New Books September 2021

A new academic year is upon us, and a whole host of new books have arrived at the English Faculty Library. We’ve cherry-picked a few of our fresh, shiny favourites to share with you all, but you can check out the full list over on Library Thing: https://www.librarything.com/catalog/EFLOxford/efl

 

Jessica Glueck (ed.). 2021. Wykehamist Pattern Poems 1573-1618.

This delightfully surprising book was anonymously donated to the English Faculty Library.  Within its pages are an assortment of ‘Frivolous Boyishe Grammer Schole Trickes’ (p.1) – a collection of pattern poems written in Latin by pupils, teachers, and alumni of Winchester College. Rendered in their original image with transcriptions, translations, and commentary, these charming and challenging poems shed a light on a scholarly past.

 

Caroline Magennis. 2021. Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles: Intimacies, Affects, Pleasures.

Magennis uses feminist theory to explore how Northern Irish Writers have engaged with intimacy, the body, and pleasure in the period since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and even since the Covid-19 pandemic. This book features pieces from Lucy Caldwell, Jan Carson, and Bernie McGill to present a contemporary and timely examination of Northern Irish identity as well as community.

 

 

Teresa Zackodnik (ed.). 2021. African American Literature in Transition: 1850-1865.

This book is just one of five African American Literature in Transition books to line the shelves of the English Faculty Library this month. The chapters in this book explore a diversity of topics, from Semi-Citizenship, to Black Romanticism, to Antislavery Activist Networks. As Zackonik says, “we read not for event but for multiple conditions productive of and for Black literature.” (p.6)

 

 

 

Matthew Sussman. 2021. Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction: Form, Ethics, and the Novel.

Aristotle first described the concept of stylistic virtue. Sussman’s book attempts to unearth this largely forgotten element of rhetoric and aesthetics from its Victorian heyday, before delving into an analysis of how stylistic virtue alters our understanding of Thackeray, Trollope, and Meredith.

 

 

 

Andrew Murphy. 2021. Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing. Second Edition.

We’ve got a treat here for the publishing, printing, and editing fans. The second edition of this gorgeous, hard-back bibliographical book is revised and expanded. New additions include a carefully-mapped history of digital editions of Shakespeare, fresh material in every chapter, and an expanded chronological appendix. Murphy’s entertaining narrative draws out the enlightening social, cultural, and biographical editing of Shakespeare’s work.

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