 2020 issue of Slavonic & East European Review

Issue 1 of Portuguese Studies for 2020

Medieval Welsh literature is rich in hagiographical lore and numerous Welsh versions of the Lives of saints are extant, recording the legends of both native and universal saints. Although the cult of St Ursula and the 11, 000 virgins is well known internationally, this is the first time that a scholarly edition of her Welsh legend has been published in its entirety.Hystoria Gweryddon yr Almaen was adapted into Welsh by Sir Huw Pennant and it s...

Medieval Welsh literature is rich in hagiographical lore and numerous Welsh versions of the Lives of saints are extant, recording the legends of both native and universal saints. Although the cult of St Ursula and the 11, 000 virgins is well known internationally, this is the first time that a scholarly edition of her Welsh legend has been published in its entirety.Hystoria Gweryddon yr Almaen was adapted into Welsh by Sir Huw Pennant and it s...

William Barker's translation of Xenophon's Cyropaedia is the first substantial translation from Greek directly to English in Tudor England. It presents to its English readers an extraordinarily important text for humanists across Europe: a semi-fictional biography of the ancient Persian emperor, Cyrus the Great, so generically rich that it became (in England as well as Europe) a popular authority and model in the very different fields of educa...