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Lawrence among the Women: Wavering Boundaries in Women's Literary Tradition
By Carol Siegel, Professor, English and American Studies
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Literature, Science, and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge
Ed. by Debbie Lee, associate professor, English, et al
From the publisher: This well-illustrated study shows how literary Romanticism arose partly in response to science's appropriation of explorers' encounters with foreign people and places and how it, in turn, changed the profile of science and exploration.
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The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1920-1928, Vol. 1
Ed. by Tim Hunt, former professor of English
From the publisher: The first three volumes of this five-volume work . . . present chronologically all of Jeffers’ published work from 1920 to 1963. Jeffers’ publishers sometimes adjusted his punctuation, presumably to bring the poems’ punctuation into accord with grammatical convention. The texts for this edition revert to Jeffers’ own preferences, insofar as the best methods of modern textual editing can reveal them.
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The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938, Vol. 2
Ed. by Tim Hunt, former professor of English
From the publisher: The present volume consists of poems published between 1920-1938, and includes some of his greatest and best known poems.
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The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1939-1962, Vol. 3
Ed by Tim Hunt, former professor of English
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The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, Prose, and Unpublished Writings, Vol. 4
Ed. by Tim Hunt, former professor of English
From the publisher: The present volume is in three parts. “Poetry 1903-1920” consists of some of the poems published while Jeffers was a college student, two early collections . . . , and a number of poems that were never published or were recently rediscovered. “Introductions, Forewords, and Miscellaneous Prose, 1920-1948” gathers all the major prose works. “Unpublished Poems and Fragments, 1910-1962” is mostly material that Jeffers never published, and apparently never tried to publish.
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The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Textual Evidence and Commentary, Vol. 5
Ed by Tim Hunt, Former Professor of English
From the publisher: The present volume is in four parts. An Introduction deals with the scope and principles of selection for the edition, including the decision to present the poems in chronological order, and gives a brief review of the textual evidence and commentary that form the bulk of this volume. The essay “Chronology” offers an overview of Jeffers’s career, the evidence for dating the poems, and the arguments drawn from that evidence.
The two parts that follow describe the rationale and evidence for establishing the texts of the poems for this edition, and present, in the form of extensive commentary and tabulations for each poem, the material (notes, preliminary workings, revisions, discarded passages, and variations in published versions) that both complicate and enrich the study of Jeffers’s poetry and prose. These commentaries also incorporate a number of additional selections from Jeffers’s previously unpublished writings.
There are three appendixes: tables of contents for original editions as well as some planned editions that were never published; poems (not included in this edition) that have appeared in posthumous compilations; and errata for the first four volumes. The book concludes with two indexes, of titles and of first lines.
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The New Anthology of American Poetry, vol. 1: Traditions and Revolutions, Beginnings to 1900
Ed. by Camille Roman, associate professor, English, et al
The book is the first of a three-volume set which, according to the publisher, “will be the most comprehensive and innovative anthology of American poetry ever published.”
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The New Anthology of American Poetry, vol. 2: Modernisms, 1900-1950
Ed. by Camille Roman, associate professor, English, et al
The second of a three-volume set, the book includes more than 600 poems by 65 American poets.
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The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
Ed. by Tim Hunt, former professor, English
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Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England
By Will Hamlin, Associate Professor, English
From the publisher: William Hamlin's Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England provides the first full-scale study of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient scepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean Britain. Thoroughly interdisciplinary in conception, the book ranges widely across early modern literary and philosophical terrain as it explores the many ways in which sceptical habits of mind intersected with dramatic tragedy in Shakespeare's day. Offering new archival evidence and a detailed taxonomy of scepticism's literary paradigms, Hamlin makes an extensive case for understanding scepticism as it was understood in early modern Europe—particularly as it displayed openness both to religious faith and to sustained rationalism, while being wedded to neither. Also furnishing original accounts of Florio's Montaigne and Bacon's persistent struggle with the challenges of epistemological doubt, Hamlin probes the deep connections between scepticism and tragedy in plays.
