The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland: Manuscript Production and Transmission, 1560–1625. Sebastiaan Verweij. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xviii + 304 pp. $35.
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DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2019.357
Abstract: the (repeated) raising of the royal standard in 1642 may have been highly performative, and Beushausen’s reading is attentive to how reports of the raising repeatedly describe how “moved” the crowd was; the valence of… read more here.
Keywords: oxford; modern scotland; literary culture; scotland manuscript ... See more keywords
Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture, 1861-1881. By Lynn Ellen Patyk. Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. xii, 349 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $69.95, hard bound.
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2018.349
Abstract: The Covetous Knight, Gogol ’́s Dead Souls and Dostoevskii’s “Mr Prokharchin.” It discusses the broader history of the depiction of the miser from antiquity to modern times, taking in Dante, Hieronymous Bosch, Jean de La… read more here.
Keywords: revolutionary terrorism; literary culture; written blood; terrorism russian ... See more keywords