This first volume of a three-volume anthology of women's writing in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era, covers the age of Roman Antiquity and early Christianity. It provides texts, contexts and translations of a wide variety of works, including dramatic, poetic and devotional writing.

Volume two of this three-volume anthology covers women's writing in Latin in the Middle Ages. Each volume in the anthology provides texts, contexts and translations of a wide variety of works produced by womem.

Volume three of this three-volume anthology covers women's writing in Latin during the early modern period (1400-1700). Each volume in the the anthology provides texts, contexts and translations of a wide variety of works by women.

Some 30 poems, stories, and excerpts include treatments of Arthurian themes by John Leland, Swift, Wordsworth, Swineburne, Hawthorne, Charles Williams, John Ciardi, and others. Essays introduce each of the four chronological sections, but could have provided more information about some of the less

Organized country by country and by governmental, non-governmental, and private organizations, this reference-guide identifies and describes thousands of environmental forces in 115 countries from Algeria to Zimbabwe. Useful to those who require more than a general listing of organizations and thei

Dutch Art offers a complete survey which documents a great tradition in its entirety, and compliments art history with the appropriate cultural history and setting.

The first comprehensive annotated bibliography of North American Indian music available, including 1,497 items dating from 1535 to 1995. The guide gathers information from the fields of anthropology, folklore, ethnomusicology, and dance, covering sources that include scholarly articles, books, bibli

Looks at the work and lives of three of the most significant women writers of the American radical movement of the 1930s, Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst, drawing on Marxist and post-Marxist theory as well as new feminist theory. Analyzes their key literary works, and places the

A collection of 21 essays written in the 19th and 20th century examining the influence of the Greek playwright on Western Civilization from the 1585 performance of Oedipus Rex at Vicenze to the present. They include discussions of Freud and the Oedipus Complex, views of generations of critics, and t

A collection of 74 articles by 42 international contributors, focusing on all aspects of Nabokov's legacy from his Russian and English periods, including his novels, poems, lectures, translations, chess problems, and lepidoptera studies. Articles survey critical reactions and analyze Nabokov's works