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Study of three North American women novelists combining the standpoints of gender studies and narratology.

A study of the hardening of British public opinion against Bonaparte and an examination of the events that caused it.

The two earliest Goldsmiths' record books reveal details of working practices, financial accounts, apprentices, civic events such as pageants, misdeeds broght before the wardens, and much else besides.

Studies of the customs and beliefs of barbarian peoples who migrated westwards and settled in Western Europe from the close of the Roman empire to the ninth century.

Donald Mitchell's second book on the life and work of Gustav Mahler examines the fruitful years of the First to the Fourth Symphonies, as well as the earlier song cycles from the Gesellen lieder to the magical Ruckert songs.

Presents research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking, and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. This work includes topics ranging from examinations of the cultures of power and peacemaking to analyses of patterns of religious patronage, ethnic stereotyping, law and theology, and more.

The first English work dealing in detail with the life and musical influences of the Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975).Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975) was one of the most important Italian composers of the twentieth century. As well as writing several operas, he composed a large number of works in which the human voice, whether in solo or in chorus, plays an important role. Dallapiccola also set texts by writers as diverse as James Joyce, Salvatore Quasimodo, Antonio Machado, Goethe, and Heine. This book is the first in English to deal with Dallapiccola as a whole, from thefirst, hesitant vocal compositions of his student years up to the works of his last decade, in which Italian lyricism is combined with great formal rigor. The author suggests that Dallapiccola should be understood not only as aninfluential figure in the post-war developments of Italian music, but also as one who renewed and revitalized the older traditions of Italian music. Raymond Fearn is Professor of Music at Keele University.

The first study to propose a unifying logic underlying the many and varied representations of the vampire in literature and culture.

Against a background of crises experienced in both the First and Second World Wars, M. Doughty assesses the performance of British bureaucracy in planning for the organisation and control of merchant shipping in wartime.

'Much-needed modern critical edition. 'REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES

New essays re-evaluating Weimar cinema from a broadened, up-to-date perspective.

The six essays collected in this volume are a selection from a number of papers which were given at a one-day colloquium on 'Art, Literature and the Spanish Civil War' which was held in Westfield College on 18 July 1986, preciselyfifty years to the day after Franco's military coup in the Canary Islands, which was destined to have such a decisive effect on the course of Spanish history. Though this date subsequently became a Francoist celebration - the so-called 'Dia del Alzamiento' (Day of the Uprising) - the papers collected here do not demonstrate a Francoist bias. The overall approach is intertextual and interdisciplinary, thereby stressing the international nature of the artistic response to the war. For the benefit of the English reader, all foreign quotations are followed by an English translation.

Fascinating insights into medieval life. THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Renaissance military memoirs studied for what they reveal of contemporary attitudes towards war, selfhood and identity.

The second study of medievalism in Europe shows how the influence of the middle ages has been manifested itself in various forms, throughout the modern age, in Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden - and Brazil.

Eleven essays bring Arthurian studies into the 21st century, including film and black popular culture.

Essays employing close scrutiny of texts to clarify gender issues in feminist literary criticism.

A survey of the landed endowment of Glastonbury Abbey before 1066, with a history of its estates.

A study of the impact of urbanisation on organised religion in Croydon in the Victorian and Edwardian era.

An examination of the difficulties in fundamentally differentiating humans from all other animals.

Du Boulay broadens the traditional, literary, view of Langland in this extended study of the poet and his world, the first to be written by a historian this century

Biographical studies of the two Dukes of Ormonde illuminate aspects of the operation of political power in seventeenth-century Ireland, and, on a wider European stage, the predicaments facing the nobility.

Ducal charters illuminate politics, external relations, and the conduct of government, and also Breton society and institutions.

An exploration of the personal and professional networks of political power during the reign of Louis XIV, focusing on the influence of his minister Louis Phelypeaux de Pontchartrain.

New and insightful interpretations of the controversial stories of Heinrich von Kleist.

An exploration of the landscape of Anglo-Saxon England, particularly through the prism of place-names and what they can reveal.

This is the most useful survey of medieval Franciscan history available. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

Modern English translations of a wide selection of troubadour poems.

The principal developments in Spanish American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century.

An exploration of the cultural-political complexity of the medieval Peninsula.