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Austrian cultural production after 1945 has been enduringly haunted by unsavoury truths. The fraught relationship of post-war Austria with its own history and the collective denial of responsibility for National Socialist crimes informed a cultural discourse that was polarized between apologetic or extremely judgmental viewpoints (Fliedl 1998). Towards the turn of the new millennium, however, research began to discern alternatives in the stead...

The October 2021 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.

This book traces the history of the controversy over the education of women in the second half of the eighteenth century, and in particular the influence of Rousseau's Émile. "It includes extracts from the writings of men and women, both English and French, and introduces a variety of opinions, putting them in context and tracing the complex way¿ in which writers responded to Rousseau and also to each other's published views. It contains thirt...

The Yearbook of English Studies for 2021 examines contemporary poetry from Britain and Ireland. Edited by Samuel Rogers, the volume contains fourteen essays exploring a range of poetry from 1980 and the present. Poetry continues to be a dynamic cultural force, though the past four decades have seen recurrent debates over whether its readership is shrinking or swelling. Certainly, the digital age has reshaped our relationship with media, alteri...

The July 2021 issue of Slavonic & East European Review. The Slavonic and East European Review, the journal of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, is published quarterly by the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA). Issues are numbered serially, the four annual issues constituting a volume.

The January 2022 issue of Modern Language ReviewVolume 117 Part 1 January 2022ContentsTransnational American Gothic from Gilman to CésaireExemplarity in Contemporary Grief MemoirsFood and Affect in the Twentieth-Century Poison NarrativePrimo Levi, Dante, and Language in AuschwitzBook reviews

The April 2021 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.

Mathilde Blind's contributions to the New Woman and Decadent movements in the 1880s and 1890s placed her at the centre of fin-de-siècle literary culture. She rose to prominence in the early 1870s, both as an expert on and proponent of the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as one of the few women writers published in the Dark Blue (1871-73), an influential journal that featured the work of Britain's leading Pre-Raphaelites and aesthetes. By th...

Modern Language Review Volume 116 Part 4 October 2021 Contents Humboldt, Rugendas, and Aira Menasse's Die Hauptstadt and Dimitrakaki's Aeroplast Reading Edward Thomas from a Daoist, Ecocritical Perspective Gadda's La cognizione del dolore Book reviews

This is a bilingual French-English edition of correspondence relating to the theme of early French slavery. Mongin's letters are an invaluable source of data about the early plantation environment. Bréban's reflects the development of the more mature plantation society of the eighteenth century. He gives new perspectives on some of the themes discussed by Mongin, such as the reasons for the enslavement of Africans, and the question of what wou...

Volume 116 Part 3 July 2021 Milena Jesenská in Jorge Semprún and Antonio Muñoz Molina Arthur's Parrot in Le Conte du papegau Eugène Green's La Sapienza L'amica geniale and the Bildungsroman Benjamin Stein's Das Alphabet des Rabbi Löw Book reviews

The October 2020 issue of Modern Language Review

Introduction 1Rosa Maria Martelo and Paulo de MedeirosEssaysOf Literature as a Composition of the Disparate and its PoliticalImplications 1Silvina Rodrigues LopesSome Portuguese Poetry from the Past Fifty Years: A Readingthrough Images 1Rosa Maria MarteloThe Chant of Image: Fiama and Indifference 1Joana Matos FriasA Selfless Proliferating Language 1Manuel PortelaBlood Evocations: Subversion, Resistance, and Afterimage inAna Luísa Amaral's Ágor...

Volume 116 Part 2 April 2021 Contents Italo Calvino's Anonymous Prefaces to Shakespeare Soul & Body in Literary-Historical Context La Servitude volontaire in the 1580s Parisian Flânerie and Jewish Cosmopolitanism in Modiano Mario Cipriani in Accattone The Melancholic Complexion of Melibea Architecture in Spanish Baroque Literature Carmen Martín Gaite's Ritmo lento Book reviews

The January 2021 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.

Entre finales del siglo xvi y principios del xvii, Lorenzo de Zamora empezó a publicar la Monarquía Mística de la Yglesia, una obra ambiciosa en la que utilizaba recursos extraídos de las letras humanas para la exégesis bíblica y la predicación. En el preámbulo a su Primera Parte apareció la Apología por las letras humanas, un texto en el que defiende su propio estilo, rico en filigrana retórica y en citas que aderezan el contenido, recursos t...

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...

This edition presents extracts from the medieval Welsh encyclopedia Delw y Byd. A medieval Welsh translation of the first book of the Latin encyclopedia known as Imago Mundi, written by Honorius Augustodunensis in the first quarter of the twelfth century, this text is a fine example of the ties between the intellectual world of Europe and Wales in the late-twelfth/early-thirteenth centuries, when the text was translated, ties that brought acro...

This edition presents extracts from the medieval Welsh encyclopedia Delw y Byd. A medieval Welsh translation of the first book of the Latin encyclopedia known as Imago Mundi, written by Honorius Augustodunensis in the first quarter of the twelfth century, this text is a fine example of the ties between the intellectual world of Europe and Wales in the late-twelfth/early-thirteenth centuries, when the text was translated, ties that brought acro...

Plutarch was one of the most popular classical authors in Renaissance England. These volumes present nine Tudor and Stuart translations from his Essays and Lives with a General Introduction locating these works in the context of Plutarch's wider influence in early modern England. They offer selections from two of the classics of English Renaissance translation, North's Lives (1579) and Holland's Morals (1603): the essays 'On Reading the Poets'...