Andreas Ersson Library

By Erland Munch-Petersen

By Marquis de Sade

“An outstanding series of imaginatively weird and wonderful sexual adventures punctuated by means of philosophical and theological digression. Mlle. De Maupin, Lolita, Candy—all faded beside Juliette.”—Library magazine

By Kevin S. Kiernan

The tale of Beowulf and his hard-fought victory over the monster Grendel has captured the mind's eye of readers and listeners for a millennium. The heroic Anglo-Saxon tale survives to the area in a single eleventh-century manuscript that was once badly burned in 1731, and in eighteenth-century transcriptions of the manuscripts.
Kevin S. Kiernan, one of many world's preferable Beowulf students, has studied the manuscript broadly with the main updated tools, together with fiber-optic backlighting and laptop digitization. This quantity reprints Kiernan's previous research of the manuscript, within which he provided his novel conclusions in regards to the date of Beowulf. It additionally deals a brand new creation during which the writer describes the price of digital examine of Beowulf, and a brand new Appendix that lists all of the letters and elements of letters published through backlighting.
This very important quantity should be a must-read not just for the student of early English heritage and literature, yet for all those people who are attracted to sensible functions of the recent applied sciences.

By Sten Pultz Moslund (auth.)

By Laura Tosi, Shaul Bassi

Regardless of the transforming into serious relevance of Shakespeare's Venetian performs and a burgeoning bibliography on either "The service provider of Venice" and "Othello", few books have dealt largely with the connection among Shakespeare and Venice. getting down to provide new views to a conventional subject, this well timed assortment fills a niche within the literature, addressing the hot ancient, political and financial questions which were raised within the previous few years. The essays during this quantity ponder Venice a true in addition to symbolic panorama that should be explored in its a number of resonances, either in Shakespeare's historic context and within the later culture of reconfiguring essentially the most represented towns in Western tradition. Shylock and Othello are there to remind us of the darkish aspects of the parable of Venice, and of the inescapable undeniable fact that the problems raised within the Venetian performs are greatly topical; we're nonetheless haunted via those theatrical casualties of early sleek multiculturalism.

By Hartmann von Aue

Iwein, or The Knight with the Lion, is a unfastened heart excessive German variation of Chrétien de Troyes' previous French Arthurian romance, Yvain. Written c.1200 through a Swabian knight, Hartmann von Aue, Iwein charts the improvement in the direction of adulthood of a tender knight who falls into mistakes, neglecting his hard-won spouse by way of devoting himself excessively to chivalric targets. This parallel-text version, providing the 1st English translation, relies on one of many earliest whole manuscripts, Giessen, college Library, no. ninety seven (Iwein B), relationship from the second one zone of the 13th century. It includes a huge variety of traces, relatively within the later phases of the poem, which aren't found in the opposite early manuscript, A (Heidelberg, cpg 397). those exhibit a distinct curiosity within the woman's part of the tale, increasing a passage fascinated with embroidery and weaving, and including a wedding for the maidservant Lunet, whose crafty brings concerning the reconciliation among Iwein and her mistress, Laudine. The authorship of those passages is doubtful, yet they're Hartmann's personal revision of his textual content. the quantity is finished with an advent, notes and bibliography.

By MacDonald Harris

As within the better of Jules Verne or Albert Sanchez Pinol, The Balloonist is a gripping and surreal yarn, chilling and comedian through flip, that brilliantly reinvents the Arctic event.

It is July 1897, on the northernmost achieve of the inhabited international. A Swedish scientist, an American journalist, and a tender, French-speaking adventurer climb right into a wicker gondola suspended underneath a tremendous, red-and-white balloon. The ropes are minimize, the balloon rises, and the 3 start their voyage: an try to develop into the 1st humans to set foot at the North Pole, and go back, borne at the wind. Philip Pullman says in his foreword: "Once I open any of MacDonald Harris’s novels i locate it virtually very unlikely to not flip and skim on, so pleasant is the feeling of a pointy intelligence at paintings. within the Balloonist , we see all of his characteristics at their best."

By Jesse Alemßn, Shelley Streeby

Mid-nineteenth-century American literature teems with the power and pleasure attribute of the nation's period of growth. It additionally unearths the serious anxiousness and clash of a rustic suffering from what it's going to suggest, socially and culturally, to include formerly held Spanish territories. Empire and the Literature of Sensation is a serious anthology of a few of the preferred and sensational writings released ahead of the Civil struggle. it's a selection of transvestite adventures, forbidden love, type clash, and terrifying encounters with racial ''others.''

Most of the money owed, even though generally allotted in nineteenth-century newspapers, pamphlets, or dime shop novels, have lengthy been out of print. Reprinted right here for the 1st time are novelettes by way of superstars of the inexpensive fiction undefined, Ned Buntline and George Lippard. additionally integrated are decisions from one of many first dime novels in addition to the narratives of Leonora Siddons and Sophia Delaplain, either who declare in their autobiographical pamphlets to have cross-dressed as males and participated within the Texas uprising and Cuban filibustering.

Originally written for leisure and greatly renowned of their day, those sensational thrillers exhibit for modern day audiences how the rhetoric of empire used to be circulated for mass intake and the way imperialism generated family and cultural instability in the course of the interval of the American literary renaissance.

By Margaret Atwood

Ever in view that her engagement, the strangest factor has been occurring to Marian McAlpin: she can't consume. First meat. Then eggs, greens, cake, pumpkin seeds--everything! Worse but, she has the loopy feeling that she's being eaten.

Marian should think fed on with ardour, yet she fairly simply feels...consumed.

A fantastic and strong paintings wealthy in irony and metaphor, The suitable for eating girl is an unforgettable masterpiece by means of a real grasp of up to date literary fiction.

By Jacqueline M. Labbe

Why are there so few "happily ever afters" within the Romantic-period verse romance? Why accomplish that many poets make the most of the romance and its components to such devastating impact? Why is gender so frequently the 1st sufferer? The Romantic Paradox investigates the superiority and loss of life within the poetic romances of the Della Cruscans, Coleridge, Keats, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Landon, and Byron, and posits that knowing the romance and its violent traits is essential to figuring out Romanticism itself.