Author-title catalogue of English prose fiction, including translations.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Zurich letters (second series) comprising the correspondence of several English bishops and others with some of the Helvetian reformers, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

Half-title: The Zurich letters. (Second series) A.D. 1558-1602.

Stories by English authors.

The mystery of Sasassa Valley / by A. Conan Doyle -- Long odds / by H. Rider Haggard -- King Bemba's Point / by J. Landers -- Ghamba / by W. C. Scully -- Mary Musgrave / Anonymous -- Gregorio / by Percy Hemingway.

The library of fiction, or, Family storyteller.

Mode of access: Internet.

The English novel; being a short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley,

Mode of access: Internet.

The English novel in the time of Shakespeare,

"First edition, May, 1890 ... Reprinted November, 1908."

Four years of novel reading: an account of an experiment in popularizing the study of fiction /

Mode of access: Internet.

The development of the English novel /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-314) and index.

Tales of the day : selected from the most distinguished English authors as they issue from the press.

Mode of access: Internet.

The development of the English novel,

Bibliographical notes: p. 300-314.

'That Puissant City': John Milton's Roman Sojourns 1638-1639

John Milton’s sojourns in Rome (1638-9) are attested by his comments in Defensio Secunda, by the minutes of the English College, by Latin encomia which he received from Roman academicians, and, not least, by his Latin letter to Lucas Holstenius (19/29 March 1639), and several Latin poems which he composed in the course of his residency in the capital city: Ad Salsillum, and three Latin epigrams extolling the praises of the virtuosa soprano, Leonora Baroni. Read together, these texts serve to reveal much about Milton’s participation in, and reaction to, the ‘Puissant City’, (History of Britain, Bk 2).

The present monograph presents fresh evidence of Milton's integration into the academic and cultural life of seventeenth-century Rome. It argues that his links with two Roman academies: the Accademia dei Fantastici and Accademia degli Umoristi constitute a sustained participation in an academic community paralleling that of his independently attested performance in Florentine academies (on which I have published extensively). It also investigates his links with Alessandro Cherubini, David Codner, Giovanni Batista Doni, and the Baroni circle hymned in three published anthologies.

Chapter 1: Milton and the Accademia dei Fantastici investigates the cultural climate surrounding Milton's Ad Salsillum by examining two of that academy's publications: the Poesie dei Signori Accademici Fantastici di Roma (Rome, 1637) and the Academia Tenuta da Fantastici a. 12 di Maggio 1655 (Rome, 1655), the latter celebrating the creation of Fabio Chigi as Pope Alexander VII on 5 April 1655. Read in a new light, Milton’s self-fashioning, it is argued, takes its place not only alongside Salzilli’s encomium in Milton's honour, and his Italian sonnets in the 1637 Poesie, but also in relation to other poems in that collection, and the academy's essentially Catholic eulogistic trend. The chapter also provides fresh evidence of Salzilli’s survival of the illness described in Milton’s poem by his epistolary correspondence with Tomaso Stigliani.

Chapter 2: Milton and the Vatican argues for links between Milton’s Latin letter to Holstenius and a range of Holstenius’ published works: his edition of the axioms of the later Pythagoreans gifted by him to Milton, and his published neo-Platonic works. This is achieved by mutual appropriation of Similitudes in a series of Miltonic similes, the anabasis/katabasis motifs in a reworking of the Platonic theory of the transmigration of souls, and allusion to etymological details highlighted in Holstenius’ published editions. The chapter also reveals Milton’s alertness to typographical procedures and, by association, to Holstenius’ recent role (1638) as Director of the press of the Biblioteca Vaticana.

Chapter 3: Milton and the Accademia degli Umoristi argues for Milton’s likely participation in this Roman academy, as suggested by his links with its members. His three Latin epigrams in praise of Leonora Baroni, the only female member of the Umoristi, have hitherto been studied in relation to the 1639 Applausi in her honour. In a new reading, Milton, it is suggested, invokes and interrogates Catholic doctrine before a Catholic audience only to view the whole through the lens of a neo-Platonic Hermeticism (by echoing the phraseology of the sixteenth-century Franciscan Hannibal Rosselli) that refreshingly transcends religious difference. Crucially, the hitherto neglected L’Idea della Veglia (Rome, 1640) includes further encomiastic verse, sonnets to, and by Leonora, and details of the conversazioni hosted by her family at the precise time of Milton’s Roman sojourns. Milton may well have been a participant. The chapter concludes in an assessment of his links with the youthful prodigy Alessandro Cherubini, and of his audience with Francesco Barberini.

Chapter 4: Milton at a Roman Opera analyses the potential impact of ‘Chi Soffre, Speri’, which he attended on 18/28 February 1639, mounted by Francesco Barberini to inaugurate the recently completed theatre of the Palazzo Barberini. A detailed analysis of the opera's libretto, music, and theatricality casts a backward glance to Milton's Comus, and a forward glance to Paradise Lost. It also assesses Milton’s musical interests at this time, as attested by his links with Doni, and his purchase of works by Monteverdi and others.

Chapter 5: Milton’s English Connections in Rome develops the work of Miller and Chaney by investigating Milton’s co-diners at the English College in Rome on 30 October 1638, and by analysing his links between David Codner (alias Matteo Selvaggio), and the family of Jane Savage, Marchioness of Winchester, lamented by Milton in 1631. It also assesses his potential relations with the Englishman Thomas Gawen, who ‘accidentally sometimes fell into the company of John Milton’ (Antony Wood).

The Mary Carleton narratives, 1663-1673, a missing chapter in the history of the English novel,

The singular life and curious biographies of Mary Carleton.--The Carleton publications of 1663.--The minor publications of 1673.--"The counterfeit lady," a fiction.--The narrative technique of "The counterfeit lady."--The historical significance of "The counterfeit lady."--The current doctrine of the rise of the English novel.--Bibliographical difficulties.

Pequín, London, Roma: un viatge lingüístic a través de la història de tres llengües: gramàtica comparada entre el xinès, l'anglès i el llatí

Treball de recerca realitzat per un alumne d'ensenyament secundari i guardonat amb un Premi CIRIT per fomentar l'esperit científic del Jovent l'any 2009. En aquest treball es vol trobar un vincle entre les cultures més influents al llarg de la història d’Àsia i Europa, prenent com a element bàsic les seves llengües: el xinès, l’anglès i el llatí. Ara bé, la comparació lingüística entre elles només té veritable interès si es cerca allò comú sobretot semàntica i sintàcticament, posat que d'entrada, visual i fonèticament, qualsevol profà pot observar-ne prou diferències. Aquestes característiques comunes, doncs, tenen valor independentment del temps i l'espai, ja que el que hi ha en joc aquí és, en el fons, el llenguatge verbal com a nervi del fet de ser humà. Els continguts s'estructuren mitjançant l'ús d'un mètode inductiu com a regla d’anàlisi comparativa; no es pot, tanmateix, prescindir d'una introducció teòrica de lingüística, absolutament necessària per a un estudi comparatiu de gramàtica. Una vegada conclòs el treball, es veu que els conceptes que totes tres expressen són comuns i el canvi, quan es dóna, afecta la forma i està relacionat amb les regles de la lògica: aquests casos, doncs, no fan sinó confirmar la tesi, ja que esperar una equivalència total seria no només ingenu, sinó gens natural ni realista. L'anhel del traductor és arribar a expressar, precisament, aquest univers.

Grècia i amor platònic a Maurice d'E. M. Forster, o la grandesa i els límits de l'Antiguitat com a inspiració.

L'objectiu d¿aquest article és mostrar com, malgrat la idealització evident de Grècia i l'amor platònic en diferents autors de l'Anglaterra Victoriano-Eduardina, ambdós tenen els seus límits. Per explicar-ho, doncs, l'autor presenta una anàlisi minuciosa del text anglès i, alhora, fa constants referències al textos grecs implícits, com ara el Simposi i el Fedre de Plató i tal vegada fins i tot l'Eròtic de Plutarc en cerca d'una tradició clàssica que és cabdal per entendre l'Anglaterra de principis del segle XX.

Grecia y amor platónico en Maurice de E.M. Forster, o la grandeza y los límites de la Antigüedad como inspiración

El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar cómo, pese a la evidente idealización de Grecia y el amor platónico en la Inglaterra Victoriano-Eduardina, ambos tienen sus límites. Para explicarlo, pues, el autor presenta un análisis minucioso del texto inglés y, a la vez, se refiere constantemente a los textos griegos implícitos como el Simposio y el Fedro de Platón y tal vez incluso el Erótico de Plutarco en busca de una tradición clásica que es capital para entender la Inglaterra de principios del siglo XX