The Review of English Studies

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Kathryn Powell

Meditating on Men and Monsters: A Reconsideration of the Thematic Unity of the Beowulf Manuscript
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 1-15; doi:10.1093/res/hgl019 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hugh Gazzard

‘Many a herdsman more disposde to morne’: Peele, Campion, and the Portugal Expedition of 1589
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 16-42; doi:10.1093/res/hgl020 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Charles Cathcart

John Marston, The Malcontent, and the King's Men
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 43-63; doi:10.1093/res/hgl021 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C. R. A. Gribben

The Literary Cultures of the Scottish Reformation
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 64-82; doi:10.1093/res/hgl022 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ben Clarke

Orwell and Englishness
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 83-105; doi:10.1093/res/hgl023 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews

Melanie B. Bigold

BETTY A. SCHELLENBERG. The Professionalization of Women Writers in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Pp. x+250. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. £48.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 106-107; doi:10.1093/res/hgl002 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Heather O'Donoghue

RORY McTURK. Chaucer and the Norse and Celtic Worlds. Pp. x+218. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. £45.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 108-109; doi:10.1093/res/hgl003 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Guy Cuthbertson

TONY BROWN(ed.). Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays, Volume 10. Pp. iv+200. Aberystwyth: New Welsh Review, 2005. Paper, £12·95.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 109-111; doi:10.1093/res/hgl004 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Guy Cuthbertson

Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden. Edited by STEPHEN BURT, with HANNAH BROOKS-MOTL. Pp. xvi+178. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. £22·50.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 111-112; doi:10.1093/res/hgl005 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Fuller

JOHN HAFFENDEN. William Empson, volume i: Among the Mandarins. Pp. xxii+696. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. £30.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 112-114; doi:10.1093/res/hgl006 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brian Gasser

ROBERT D. AGUIRRE. Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture. Pp. xxx+198. Minneapolis: Minnesota Press, 2005. Paper, $19.95.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 114-116; doi:10.1093/res/hgl007 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kathryn Sutherland

D. A. MILLER. Jane Austen, or The Secret of Style. Pp. 108. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. £12·95. • PETER KNOX-SHAW. Jane Austen and the Enlightenment. Pp. xii+276. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. £45. • COLIN WINBORN. The Literary Economy of Jane Austen and George Crabbe. Pp. viii+202 (The Nineteenth Century). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. £40.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 116-120; doi:10.1093/res/hgl008 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lionel Kelly

WALTER KALAIDJIAN (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism. Pp. xx+334 (Cambridge Companions to Literature). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Paper, £16·99.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 120-122; doi:10.1093/res/hgl009 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sos Eltis

RICHARD FOULKES. Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage: Theatricals in a Quiet Life. Pp. xii+224 (The Nineteenth Century). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. £45.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 122-124; doi:10.1093/res/hgl010 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew Reynolds

A. A. MARKLEY. Stateliest Measures: Tennyson and the Literature of Greece and Rome. Pp. x+238. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. £35.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 124-125; doi:10.1093/res/hgl011 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Emma Smith

COLIN BUTLER. The Practical Shakespeare: The Plays in Practice and on the Page. Pp. x+206. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. 29.50.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 125-127; doi:10.1093/res/hgl012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

H. L. Spencer

J. J. ANDERSON. Language and Imagination in the Gawain-Poems. Pp. viii+248 (Manchester Medieval Literature). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005. Paper, £15·99.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 127-128; doi:10.1093/res/hgl013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

H. L. Spencer

ROBERT ALLEN ROUSE. The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance. Pp. viii+180 (Studies in Medieval Romance 3). Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005. £45.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 128-130; doi:10.1093/res/hgl014 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Hollindale

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, volume ii: De Profundis, ‘Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculis’. Edited by IAN SMALL. Pp. 346. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. £80. • The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, volume iii: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The 1890 and 1891 Texts. Edited by JOSEPH BRISTOW. Pp. lxxviii+466. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. £90.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 130-134; doi:10.1093/res/hgl015 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael H. Whitworth

HELEN GROTH. Victorian Photography and Literary Nostalgia. Pp. xii+244. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. £45.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 134-136; doi:10.1093/res/hgl016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hanneke Wilson

ANTONINA HARBUS and RUSSELL POOLE (edd.). Verbal Encounters: Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Studies for Roberta Frank. Pp. xii+298 (Toronto Old English Series 13). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. £48.
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 136-138; doi:10.1093/res/hgl017 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

List of Publications Received

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED • 1 January 2005 – 21 November 2005
Review of English Studies 2006 57: 139-147; doi:10.1093/res/hgl018 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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