English Literature
New Books from Oxford U Press, CD-ROMS,
Spring & Fall 1999

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The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
HUMPHREY CARPENTER and MARI PRICHARD

Dig into almost 2,000 entries in this bulging resource, where Anne of Green Gables rubs elbows with the Lord of the Rings, Mother Goose with Punch and Judy, Hans Christian Andersen with Christina Rossetti, and Maurice Sendak with Kate Greenaway. It's thorough -- and indispensable for teachers, librarians, and parents.
608 pp.; 134 b/w drawings, & halftones; 0-19-860228-6 1999 $24.95 (01) paper

The Dictionary of Cultural Theorists
Edited by ELLIS CASHMORE, Staffordshire University, and CHRIS ROJEK, Nottingham Trent University

This essential reference is a handy guide through the often confusing world of cultural theory. The entries provide accessible introductions to the key cultural theoriests of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, their key concepts and main arguments, their major works and formative influences. An extensive introduction sets the entries in the appropriate intellectual and historical contexts, and each entry provides links to other seminal figures in the study of culture, as well as a guide to further reading.
384 pp.; 0-340-64549-0 1999 $75.00 (06) cloth 1999 $19.95 (01) paper

A Concise Glossary of Cultural Theory
PETER BROOKER, Nene University College, Northhampton

This glossary of key terms is an indispensable guide to the changing meanings and issues in cultural studies and the broader study of culture. Written with the student and general reader in mind, the entries present cultural theory as an active and continuing set of debates that challenge received attitudes and redefine current thinking.
256 pp.; 0-340-69147-6 1999 $18.95 (01) paper 1998 $65.00 (06) cloth

Fascist Politics and Literary Culture
Vincenzo Cardarelli and his Contemporaries
CHARLES F. BURDETT

Fascist Politics and Literary Culture examines the avant-garde movements which flourished in Italy at the beginning of the twentieth century and which played an important role in the formation of a recognizable Fascist ideology. Many modernist writers and artists became committed supporters of Mussolini; among them, Vincenzo Cardarelli (1884-1959), whose work is examined here from it growth out of the Florentine avant-garde into an important proponent of Fascist culture.

• explores the work of an Italian writer who was deeply implicated in the history of Mussolinis movement
  

240 pp.; 0-19-815978-1 1999 $70.00 (06)

Criticism and Modernity
Aesthetics, Literature, and Nations in Europe and its Academies
THOMAS DOCHERTY, University of Kent

This book argues that from the late seventeenth century to the present national cultures have sought to regulate the democratic subject through the academic form of arguments about the proper relations of aesthetics to ethics and politics. It offers a radical reconsideration of the history of modernity, tracing the emergence of criticism as a socio-cultural practice across all the major European nations, and drawing on an extensive range of European literature and philosophy.
256 pp.; 0-19-818501-4 1999 $70.00 (06)

Decolonizing the Stage
Theatrical Syncretism and Post-Colonial Drama
CHRISTOPHER B. BALME, University of Mainz

Decolonizing the Stage is a major study devoted to post-colonial drama and theater. It examines the way dramatists and directors from various countries and societies have attempted to fuse the performance idioms of their indigenous traditions with the Western dramatic form. The study provides a theoretically sophisticated, cross-cultural comparative approach to a wide number of writers, regions, and theater movements, ranging from Maori, Aboriginal, and native American theater to Township theater in South Africa.

Explores the way dramatists and directors from a number of post-colonial societies have attempted to fuse the performance idioms of their indigenous traditions with the Western theatrical form

Wide geographical range, covering writers and theatre movements in a number of countries, including Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India

Theatre movements studied include Maori, Aboriginal, and native American theatre, and Township theatre in South Africa

Writers studied include Nobel Prize-winning authors such as Wole Soyinka, Derek Walcott, and Rabindranath Tagore, along with others such as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Jack Davis, Girish Karnad, and Tomson Highway
328 pp.; 16 b/w plates, 4 figures; 0-19-818444-1 1999 $85.00 (06)

Open Fields
Science in Cultural Encounter
GILLIAN BEER, Cambridge University

Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These challenging essays explore how ideas are transformed as they come under the stress of unforeseen readers. Using a wealth of material from diverse nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing, Beer tracks encounters between science, literature, and other forms of emotional experience. Her analysis discloses issues of change, gender, nation, and desire. A substantial group of the essays centers on Darwin; other essays look at Hardy, Helmholtz, Hopkins, Clerk Maxwell, and Woolf. The collection throws a different light on Victorian experience and the rise of modernism and engages with current controversies about the place of science in culture.

"Essential reading for anyone interested in the relation of literature and science."--Nineteenth-Century Literature

"From her sensitive discussions of Darwin's writing style,...to her more polemical interventions...Beer is careful to maintain a productive tension in her various deductions and claims. All in all, a fine and instructive collection."--Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

352 pp.; 6 halftones; 0-19-818635-5 1999 $27.50 (06) paper 1996 $45.00 (06) cloth

Birds and Other Plays
ARISTOPHANES
Translated with Introduction and Notes by STEPHEN HALLIWELL, University of St Andrews

This new verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies offers one of the world's great comic dramatists in a form which is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes' plays were produced for the festival theatre of classical Athens in the fifth century BC and remarkably encompass the whole gamut of humor, from brilliantly inventive fantasy to obscene vulgarity. There is a substantial general introduction to the author and introductory essays for each of the plays, as well as full explanatory notes and an index of names.

384 pp.; 0-19-282408-2 1999 $9.95 (03) paper 1997 $85.00 (06) cloth

Come Brother, Lie Down!
Multicultural Short Stories
MOIN ASHRAF

This is a collection of short stories which focus on conflicts between the cultural values of the West and the East through a South Asian expatriate's initial experiences in Canada.
116 pp.; 0-19-577977-0 1999 $12.95 (06) paper

The Oxford Book of Essays
Edited by JOHN GROSS

"Give[s] us, in abundance...those incandescent moments when wit, language and principle all coalesce."--William Howarth The Washington Post Book World

Now in a more elegant and readable format, this sweeping collection ranges from the early 1600s through the 1980s and includes 140 essays by 120 of the finest writers in the history of the English language. John Gross, former book critic for The New York Times, has collected classics and rare gems, representative samples and personal favorites, intimate essays and learned, serious reflections and hysterically funny satire, by both British and American writers. The authors Gross has gathered form a gallery of genius, all indispensable masters of rhetoric, from Samuel Butler to Samuel Johnson, from George Eliot to George Bernard Shaw, from John Dryden to Ben Franklin, from E.B. White to Joan Didion. Including book reviews and travel sketches, history lessons and meditations, reflections on art and on potato chips, these essays sample four centuries of eloquence and insight in a collection that is at once immensely enlightening, edifying, and entertaining.

"This is a collection that succeeds in demonstrating the marvelous variety of the genre."--The Christian Science Monitor

"A distinguished miscellany."--The Chicago Tribune

"Most of the essays are very good indeed....A seductive anthology."--The Economist
704 pp.; 0-19-288106-X 1999 $19.95 (03) paper

The Odyssey
HOMER
Retold by GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN and Illustrated by VICTOR G. AMBRUS

"A lively, brief retelling with colorful, action-filled pictures."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"This serious retelling of the Odyssey, illustrated with lush watercolors and line drawings, is a modern prose version of Homer's epic tale about Odysseus's return from Troy. A good introduction to Homer and an exciting story."--Reviews from Parent Council

"A real winner."--Children's Bookwatch

"McCaughrean's fine retelling of Odysseus' wanderings is a heroic tale in the truest sense of the It captures all the drama and bloodcurdling action of the original work while making the story accessible to young people in language that is still vigorous and expressive.... Illustrations by Victor Ambrus complement McCaughrean's style perfectly, their bold colors and lively portrayals displaying all the energy of the text."--Booklist

96 pp.; 23 color, & 28 b/w drawings; 8-1/2 x 11; 0-19-274183-7 1999 $12.95 (03) paper

Reconstructing Contexts
The Aims and Principles of Archaeo-Historicism
ROBERT D. HUME, Pennsylvania State University

This book attempts to justify and theorize old historicism, defining archaeo-historicism as a method by which scholars can reconstruct past context in order to apply it to the interpretation of works and events of that time. In this intriguing and rigorous analysis, Robert Hume identifies legitimate objects for reconstruction by which such interpretation may be pursued. The book offers a profusion of examples of good and bad historicist reconstruction and interpretation.

Intervenes boldly in contemporary debates over the place and use of theory in literary criticism and cultural history

Draws from a wide range of examples in English and American literatures, and in theatre and music theories

Defines a systematic methodology for reconstructing past contexts in order to use them as interpretative tools
256 pp.; 0-19-818632-0 1999 $55.00 (06)

Voices of Russian Literature
Interviews with Ten Contemporary Writers
Edited by SALLY LAIRD

Voices of Russian Literature presents in-depth interviews with ten of the most interesting figures writing in Russian today. These figures range from established authors such as Andrei Bitov and Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, who began their careers in the post-Stalinist thaw of the 1950s, to newcomers like Viktor Pelevin, hailed as one of the most original writers of the present era. This collection offers an insider's account of the fate of Russian literature over the past four decades.

• In-depth interviews with ten of the most interesting figures writing in Russian today
  

264 pp.; 10 b/w photos; 0-19-815181-0 1999 $45.00 (06)

Revision and Romantic Authorship
ZACHARY LEADER, Roehampton Institute, London, UK

The Romantic author is often portrayed as spontaneous, extemporizing, otherworldly, and alone. Zachary Leader argues that this influential fiction is much in need of revision. Romantic attitudes to authorship profess a preference for what comes naturally, with a concomitant devaluing of secondary processes, including second thoughts, yet many Romantic writers such as Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Coleridge, Clare, and Mary Shelley revised their works. Revision and Romantic Authorship looks at the revisionary practices of these writers, showing that second thoughts (including those of collaborators) in fact play a crucial role in "Romantic" composition.

"Revision and Romantic Authorship is an intelligent, articulate, and well-documented analysis of recent textual scholarship and current theories of editing as these fields impinge upon critical understanding of the English Romantics."--The Wordsworth Circle

"Valuable as a corrective to Romanticism's many mystifications of the creative process and provides a rich, informative account of how some famous works assumed their present canonical forms....Highly recommended."--Choice

368 pp.; 0-19-818634-7 1999 $24.95 (01) paper

Quincas Borba
JOAQUIM MACHADO DE ASSIS
Translated by GREGORY RABASSA, Introduction by DAVID T. HABERLY, and Afterword by CELSO FAVARETTO

"A wonderfull series."--The New York Times Book Review

Along with The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and Dom Casmurro, Quincas Borba is one of Machado de Assis' major works and indeed one of the major works of nineteenth century fiction. With his uncannily postmodern sensibility, his delicious wit, and his keen insight into the political and social complexities of the Brazilian Empire, Machado opens a fascinating world to English speaking readers.

When the mad philosopher Quincas Borba dies, he leaves to his friend Rubiao the entirety of his wealth and property, with a single stipulation: Rubiao must take care of Quincas Borba's dog, who is also named Quincas Borba, and who may indeed have assumed the soul of the dead philosopher. Flush with his newfound wealth, Rubiao heads for Rio de Janeiro and plunges headlong into a world where fantasy and reality become increasingly difficult to keep separate. Brilliantly translated by Gregory Rabassa, Quincas Borba is a masterful satire not only on life in Imperial Brazil but the human condition itself.

"In superbly funny books, [Machado] described the abnormalities of alienation, perversion, domination, cruelty and madness. He deconstructed empire with a thoroughness and an esthetic equilibrium that place him in a class by himself."--K. David Jackson, The New York Times Book Review

• "Machado de Assis wrote some of the most deliriously adventurous fiction of the last century."--Lingua Franca
  

320 pp.; 5-1/2 x 8-1/4; 0-19-510682-2 1999 $13.95 (03) paper 1998 $25.00 (02) cloth

Oxford Slavonic Papers
New Series Volume XXXI (1998)
Edited by C. M. MACROBERT, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, G. S. SMITH, Oxford University, and G. C. STONE, Hertford College, Oxford

The Oxford Slavonic Papers contain original contributions and documents relating to the languages, literatures, culture, and history of Russia and other Slavonic countries. Volume XXXI includes the reproduction of four black and white plates illustrating a selection of letters by D. S. Mirsky.

• Sales of previous volumes: V30, pub. 12/97, sales to date 429 (inc. 170 UK, 128 US); V29, pub. 01/97, sales to date 439 (inc. 168 UK, 142 US).
  

162 pp.; frontispiece; 0-19-815966-8 1999 $65.00 (06)

Katherine Mansfield: New Zealand Stories
Selected by VINCENT O'SULLIVAN, Victoria University of Wellington

Katherine Mansfield is New Zealand's most celebrated writer and one of the key figures in the history of the short story in English. This is the first time the stories set in her own country have been brought together and published in the order in which she wrote them. The Mansfield that emerges from this fresh perspective is both familiar and unexpected.

304 pp.; 0-19-558404-X 1999 $18.95 (06) paper

Narrative and Fantasy in the Post-War German Novel
A Study of Novels by Johnson, Frisch, Wolf, Becker, and Grass
CHLOE E. M. PAVER, Exeter University

This book investigates the fictions and fantasies invented by five narrators, examining the purpose which the fictions serve within each text and the means by which each author deliberately draws attention to them. All five authors are shown to be concerned with the kinds of stories which ordinary people tell about themselves and their past lives. This is the first major study of this distinctive trend in post-war German fiction.

240 pp.; 0-19-815965-X 1999 $70.00 (06)

The Oxford Book of Animal Stories
Edited by DENNIS PEPPER

Here is a gift for the whole family that will stir the emotions and fill the heart of all animal lovers--an anthology of animal stories that draws on tales from all over the world and across the centuries. There are myths and legends first told thousand of years ago by Inuit, Crow, Gaelic, Modoc, Norse, and other tribes that explain "How Raven Brought the Light" or how Coyote created the world and then gathered the animals to help him make man. Classic fables--such as "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby"--are mixed in with animal stories from 20th-century writers, such as Rudyard Kipling, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Liam O'Flaherty, and Philip José Farmer.

The book is illustrated with masterful black-and-white ink drawings. It is an impressive collection that explores our relationship with the rest of the animal world. What results is a compassionate and thoughtful volume that urges both children and adults to love and care for the creatures that share the Earth with us. An animal index helps readers find stories about their favorite animals, but most readers will begin with the first story and read straight through to the end of this fine addition to the "Oxford Books of" family.

"Could serve as read aloud material, pleasure reading, or even research."--Seattle Schools

"It's like a zoo-ful of delight."--Memphis Commercial Appeal

320 pp.; 73 illus.; 5-1/2 x 8-1/2; 0-19-278160-X 1999 $12.95 (03) paper 1994 $25.00 (01)
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The "Jewish Question" in German Literature, 1749-1939
Emancipation and its Discontents
RITCHIE ROBERTSON, St Johns College, Oxford

This book is an erudite literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria from the first pleas for Jewish emancipation during the Enlightenment to the eve of the Holocaust. Drawing on a wide range of literary texts, Ritchie Robertson offers a close examination of attempts to construct a Jewish identity suitable for an increasingly secular world. No other study by a single author deals with German-Jewish relations so comprehensively and over such a long period of literary history.

A stimulating and thoughtful approach to the Jewish Question in modern Germany and Austria

An erudite examination of the literary texts which shaped Jewish identities before the Holocaust

No other study by a single author deals with German-Jewish relations so comprehensively and over such a long period of literary history

544 pp.; 0-19-818631-2 1999 $99.00 (06)

Myths of the Nation
National Identity and Literary Representations
RUMINA SETHI

This book focuses on the construction of forms of historical consciousness in narratives, or schools of narrative. The study seeks to underscore what goes behind the writing of `true' and `authentic' histories by treating historical fiction as the literary dimension of nationalist ideology. It traces nationalism from its abstract underpinnings to its concrete manifestation in historical fiction which underwrites the Indian freedom struggle.

Traces the manifestation of nationalism in the Indian freedom struggle

Describes the materialization of contemporary identities in the writing of fiction

Addresses the role of literature in constructing cultural myths and models

Reasses the key literary figures and their role in the production of a nationalist ideology
232 pp.; 0-19-818339-9 1999 $70.00 (06)

Pilgrimage and Narrative in the French Renaissance
"The Undiscovered Country"
WES WILLIAMS, New College, Oxford

This is the first full-length study of the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. It makes new material available and also provides fresh perspectives on canonical writers such as Montaigne, Erasmus, Petrarch, Augustine, and Gregory of Nyssa. This wide-ranging and timely new work aims to question the ways in which recent theoretical and historical research in the area has determined the differences between fictional worlds and the real.

• The first full-length study of the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture
  
• Combines a critical study of genre and subjectivity with a nuanced investigation into the politics of literature, experience, and popular culture
  

336 pp.; 2 halftones; 0-19-815940-4 1999 $80.00 (06)

FALL 1999

The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories
Edited by DENNIS PEPPER

Following in the tracks of the bestselling The Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories and The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings, this is another thrilling collection of stories guaranteed to enthrall both children and adults. The 26 tales are drawn primarily from the early twentieth century, when the ghost story tradition was at its prime, but the book also includes contributions from contemporary authors who develop and extend the genre. Short stories by the likes of Shamus Frazer and Shirley Jackson are complemented with original original contributions from such authors as Francis Beckett and Dennis Hamley, specially commissioned for this edition.

"Captivating stories... The writing is consistently good.... The collection is appropriate for a wide range of YA readers with a taste for terror."--Booklist

224 pp.; b&w illus.; 8 x 10-1/2; 0-19-278154-5 1999 $22.95 (01) jacketed hardback

The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings
Edited by DENNIS PEPPER

This is a collection of 35 stories where the main feature is the ending. Sometimes it's an unpleasant or a nasty end, sometimes there is an unexpected twist, but usually the ending comes as a complete surprise to the people in the story.

You'll meet sinister landladies, deadly coffins, poisonous hats, evil statuettes, murderous monks, and real lions. And you'll find answers to such questions as: what does it feel like to be a ghost? What is living at the bottom of the well? And what should you do if you meet the terrifying Gorgo?

The stories are written by well-known writers such as Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, E. Nesbit, T.H. White, John Christopher, and many more. They will thrill, delight, amuse, frighten, and surprise you. But watch out for the end--it could be nasty!

"Revels in the sinister, mysterious, gross, and creepy. The 34 stories by such authors as Roald Dahl, E. Nesbit, and Ray Bradbury promise--or threaten--to leave readers on edge."--Publishers Weekly

"A dark brew of horror, ghost, crime, and science fiction stories by authors who generally address both older children and adults.... What really happens at the end of the stories is generally left for the readers to decide. But, as the editor says, 'Don't expect to sleep easy.'"--The New York Times Book Review

"[A] fine collection of chilling and cerebral thrillers... a variety of well-crafted, thought-provoking pieces from around the world. These haunting, goosebump-producing scenarios showcase the talents of familiar young adult and adult writers...From the subtle to the ironic to the terrifying, the stories in this quality collection prove that the classic macabre effectively transcends time, plce, and season."--Booklist

"Featuring endings that are sometimes gruesome, sometimes wry, and sometimes thoughtful, Pepper's compilation of tales won't disappoint even the most avid readers of short stories or mysteries. The selections are suspenseful, scary, and surprising... Finely crafted stories. Great for sharing on Halloween or around a campfire."--School Library Journal

"Young adults will appreciate this array of weird stories with unexpected twists and surprises for endings. From evil statues to deadly coffins, each story holds a horrid surprise and very different plots to excite the imagination."--Children's Bookwatch

224 pp.; b&w illus.; 0-19-278158-8 November 1999 $12.95 (03) Tentative paper

The Oxford Book of Christmas Stories
Edited by DENNIS PEPPER

When your family gets together at Christmastime, this book will prove to be the most treasured gift, bringing together children and parents, young and old. All the great stories of the holidays, along with some wonderful surprises, are waiting to be read aloud around the tree. This superb treasury of 30 seasonal tales, 10 of which were specially commissioned for this collection, brings together all the traditional Christmas characters and customs that children of all ages know and love--Grandfather Frost, Mr. Pickwick, the Snowman, carol-singing, and the birth of Jesus. Some of the stories--by authors such as Charles Dickens, Shirley Jackson, and Sue Townsend--will be familiar to young readers and their parents. Others--by modern writers including Robert Swindells and Philippa Pearche--will quickly become newly-discovered favorites. The selection presents a wide-ranging view of Christmas and its celebrations.

"This fresh collection will appeal to a variety of age groups... (A) fine collection of examples of the storytelling art."--School Library Journal

"An excellent anthology of both old and new...This book will prove a constant joy to children and all the family at Christmas."--Library Materials Guide

224 pp.; 21 color drawings, & 27 b/w drawings; 6-1/2 x 9-1/4; 0-19-278161-8 1988 $12.95 (03)
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The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations
Edited by PETER KEMP

A delightful collection of 4,000 quotations from the world's greatest writers

Here is a delightful and instructive compendium of the most memorable utterances of the world's most quotable writers. The Oxford Book of Literary Quotations covers all aspects of the literary life, from the modest wish for an attentive audience ("The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole LIFE to reading my works," James Joyce) to appreciative remarks about their fellow writers ("Gertrude Stein and me are just like brothers," Ernest Hemingway), and much, much more.

Celebrating over 3,000 years of writing, the dictionary's 4,000 quotations are arranged thematically, and chronologically by author within each topic. Full keyword and author indexes ensure that a favorite quotation or author can be located quickly. From Drink and Drugs to Writer's Block, from Love to Literary Theory, from Admiration and Praise to Rivalry and Rejection, The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations brings us the wittiest, most profound, most surprising, and most memorable words of the world's greatest writers on all aspects of their lives and work.

"Fills a gap in reference literature. "--Library Journal

"Here [is] material for use as well as for entertainment and enlightenment. "-- The Sunday Times (London)

512 pp.; 0-19-280090-6 2000 $15.95 (03) paper 1998 $40.00 (01) cloth

My First Oxford Book of Stories
GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN
Illustrated by ROBINA GREEN

Here is the perfect book to introduce a child to the magical world of the fairy tale for the first time. Perennial favorites--such as "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids," and "The Gingerbread Man"--are retold by award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean. There is plenty of fun and humor in these new retellings, specifically designed for this very young age group, yet the author never loses sight of the traditional shape and feel of the original classics. The illustrations by Robina Green are a delight--finely detailed and handsomely colored, they recreate the imaginary world of the fairy tale with all its magical power.

[excerpt] "'Drat,' said the Wolf and went away.

He went to the shop and bought a stick of chalk and ate it. It made his voice not rough and tough, but soft and smooth, and back he went to Goat Cottage.

He knocked on the door; rat-tat.

'Who's there?'

The wolf put his paws on the window-sill and bleated, 'Children, children, open the door. It's your own little mother and I've brought seven presents, one for each of you. Open the door, do.'"

(from "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids")

96 pp.; color illus.; 0-19-278115-4 May 2000 $19.95 (03) Tentative

The Bible as Literature
Fourth Edition
JOHN B. GABEL, CHARLES B. WHEELER, both at Ohio State University, and ANTHONY D. YORK, University of Cincinnati

This comprehensive account of the background and nature of biblical writing adopts a literary/historical perspective. It is based on modern scholarship, reflects consensus views, and avoids religious bias. This fourth edition has been enhanced by the addition of two new chapters, "Judaism in the Intertestamental Period" and "The Hellenistic Background of the New Testament."

384 pp.; 1 line illus; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-512853-2 December 1999 $27.95 (04) Tentative
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The Flight to Italy
Diary and Selected Letters
JOHAN WOLFGANG GOETHE
Edited and Translated with an introduction by T. J. REED

The original record of Goethe's travels in Italy--never before translated into English

This is the authentic day-to-day record of the first eight weeks of freedom as Germany's greatest poet heads for the Italy he has been yearning to see since childhood and finds himself in a new world of warmth and light. Leaving behind the difficulties of a decade in Weimar, the burden of administration, a difficult love-affair, and the frustration of not having time to work on his literary projects, he discovers himself again as a sensuous being and an artist. Goethe's fresh and spontaneous notes, sometimes dashed down at crowded tables in primitive Italian inns, bring together art and nature, Antiquity and the Renaissance, aesthetics and science, observations of climate, rocks, plants and the Italian people, in an unpremeditated mixture through which the poet's mature vision of the natural and human world can be seen taking shape. Never before translated into English, this diary brings us close to a great European writer at a turning-point of his life.
208 pp.; 0-19-283886-5 1999 $13.95 (03) paper

Blood Thirst
100 Years of Vampire Fiction
Edited with an introduction by LEONARD WOLF

"A bedtime book with a bite to it."--Kirkus Reviews

In Blood Thirst: One Hundred Years of Vampire Fiction, Leonard Wolf gathers thirty tales in which vampires of all varieties make their ghastly presence felt. From Lafcadio Hearn, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, Edith Wharton, August Derleth, and Ray Bradbury to such contemporary masters as Anne Rice, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, John Cheever, and Woody Allen, and in settings as diverse as rural New England and outer space, this collection offers readers a blood-curling compendium of the best vampire fiction since the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Organized into six categories--The Classic Adventure Tale, The Psychic Vampire, The Science Fiction Vampire, The Non-Human Vampire, The Comic Vampire, and The Heroic Vampire--the collection illustrates how the vampire's ability to draw into itself such a richness of symbolic meanings may account for the enduring appeal of the literature written about it. Here, then, is the definitive collection for aficionados and novices alike to sink their teeth into.

"Wolf is precisely the person to edit a definitive vampire anthology. He gives Oxford something to be proud of..."--Booklist

"An intriguing introduction to the vampire subgenre."--Boston Herald

"A satisfyingly creepy overview of literary bloodsuckers."--Toronto Star

384 pp.; 5-5/16 x 8; 0-19-513250-5 1999 $16.95 (03) paper 1997 $25.00 (02) cloth

Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine
A Casebook
Edited by HERTHA D. SWEET WONG, University of California, Berkeley

Louise Erdrich's first novel, Love Medicine, came out in 1984 to instant and international acclaim. A short sotry cycle narrated by a variety of different characters, the book chronicles the intertwined histories of Chippewa and mixed-blood families in North Dakota over half a century, laying bare the the ordeals and joys of twentieth-century Native American life and evoking the continued relevance of homeland, humor, and storytelling to indigenous survival.

256 pp.; 5-1/2 x 8-1/4; 0-19-512721-8 1999 $35.00 (06) cloth 1999 $14.95 (01) paper

Encyclopedia of Frontier Literature
MARY ELLEN SNODGRASS

A comprehensive new survey of the literary traditions and distinctly American character of this genre, from the time of Columbus through the twentieth century

With roots going back to Europe's discovery of the New World, frontier literature chronicles no less than the settling of America. Now a timely reference work presents this literature in all of its diversity, allowing readers to experience the myriad of creative responses evoked by the promise of the new frontier.

The Encyclopedia of Frontier Literature surveys 400 years of North American frontier literature, presenting dominant themes, biographies, literary history and analysis, genres, writers, titles, and characters as a method of defining and exemplifying the vast trove of literature about the continents exploration and settlement. From novels, short stories, and poetry to theater, oratory, outdoor dramas, songs, biographies, diaries, journals, and logbooks, frontier literature is characterized by its rich expression of human experience. In the 94 A-Z entries in this volume, readers will find coverage of dozens of authors and hundreds of works as well as eyewitness accounts by ordinary people, from the action-packed autobiography of former slave James Beckwourth, the novels of Edna Ferber and Mari Sandoz, and the speeches of Kiowa chief Satanta to Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail and Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove. The Encyclopedia also includes helpful chronologies, lists of major works and authors, cross-references beneath each entry, primary sources, filmographies, and a bibliography offering additional commentary.

A perusal of the Encyclopedia of Frontier Literature offers the researcher, reader, writer, and teacher a compelling reason to sample several points of view and to contemplate the romance that still clings to the Old West. Taken as a whole, frontier literature is as rich, varied, and satisfying as any branch of written and spoken art.

"[Snodgrass] opens windows of understanding into the enduring theme of the frontier in American cultural, political, and literary life."--Rettig on Reference

"A good place to begin research."--Booklist

560 pp.; 36 halftones, & line illus; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-513318-8 November 1999 $19.95 (03) Tentative paper

Anna Karenina
LEO TOLSTOY
Translated by LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE
With an introduction by MALCOLM BRADBURY

Beautifully produced original format World's Classics novel introduced by Malcolm Bradbury

Many believe Anna Karenina to be Widely the greatest novel ever written. The impossible and destructive triangle of Anna, her husband Karenin, and her lover Vronsky, is set against the marriage of Levin and Kitty, illuminating the most important questions which beset humanity. This edition uses Louise and Aylmer Maude's classic translation - still unsurpassed - and is printed here with a new introduction and detailed annotation.

1024 pp.; 0-19-210035-1 1999 $18.00 (02)

Women's Writing on the First World War
Edited by AGNÈS CARDINAL, DOROTHY GOLDMAN, and JUDITH HATTAWAY

Writers featured include Radclyffe Hall, Sylvia Pankhurst, Maud Gonne, Rebecca West, May Sinclair, Olive Schreiner, Colette, Vera Brittain, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Mansfield, HD, and Virginia Woolf

Until now the impact of The First World War upon women writers has been less visible than that of their male counterparts. This anthology brings together women's writing about the War from the period 1914 to 1930. Letters, diary entries, and essays offer an interesting counterpoint to the novels and short stories through which women sought to encompass the extremes of wartime life.
Rare and little-known work collected
Wide spectrum of genres, including fiction and non-fiction

Detailed coverage of the period 1914-1930
360 pp.; 0-19-812280-2 January 2000 $35.00 (01) Tentative

Iracema
JOSÉ DE ALENCAR
Translated by CLIFFORD E. LANDERS
Edited by NAOMI LINDSTROM, University of Texas, Austin, and ALCIDES VILLACA, University of Sao Paulo

Jose de Alencar's prose-poem Iracema, first published in 1865, is a classic of Brazilian literature--perhaps the most widely-known piece of fiction within Brazil, and the most widely-read of Alencar;s many works. Set in the sixteenth century, it is an extremely romantic portrayal of a doomed live between a Portuguese soldier and an Indian maiden. Iracema reflects the gingerly way that mid-nineteenth cenury Brazil dealt with race mixture and multicultural experience. Precisely because of its nineteenth-century romanticism, Iracema strongly contributed to a Brazilian sense of nationhood--contemporary Brazilian writers and literary critics still cite it as a foundation for their own work.
176 pp.; 5-1/2 x 8-1/4; 0-19-511547-3 January 2000 $30.00 (01) Tentative cloth
January 2000 $14.95 (03) Tentative paper

Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant
MANUEL ANTÔNIO DE ALMEIDA
Translated by RONALD W. SOUSA
Foreword by THOMAS H. HOLLOWAY
Afterword by FLORA SÜSSEKIND

Recognized as a turning point in Brazilian literature, this entertaining novel of urban manners follows the neer-do-well Leonardo through his various romantic liaisons and frequent scrapes with the law. First printed in weekly installments in 1852, and later published in two volumes in 1854-55, Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant comprises a series of humorous vignettes held together by the adventures and misfortunes of this young rogue--who matures from a handful of a toddler into a ruffian of a boy and an idler of a young man--and his father, also named Leonardo.

Manuel Antonio De Almeida tells a story in everyday language that is rich in detail of life on the streets and the modest circumstances of the free poor of Rio de Janeiro. Through satirical accounts of the escapades of characters who always seem close to the brink of some personal crisis or social misstep, yet who manage to pull through by hook or by crook, Almeida makes a subtle and incisive comment on Brazilian urban society and culture of the nineteenth century. Now available in a new and lively translation, Memoirs of a Military Sergeant occupies an important position in the satirical literature of Brazil and the world.
208 pp.; 5-1/2 x 8-1/4; 0-19-511549-X November 1999 $30.00 (02) cloth
2000 $14.95 (03) paper

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