Autumn / Winter 2014

Literature and theatreA CONCORDANCE TO THE RHYMES OFTHE FAERIE QUEENEBIBLICAL WOMEN IN EARLY MODERNLITERARY CULTURE, 1550–1700Edited by Richard Danson Brown and J.B. LethbridgeEdited by Victoria Brownlee and Laura GallagherThis book is the first ever concordance tothe rhymes of Spenser’s epic. It gives thereader unparalleled access to the formalnuts and bolts of this massive poem: therhymes which he used to structure itsintricate stanzas.As well as the main concordance to therhymes, the volume features a wealth ofancillary materials, which will be of valueto both professional Spenserians andstudents, including distribution lists andan alphabetical listing of all the words inThe Faerie Queene. The volume breaksnew ground by including two studies by Richard Danson Brownand J.B. Lethbridge, so that the reader is given provocative analysesalongside the raw data about Spenser as a rhymer. Brown considersthe reception of rhyme, theoretical models and how Spenser’srhymes may be read for meaning. Lethbridge in contrast discussesthe formulaic and rhetorical character of the rhymes.At once pervasive and marginal,appealing and repellent, exemplary andatypical, the women of the Bible provokean assortment of readings across earlymodern literature. Biblical women inearly modern literary culture, 1550 –1700draws attention to the complex ways inwhich biblical women’s narratives couldbe reimagined for a variety of rhetoricaland religious purposes.J.B. Lethbridge is Lecturer in English at Tübingen UniversityConsidering a confessionally diverserange of writers, working across a varietyof genres, this volume reveals howwomen from the Old and New Testaments exhibit an ideologicalpower that frequently exceeds, both in scope and substance,their associated scriptural records. The essays explore how theBible’s women are fluidly negotiated and diversely redeployed tooffer (conflicting) comment on issues including female authority,speech and sexuality, and in discussions of doctrine, confessionalpolitics, exploration and grief. As it explores the rich ideologicalcurrency of the Bible’s women in early modern culture, this volumedemonstrates that the Bible’s women are persistently difficult toevade.‘A book that no one who is seriously interested in poetry canafford to ignore.’Victoria Brownlee is Irish Research Council Fellow in the School ofEnglish, Drama and Film at University College, DublinAndrew Hadfield, University of SussexLaura Gallagher is a Postdoctoral Teaching Assistant in the School ofEnglish at Queen’s University, Belfast, and a Learning DevelopmentAssistant at the university’s Learning Development ServiceRichard Danson Brown is Senior Lecturer in English at The OpenUniversityThe Manchester SpenserSeptember 2014 216x138mm 240pphb 978-0-7190-8888-9 65.0010February 2015 216x138mm 240pphb 978-0-7190-9155-1 70.00manchester university press, oxford road, manchester M1 9PL website: www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uktel: 44(0)161 275 2310 fax: 44 (0)161 275 7711 email: mup@manchester.ac.uk

Literature and theatrePAP WITH AN HATCHETMOTHER BOMBIEAn annotated, modern-spelling editionJohn LylyJohn LylyEdited by Leah ScraggEdited by Leah ScraggNEW IN PAPERBACKThe Martin Marprelate tracts werecirculated illegally in 1588 and 1589.The seven anonymous tracts, inveighingagainst the episcopacy of the AnglicanChurch, have an historical and literarysignificance. Little has been written onJohn Lyly’s Pap with an Hatchet, however,and in Leah Scragg’s edition, based onthe first edition of 1589, his response isgiven appropriate regard.The text is a short one, but the density oftopical allusion and the colloquialism ofthe language necessitates considerableannotation and commentary. A large proportion of this edition isdevoted to a lengthy introduction exploring the literary and culturalcontexts of the work, Lyly’s stance towards the project, and thelight cast by the pamphlet on the depth of the writer’s engagementwith the contemporary theatre.Mother Bombie is unique among Lyly’scomedies in its urban setting and focusupon middle, and lower-class concerns.The play turns on the tissue ofmisconceptions surrounding the effortsof four fathers to secure sociallyadvantageous marriages for theirheirs, and the determination of theiryoung servants to exploit their masters’misguided aspirations for their ownadvantage. A theatrical success in its ownday, the play is of particular interest totwenty-first-century criticism for its focusupon those situated on the margins of the social group, notablyMother Bombie herself, thought by some to be a witch, and thetwo simpletons whose marital prospects lie at the heart of theaction.The edition will contribute to the growing understanding ofboth the diversity of Lyly’s work, and its centrality to a range ofinterconnected literary and social issues.This fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of the play, nowavailable in paperback, is re-edited from the earliest witnesses;the quartos of 1594 and 1598, and incorporates the songs firstpublished by Blount in his collected edition of Lyly’s works in 1632Leah Scragg is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Arts,Languages and Cultures at the University of ManchesterLeah Scragg is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Arts,Histories and Cultures, University of ManchesterRevels Plays Companion LibraryFebruary 2015 216x138mm 160pphb 978-0-7190-8738-7 70.002 b&w illustrationsRevels PlaysSeptember 2014 216x138mm 240pppb 978-0-7190-9688-4 16.991 b&w illustrationAlso available MUP JOURNALCahiers Élisabéthains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance StudiesAlso available MUP JOURNALCahiers Élisabéthains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance Studiesmanchester university press, oxford road, manchester M1 9PL website: www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uktel: 44(0)161 275 2310 fax: 44 (0)161 275 7711 email: mup@manchester.ac.uk11

Literature and theatreWOMEN ON THE RENAISSANCE STAGEAnna of Denmark and female masquing in theStuart court, 1590–1619SHAKESPEARE, ITALY ANDINTERTEXTUALITYMichele MarrapodiNEW IN PAPERBACKClare McManusBACK IN PRINTThisworkreassesseswomen’srelationship to performance in earlymodern England. It investigates thestaging conditions, practices andgendering of Anna of Denmark’sperformances, bringing current criticaltheorisations of race, class, gender, spaceand performance to bear on the femalecourtly body in dance, staging, scenery,costume and make-up in the Jacobeancourt.The study establishes a tradition ofearlyseventeenth-centuryfemaleperformance which constitutes a trajectory for the emergence ofthe professional Restoration female actor. Anna of Denmark, wifeof James VI of Scotland/James I, was a great patron of Ben Jonson,among others.Clare McManus is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Theatreat the University of RoehamptonNovember 2014 216x138mm 276pppb 978-0-7190-6250-6 15.9925 b&w halftonesAlso available MUP JOURNALCahiers Élisabéthains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance StudiesNewly available in paperback, thiscollection of essays, written by distinguishedinternational scholars, focuses onthe structural influence of Italianliterature, culture and society at large onShakespeare’s dramatic canon. Exploringrecent methodological trends comingfrom Anglo-American new historicismand cultural materialism and innovativeanalyses of intertextuality, the volume’sfour thematic sections deal with ‘Theoryand practice’, ‘Culture and tradition’,‘Text and ideology’ and ‘Stage andspectacle’.In their own views and critical perspectives, the individual chaptersthrow fresh light on the dramatist’s pliable technique of dramaticconstruction and break new ground in the field of influence studiesand intertextuality as a whole.A rich bibliography of secondary literature and a detailed indexround off the volume.Michele Marrapodi is Full Professor of English Literature at theUniversity of PalermoSeptember 2014 234x156mm 288pppb 978-0-7190-6667-2 24.997 b&w illustrationsAlso available MUP JOURNALCahiers Élisabéthains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance Studies12manchester university press, oxford road, manchester M1 9PL website: www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uktel: 44(0)161 275 2310 fax: 44 (0)161 275 7711 email: mup@manchester.ac.uk

Literature and theatreSOLIMAN AND PERSEDAIMAGINING WOMEN READERS, 1789–1820Thomas KydWell-regulated mindsEdited by Lukas ErneRichard De RitterSoliman and Perseda, written c. 1588 andfirst published in 1592 or 1593, is a lateElizabethan romantic tragedy by ThomasKyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy. Itdramatises the triangular relationship ofthe Turkish emperor Soliman, his captivePerseda and her beloved Erastus, and thefortunes of the comic servant Piston andthe braggart knight Basilisco, againstthe fictionalised backdrop of the Turkishinvasion of Rhodes in the early sixteenthcentury.The introduction to this facsimile editioncontains the fullest analysis of the text to date. It also providesan account of the play’s editorial history, a detailed analysis ofits original printing, and lists of all erroneous readings in the firstquarto, together with significant differences between the first andsecond quartos.This edition provides the best access we have to an important playby one of Shakespeare’s leading early contemporaries.Imagining women readers reassessesthe cultural significance of women’sreading in the period 1789–1820.From the turbulent years following theFrench Revolution to the fiction of JaneAusten, this book charts the rise of a selfregulating reader, who possesses bothmoral and cultural authority. Rather thanan unproductive leisure activity, for thewriters discussed in this study the act ofreading is crucial to imagining forms offemale participation in national life. Thebook thus offers a unique perspectiveon the relationship between reading,education and the construction of femininity, shedding new lighton the work of some of the most celebrated women writers of theperiod.It will appeal to students and scholars interested in the history andrepresentation of reading, and in women’s writing of this periodmore generally.Lukas Erne is Professor of English at the University of GenevaRichard De Ritter is a Lecturer in the School of English at theUniversity of LeedsThe Malone SocietyNovember 2014 236x194mm 102pphb 978-0-7190-9585-6 45.00November 2014 216x138mm 224pphb 978-0-7190-9033-2 70.00Also available MUP JOURNALCahiers Élisabéthains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance StudiesAlso available MUP JOURNALBulletin of the John Rylands LibraryLiterature & Historymanchester university press, oxford road, manchester M1 9PL website: www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uktel: 44(0)161 275 2310 fax: 44 (0)161 275 7711 email: mup@manchester.ac.uk13

Literature and theatreGOTHIC WRITING 1750–1820THAT DEVIL’S TRICKA genealogyRobert MilesHypnotism and the Victorian popularimaginationBACK IN PRINTWilliam HughesNow available again in paperback, thisprovocative study by Robert Miles usesthe tools of modern literary theory andcriticism to analyse this very distinctivebody of texts. Miles introduces thereader to contexts of Gothic in theeighteenth century including its historicaldevelopment and its placement withinthe period’s concerns with discourse andgender.By using texts ranging from sensationalnovels such as The Monk and Themysteries of Udolpho, poetic variationson Gothic by Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, to satirical works onthe theme by Jane Austen, Miles presents an intriguing overviewof Gothic literature. By drawing extensively on the ideas of MichelFoucault to establish a genealogy he brings Gothic writing in fromthe margins of ‘popular fiction’, resituating it at the centre ofdebate about Romanticism.Robert Miles is Professor of English at the University of Victoria,CanadaNovember 2014 216x138mm 244pppb 978-0-7190-6009-0 19.99Also available MUP JOURNALGothic Studies14That devil’s trick is the first study ofnineteenth-century hypnotism basedprimarily on the popular – ratherthan medical – appreciation of thesubject. Drawing on the reports ofmesmerists, hypnotists, quack doctorsand serious physicians printed in popularnewspapers from the early years of thenineteenth century to the Victorian finde siècle, the book provides an insightinto how continental mesmerism wasfirst understood in Britain, how anumber of distinctively British varieties ofmesmerism developed, and how thesewere continually debated in medical, moral and legal terms.Highly relevant to the study of the many authors – Charles Dickens,George Eliot, Bram Stoker and Conan Doyle among them – whosefiction was informed by the imagery of mesmerism, That devil’strick will be an essential resource for anybody with an interest inthe popular and literary culture of the nineteenth century, includingliterary scholars, medical historians and the general reader.William Hughes is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa UniversityJanuary 2015 216x138mm 256pphb 978-0-7190-7483-7 70.00Also available MUP JOURNALGothic StudiesNineteenth Century Theatre and Filmmanchester university press, oxford road, manchester M1 9PL website: www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uktel: 44(0)161 275 2310 fax: 44 (0)161 275 7711 email: mup@manchester.ac.uk

Literature and theatreCONTEMPORARY OLSONCHINUA ACHEBEEdited by David HerdJago MorrisonAs poet, critic, theorist and teacher,Charles Olson extended the possibilitiesof modern writing. From Call Me Ishmael,his pioneering study of HermanMelville, to his epic poetic project TheMaximus Poems, Olson probed therelation between language, space andcommunity. Writing in the aftermathof the Second World War, he providedradical resources for the re-imagining ofplace and politics, resources for collectivethought and creative practice we are stilllearning how to use.Re-situating Olson’s work in relation both to his own moment andto current concerns, the essays assembled in Contemporary Olsonprovide a major reassessment of his place in postwar poetry andculture. Through a series of contextualising chapters, discussionsof individual poems and reflections on Olson’s legacy by leadinginternational writers and critics, the book presents a poet who stillinforms contemporary poetry, whose thought and compositionalinnovations continue to provoke.Remote as some of his fascinations must now seem, Olson is shownnonetheless to offer a poetry and poetics that speaks clearly to ourown fraught historical moment. Contemporary Olson opens thismajor writer to new readings and new readers.David Herd is Professor of Modern Literature at the University ofKentChinua Achebe has long been regarded asAfrica’s foremost writer. In this major newstudy, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensivereassessment of his work as an author,broadcaster, editor and political thinker.With new, historically contextualisedreadings of all of his major works, this isthe first study to view Achebe’s oeuvre inits entirety, from Things Fall Apart and theearly novels, through the revolutionaryAhiara Declaration – previously attributedto Emeka Ojukwu – to the revealing finalworks The Education of a British EducatedChild and There Was a Country. Contestingprevious interpretations which align Achebe too easily with this orthat nationalist programme, the book reveals Achebe as a much moretroubled figure than critics have habitually assumed.Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book will be essential reading forscholars and students of Achebe’s work in the twenty-first century.Jago Morrison is Senior Lecturer in English at Brunel UniversityContemporary World WritersOctober 2014 198x129mm 272pphb 978-0-7190-8436-2 70.00Also available MUP JOURNALJames Baldwin ReviewFebruary 2015 234x156mm 272pphb 978-0-7190-8971-8 70.007 b&w illustrationsmanchester university press, oxford road, manchester M1 9PL website: www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uktel: 44(0)161 275 2310 fax: 44 (0)161 275 7711 email: mup@manchester.ac.uk15

Film and mediaSCOTTISH CINEMAJACQUES DEMYTexts and contextsDarren WaldronChristopher MeirOver the last three decades, Scottishcinema has seen an unprecedentednumber of international successes. Filmsranging from Local Hero to The Last Kingof Scotland have not only raised theprofile of film-making north of Hadrian’sWall, but have also raised a number ofquestions about the place of cinemaoriginating from a small, historicallymarginalised, as yet stateless nation,within national and transnational filmcultures.By providing detailed case studies ofsome of the biggest films of contemporary Scottish cinema,including Local Hero, Mrs Brown, Morvern Callar and others, thisvolume will help readers to understand the key works of the periodas well as the industrial, critical and cultural contexts surroundingtheir creation and reception. As the field of Scottish film studieshas also grown and developed during this period, this volumewill introduce readers to the debates sparked by the key worksdiscussed in the book.Christopher Meir is Lecturer in Film at the University of West Indies,St AugustineNovember 2014 216x138mm 224pphb 978-0-7190-8635-9 70.009 b&w illustrationsAlso available MUP JOURNALFilm StudiesSaccharine for some, poignant forothers, Jacques Demy’s ‘enchanted’world is familiar to generations ofFrench audiences accustomed towatching Christmas repeats of hisfairytale Peau d’âne (1970) or seeingCatherine Deneuve and FrançoiseDorléac prance and pirouette in LesDemoiselles de Rochefort (1966). Demyachieved international recognition withLes Parapluies de Cherbourg (1963),which was awarded the Palme d’Or atCannes. Beneath the apparently sugarycoating of his films lie more philosophicalreflections on some of the most pressing issues that preoccupyWestern societies, including affect, subjectivity, self/other relationsand free will.This lucid and wide-ranging book is the first full-length study ofDemy’s cinema in English. Key aspects are examined, such as hisassociations with the New Wave, his unique approach to musicals,his adaptations of fairytales, his representations of gender andsexuality and his legacy as an iconic director for generations ofaudiences and filmmakers.Darren Waldron is Senior Lecturer in French Screen Studies at theUniversity of ManchesterFrench Film DirectorsNovember 2014 198x129mm 224pphb 978-0-7190-8739-4 70.0014 b&w illustrationsAlso available MUP JOURNALFilm Studies16manchester university press, oxford road, manchester M1 9PL website: www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uktel: 44(0)161 275 2310 fax: 44 (0)161 275 7711 email: mup@manchester.ac.uk

Film and mediaJACQUES RIVETTECATHERINE BREILLATDouglas Morrey and Alison SmithDouglas KeeseyNEW IN PAPERBACKNEW IN PAPERBACKJacques Rivette is perhaps the best-keptsecret of French cinema. A founding figurein the New Wave, and at the centre of theCahiers du cinéma team, he developed intoone of the most unusual and adventurousFrench directors of the last sixty years,yet his work remains little known incomparison with his contemporaries, andthis study is the first in English to look atthe full span of his career. Starting withhis decisively

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