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Dickens's nonfictional, theatrical, and poetical writings; an annotated bibliography, 1820-2000.
Hanna provides an annotated bibliography of sources relating to the nonfiction, poetry, and theatrical works of Charles Dickens written between 1820 and 2000 and excluding most of his letters (but including pertinent ones) and introductions to his books. Each category — nonfiction, works edited or with prefaces or contributions by Dickens, personal writings and speeches, plays, and poetry — has a separate numbering system and entries are repeated if relevant to more than one section. Within each, manuscripts, letters, editions, dramatizations, adaptations, dissertations, criticism, and illustrations relating to the specific works are listed and described. Works not published in English, unauthorized editions published during his lifetime, and editions without critical commentary have been omitted. In addition to the main index, an index of writings is included. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
The eighteenth-century current bibliography: ECCB, n.s. v.29 — for 2003.
Presenting works published in 2003, this volume contains a comprehensive bibliography for topics in 18th-century studies, including printing and bibliographical studies; historical, social, and economic studies; fine arts; language and literature; and philosophy, science, and religion. Separate sections are provided for foreign literature and languages, British literature, and New World literature and languages. The bibliography for each major topic is organized by author's last name. Most entries are without annotation, some list reviews of the book, some are followed by a brief description, and some are followed by a full review. The reviewer's name is usually indicated; their affiliation is not. Name index only. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Emblematica; an interdisciplinary journal for emblem studies; v.15.
This volume is comprised of the first scholarly fruits of the Seventh International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies 2005, held at the U. of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In addition to traditional emblematic studies and extensions to objects of material culture, "Emblems in the Twenty-First Century: Materials and Media" focused on the growing importance of emblem digitization as a tool in research on the symbolic meanings of early texts, images, and engraved objects. In one of ten book reviews, Russell (U. of Pittsburgh) reviews Alison Saunders' The Seventeenth-Century French Emblem: A Study in Diversity. Illustrations include images in Renaissance art and books, plus emblematic devices in American pulp fiction covers discussed from a postmodern perspective. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Studies in the Jesuit emblem.
Far more than mere symbols, emblems communicate complex political, social, cultural, economic and spiritual concepts with combinations of text and image. Dimler offers here several decades' work on what the emblems say about his fellow Jesuits and the contexts in which they worked. His 17 essays consider first the theories behind the images, including Jesuit reactions to humanism through imagery, Jesuit emblem theory, the work of Friedrich Spee and Hieronymus Nadel in early theory development, Jakob Masen's imago figurata and Andrea Alciato's emblematum liber, emblems in rhetoric, the influence of the pia desideria, the theme of the egg, and commentary on several events and texts related to Jesuit emblems. The collection concludes with essays on the theme of the bee and the taxonomy of Jesuit emblems in the eighteenth century. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
