Spellbound, George Gissing A selection of George Gissing's shorter fiction, the first to span the artist's career. Critically established texts, original illustrations and new scholarly essays, available
for the first time in one publication, edited by Dr. Christine Huguet.
Volume 1: The Storyteller Volume 2: A Twenty-first Century Reappraisal
George Gissing was one of the
major English novelists of the late nineteenth century.
It was, however, as a
short-story writer that he entered into the world of literature and his
instinct for suggestive compression soon secured his place as an accomplished
fin-de-siècle practitioner in the field of short fiction. Chronologically
planned from 1877 to the early 1900s, the present book focuses on eleven specimens,
many of them vintage Gissing, of the artist’s 115 stories. It will recommend
itself to all lovers of late Victorian culture and short-story practices. Critical appraisal by M. D. Allen, Christine
DeVine, David Grylls, Constance Harsh, Christine Huguet, Diana Maltz, Markus
Neacey, Bouwe Postmus, Barbara Rawlinson, Robert Selig and John Sloan.
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Creating Academic Communities - Funeral monuments to professors at Oxford, Leiden and Tübingen, 1580-1700This volume explores 17th-century funerary monuments to professors in three North-European Protestant university towns. It deals with the historical, religious and political background of each of the universities, and subsequently analyses the monuments under thematic headings. The extensive illustrated catalogue and accompanying CD-ROM with full-colour images discusses each of the memorials separately, listing all documented memorials erected to professors in these towns, together with an inter-disciplinary approach to their interpretation, biographical data and documentary sources. more info (pdf)
"... I must award you a further accolade for producing such useful innovatory techniques for art-historical analysis!" - Dr. Paul Cockerham, Vice President of The Monumental Brass Society, about the CD-ROM accompanying Creating Academic Communities
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The Wellsian: Selected Essays on H.G. Wells
“A collection of
essays cherry-picked from the Journal of the H.G. Wells Society”
- the Times Literary Supplement.
In 'The Wellsian: Selected Essays on H.G. Wells', John S. Partington
brings together a selection of the finest articles published in The
Wellsian, the journal of the H.G. Wells Society, from 1981 to the
present. The volume covers a wide breadth of Wells's work and thought,
with essays from Lyman Tower Sargent on utopianism, Patrick Parrinder
on The Time Machine, David Lake's textual analysis of the scientific
romances, Michael Sherborne on Wells and Plato, and many others. With
The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The War of the Worlds,
The Sea Lady, The Food of the Gods and The Door in the Wall all
receiving detailed attention, this volume promises to be a worthy
memorial to the first twenty-five years of The Wellsian. As well as
celebrating Wells's greatest literary achievements, it explores the
philosophical basis of his thought and, through several comparative
studies, takes an interdisciplinary approach to his aesthetic concerns.
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“The
Wellsian book is splendid – very well edited and produced.” - Professor
Patrick Parrinder
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The Definitive Bibliography of Herbert George Wells
This extensive bibliography, the first in the Equilibris Definitive Bibliographies Series, comprises some 10.000 entries, painstakingly researched and collected over a period of over 35 years, by renowned H.G. Wells expert Professor David C. Smith. The author is a long-standing Editor of the USA Wells Journal the Undying Fire, and has also published the selected letters of H.G. Wells in five volumes. The Equilibris Definitive Bibliographies Series will be published in traditional book form, as well as in fully searchable digital formats.
100 Years of World-Class Automotive Technology: Dutch contributions to global automotive engineeringThis extensive study, conducted by the ECMD, the European Centre for Mobility Documentation, will originally be published in Dutch. A translated book in English is under consideration. Initiated by the Automotive Technology Centre and the ECMD - both part of Eindhoven University - and the KIVI/NIRIA (the Dutch engineers society) this full-colour publication promises to become a valuable source for automotive history.
Sculpted Portraits of Rulers and Royalty c.1500-1900Proceedings of the conference at the London Wallace Collection. The conference aimed to foster discussion on one of the less-studied aspects of the production and consumption of portraits of the high and mighty : that of the sculpted portrait. European court life, from the Renaissance to the 19th century, has given many sculptors the opportunity to model the likenesses of the powerful. Published for the Wallace Collection and the Low Countries Sculpture Society. Edited by Dr. Charles Avery and Léon Lock.
The Victorian Critic: Literary Critics and Criticism in 19th Century EnglandA critical and commented selection of key figures and their works explored from the current perspectives.
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Picture: author Stefanie Knöll at the launch of her book Creating Academic Communities - Funeral monuments to professors at Oxford, Leiden and Tübingen, 1580-1700
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