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Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was a key advocate for modernism across the arts in America in the first half of the twentieth century. As a critic of music, dance, and literature, as novelist, as photographer, as patron of the arts, and as saloniste, he exerted an influence on the development and reception of popular and avant-garde forms of modernism - from jazz, blues, and early cinema to Gertrude Stein and Igor Stravinsky. Though currently le...

July 2018 issue of Slavonic & East European Review

The Fortunate Foundlings was one of Eliza Haywood's more successful novels, though it remains one of her lesser known works. Ittells the story of a brother and sister left as babies in the care of a gentleman. Like many another eighteenth-century foundling, the siblings leave their guardian behind and make their own way in the world: Horatio as a soldier and Louisa as a lady's companion, finding love and adventure in the battlefields and court...

The October 2018 issue of Modern Language Review

Arthur Machen has finally been recognized as a key contributor to the glittering age of British Decadence. Best known for the novella The Great God Pan and for his formative influence on weird fiction, in fact much of Machen's writing profoundly challenges literary and cultural convention. From the demonic horror of "The Recluse of Bayswater" to the plush occultism of The Hill of Dreams and the prose poems of Ornaments in Jade, this selection ...

Arthur Machen has finally been recognized as a key contributor to the glittering age of British Decadence. Best known for the novella The Great God Pan and for his formative influence on weird fiction, in fact much of Machen's writing profoundly challenges literary and cultural convention. From the demonic horror of "The Recluse of Bayswater" to the plush occultism of The Hill of Dreamsand the prose poems of Ornaments in Jade, this selection o...

Written in 1802-03, The Natural Daughter and The Bride of Messina show Goethe and Schiller writing in a neo-classical manner far removed from the Sturm und Drang style of their early works. The plays reflect their authors' reaction to the troubled post-Revolutionary years of their composition - a counter-Revolutionary one, both in an aesthetic and at least implicitly political sense. Their eponymous heroines embody hopes of restored familial h...

Issue 1 of Portuguese Studies for 2018. Portugal, Forty-Four Years after the Revolution

April 2018 issue of Slavonic & East European Review

The July 2018 issue of Modern Language Review

To mark its twenty-fifth issue, Austrian Studies examines practices and representations of celebration from 1750 to the present in the Habsburg Empire, the Austrian Republics and former areas of the Habsburg Empire. Festivities, festivals, anniversary celebrations and the ways in which they are organized and experienced, shed unique light on the culture that supports - or is supported by - such events. Celebrations constitute conscious, if tem...

January 2018 issue of Slavonic & East European Review. A special issue on biography in modern Russian culture.

The April 2018 issue of Modern Language Review

Breaking with Tradition introduces short prose by nearly fifty young Belarusian writers in six thematic chapters, of which three are on topics of universal interest: Love, sex and loneliness, the world and its inhabitants: humans, fish, animals and birds, and religion, superstition, philosophy and fantasy. The other three have particular relevance to Belarus: Leadership, Miensk and the provinces, and squalor, writing about the Belarusian langu...

Issue 2 of Portuguese Studies for 2017

The January 2018 issue of Modern Language Review

Au début de la Révolution, Michel-Jean Sedaine a 70 ans et a fait représenter une trentaine d'œuvres de théâtre. On sait cependant peu de choses sur les dernières années de sa carrière, au cours desquelles le librettiste, membre de deux Académies, a également participé à la Société des auteurs dramatiques, mais a dû se défendre contre des accusations de modérantisme, voire de royalisme. Après une introduction qui replace sa carrière dans le co...

October 2017 issue of Slavonic & East European Review

The Yearbook of English Studies for 2017 is dedicated to new interpretations of Walter Scott. Edited by Susan Oliver, the volume brings together fifteen essays by scholars from Australia, Europe and the Americas. These contributions represent vital and diverse directions in Scott studies, two hundred years after the celebrated 'author of Waverley' followed his early career as an antiquarian and poet with best-selling novels, verse dramas and a...

Famously praised by John Keats for speaking 'loud and bold', Chapman's Homer brought Greek poetry and civilization to life for centuries of readers. Many have praised its rough energy and creativity, the crashing power of the verses, its grim depiction of life and death in war. The companion to Gordon Kendal's edition of Chapman's Odyssey, this edition of his Iliad features a newly edited version of the 1611 printing (including all the transla...