Reviews

• Published in: English studies 1991, Vol.72 (1), p.81-104
• Main Authors: Lester, G.A., Lidaka, Juris G., Seymour, M.C., Shell, Alison, Sørensen, Knud, Simon, Iréne, Blank, G.K., Hartveit, Lars, Flay, M., Bak, Hans, Fry, August J., Preisler, Bent, Mindt, Dieter
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0013-838X; 1744-4217
• DOI: 10.1080/00138389108598735

A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050-1500. General editor, Albert E. Hartung. Volume 8: Chapter XXI, Chronicles and Other Historical Writings. Compiled by Edward Donald Kennedy. New Haven: Archon Books, for the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1989. x + 360 pp. Price: $ 56.95. Reading the Morte Darthur. By Terence Mccarthy. Arthurian Studies 20. Woodbridge: D.S. Brewer. 1988. xvi + 187 pp. Price: £ 25. The English of Chaucer and his Contemporaries. Edited by J.J. Smith. Aberdeen: the University Press. 1989 pp. 132. Price: £ 17.50. Middle English Dialectology. Edited by M. Laing. Aberdeen: the University Press. 1989. pp. 310. Price: £ 24.90. Alliterative Poetry of the Later Middle Ages. Edited by T. Turville-Petre. London: Routledge. 1989. xiv + 262 pp. Price: £ 30.00/£ 10.95 (pb.) The Wars of Alexander. Edited by H.N. Duggan and T. Turville-Petre. Early English Text Society, S.S. 10. Oxford: OUP. 1989. lviii + 398 pp. Price: £ 30.00. Jesuit Theatre Englished: Five Tragedies of Joseph Simons. Translated from the Latin by Richard E. Arnold, Edward W. Burke, Philip C. Fischer, Richard F. Grady and Marcus A. Haworth. Edited by Louis J. Oldani, S.J. and Philip C. Fischer, S.J. St. Louis: The Institute of Jesuit Sources. 1989. 394 pp. Price: $ 34.95. Frideric Boiling's Engelske Dictionarium (1678). A Facsimile With Comments and Notes. Edited by Inge Kabell and Hanne Lauridsen. Publications of the Department of English, University of Copenhagen, vol. 17. 1989. 185 pp. Price Dkr. 114. English Drama: Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 1660-1789. By Richard W. Bevis. Longman English Literature Series. London: Longman. 1988. xiii + 341 pp. Price: £ 16.95 hb./ £ 7.95 pb. English Fiction of the Eighteenth Century 1700-1789. By Clive T. Probyn. Longman English Literature Series. London: Longman. 1987. xiii + 244 pp. Price: £ 6.95. William Wordsworth: A Life. By Stephen Gill. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1989. xv + 525 pp. Price: £ 17.50. On the Brink. English Novels of 1866. By Monica Correa Fryckstedt. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia 69. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell International. 1989. 157 pp. Price: SEK 113. Huckleberry Finn. By Harold Beaver. Unwin Critical Library. London: Allen and Unwin. 1987. 214 pp. Price: £ 20. Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism. By John Burt. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1988. xiv. 238 pp. Price: $ 27.50. A History of Canadian Literature. By William H. New. (The Macmillan