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• Volume 1 General Editor's Introduction-- Italian Lives: Lives of Petrach, Boccaccio, Lorenzo di Medici, Marsilis Marsiglio, Giovanni Pico dell Mirandola, Angelo Poliziano, Bernardo Pulci, Luca Pulci, Luigi Pulci, Cieco de Ferrara, Burchiello, Matteo Maria Bojardo, Francesco Berni, Machiavelli, Guiccardini, Vittoria Colonna, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Gabriello Chiabrera, Alessandro Tassoni, Giambattista Marini, Vincenzo de Filicaja, Pietro Metastasio, Carlo Goldoni, Vittorio Alfieri, Vincenzo Monti, Ugo Foscolo Volume 2 Spanish and Portuguese lives: Survey of early Hispanic literature, Juan Boscan, Garcilaso de la Vega, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Luis Ponce de Leon, Fernando de Herrera, Jorge de Montemayor, Cristobal de Castillejo, Cervantes, Alonzo de Ericilla [not by Mary Shelley], Lope de Vega, Vincente Espinel, Esteban de Villegas, Luis de Gongora, Franciso Gomez de Quevedo, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Bernardim Ribeyro, Gil Vincente, Francisco de Sa de Miranda, Antonio Ferreira, Luiz Vaz de Camoens-- French Lives: Montaigne, Rabelais [not by Mary Shelley], Corneille, La Rochefoucauld Volume 3 French Lives: Moliere, Boileau, Racine, La Fontaine [not by Mary Shelley], Pascal, Madame de Sevigne, Fenelon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Condorcet, Mirabeau, Madame Roland, Madame de Stael Volume 4 Memoirs: 'Life of William Godwin' (1836-c.1840)-- Non-dramatic poetry: 'The Choice' (1823)-- 'On Reading Wordsworth's Lines on Peel Castle' (1825)-- 'To Jane with the Last Man' (1826)-- 'Absence' (1830)-- 'A Dirge' (1830)-- 'The Death of Love' (1831)-- 'A Night Scene' (1831)-- 'To love in solitude' (1832)-- 'Stanzas' (1832)-- 'La Vida es sueno' (1833-4)-- 'Fair Italy! Still shines thy sun as bright' (1833)-- 'Tempo e ben di morire' (1833) 'O listen while I sing to thee' (1838)-- 'O come to me in dreams' (1838)-- 'How like a Star you rose upon my Life' (1838)-- Uncollected Fiction: 'Maurice' (1820)-- 'Lacy de Vere' (1827)-- 'Cecil' (c1845) [newly identified as a translation]-- Uncollected Non-fiction: 'Theseus' fragment-- 'Cyrus' fragment (c1815)-- 'Book of Samuel' fragment (?1819-20)-- 'Necessity of a Belief in the Heathen Mythology' (c1820)-- 'Life of Shelley' (1823)-- 'Modern Italian Romances' (1828)-- Translations: 'Cupid and Psyche' (1817), 'Relation of the Death of the Family of the Cenci' (1819)-- Two chapters, of translation of Laura Tighe Galloni's novel 'Inez de Medina' (?1848-50)-- Part-Authored and Attributed Writings-- Index.
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Following the success of Mary Shelley's Novels and Selected Works there was some regret that Mary Shelley's remaining writing remained unpublished. In particular, this includes her lyric poetry and her writing for Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Biography as well as some material that has only recently been positively attributed to her. This can now be rectified with this four volume set that is edited to the same standard as the earlier edition. Publication of this material will allow libraries to complete the canon of Mary Shelley's work at a time when her literary reputation and interest in her continues to grow.
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• Introduction : life writing matters in Europe / Marijke Huisman
• European French-language life writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Catherine Viollet
• Cultural models: Russian eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century francophone life writing / Elena Gretchanaia
• Translation politics : foreign autobiographies on the nineteenth century Dutch book market / Marijke Huisman
• Past, present, and future of autobiography competitions and archives in Poland / Paweł Rodak
• Museums of the self: autobiographic memory and the cultural practice of collecting / Christian Moser
• Voices and inscriptions: making sense(s) in autobiography / Sabine Kim
• Changing identity formations in nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals' autobiographies / Nataliya Rodigina and Tatiana Saburova
• A writer's life : the modernist group and questions of identity in autobiographical writing / Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir
• Self and the city: locus of identity in Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul: memories and the city / Esra Almas
• Construction of identity and the role of autobiography in V.S. Naipaul's work / Anna Izabela Cichón
• Letter-writing and the construction of a transnational family: a private correspondence between the Netherlands and Germany, 1920--1949 / Barbara Henkes
• A Dutch collector with a German heart: the regional aspect of life writing in the case of Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939) / Eva Rovers
• Uses of biography: the Swedish version / Lisbeth Larsson
• Well-behaved women seldom make history, but if they do--: reflections on gender and biography / Mineke Bosch
• Margaret Thatcher and Gro Harlem Brundtland: two women prime ministers from the spectre of a comparative biography / Anneke Ribberink
• Constructing generational identity in post-communist autobiographies: the case of Latvia / Martins Kaprans
• An anthology of lives: Jaan Kross's Kallid Kaasteelised and Estonian memorial culture / Leena Kurvet-Käosaar
• Post-communist life writing and memory maps / Ioana Luca --Biographies
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Biography of Western scholars and translators.

• Contents include: Aphra Behn Emily Bronte Simone de Beauvoir Isak Dinesen Bridget of Sweden Hannah Arendt Agatha Christie Hildegard Von Bingen Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss Lina Wertmuller.
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A valuable survey and reference resource It is hard to imagine a more needed and more useful literary reference work than this one, which gives students and readers quick access to the lives and work of a wide range of notable female writers from England and the Continent, from Aphra Behn to Emily Bronte, from Simone de Beauvoir to Isak Dinesen, from Bridget of Sweden to Hannah Arendt. Writers in more than 30 languages are included: French, Czech, Greek, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Serbian, Catalan, Arabic, Hebrew, Dutch, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovak, and more. Covers 1,500 years and all major genres Going back 15 centuries, the Encyclopedia covers the authors of novels, short stories, poetry, plays, criticism, social commentary, feminist manifestos, romances, mysteries, memoirs, children's literature, biography, and other genres. In signed entries, some of which are mini-essays, experts in the field examine writers' lives and achievements, comment on individual works, place artistic efforts in historical context, provide insights and analyses, and present more information than can be easily found elsewhere without undertaking more exhaustive research. Each entry is followed by a bibliography of primary works. Indexed by language, nationality, genre, and century. Spotlights the interesting lives of notable writers In these pages students and readers will meet hundreds of interesting women writers who made lasting contributions to the intellectual and popular culture of their countries while often leading fascinating lives, among them: * AGATHA CHRISTIE , who wrote her first book in response to her sister's demand for a detective story that was harder to solve than the popular fiction of her day, and whose work has been translated in more languages than Shakespeare's. * HILDEGARD VON BINGEN , the 12th-century German mystic, who wrote profusely as a prophet, a poet, a dramatist, a physician, and a political moralist, often communicated with popes and princes, and exerted a tremendous influence on the Western Europe of her time * MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY, whose 1818 masterpiece Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus became a literary sensation around the world * ILSE BLUMENTHAL-WEISS, one of the few concentration camp survivors to memorialize the victims of the Holocaust in German verse * LINA WERTMULLER, who in addition to her work in films, has written plays for the stage and a novel, and who once was a member of a short-lived puppet theater that staged the works of Kafka. Special features: Ideal for quick reference and student research * Multicultural-covers over 30 languages and 15 centuries * Includes many contemporary writers * Provides essential biographic data on each writer * Each entry is followed by a chronological listing of the writer's published book-length works * Offers critical evaluations of major works * Indexes help find writers by country...research by time period...survey genres...focus on languages.
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• Table des entrées
• Présentation des auteurs
• Légende des indications bibliographiques
• Table des abréviations
• Ecrivains juristes et juristes écrivains du moyen âge au siècle des lumières
• Index des auteurs mentionnés.

"Cet ouvrage se demande quel rapport les écrivains, d'Isidore de Séville à Beaumarchais, ont entretenu avec la culture juridique. Il résulte du travail de plus de 130 spécialistes et comprend plus de 210 articles. La pratique du droit induit-elle des modes de pensée, un rapport au langage et au réel, qui se manifesteraient dans les oeuvres d'écrivains juristes ? À l'inverse, est-ce que le discours du droit, quelque rigoureux qu'il soit, ne fait pas une place à tout un imaginaire, qu'un oeil littéraire pourrait débusquer et élucider ? Conçu comme un outil de travail pour les chercheurs en histoire du droit et en littérature, ce volume offre aussi une lecture agréable à tous ceux qui cultivent la mémoire du droit."--Page 4 of cover.

• Contents: Hilary Brown/Gillian Dow: Introduction - Marianna D'Ezio: Literary and Cultural Intersections between British and Italian Women Writers and Salonnieres during the Eighteenth Century - Eve-Marie Lampron: From Venice to Paris: Fame, Gender and National Sensibilities in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Female Literary Networks - Marjanne E. Gooze: Mimicry and Influence: The 'French' Connection and the Berlin Jewish Salon - Nicole Pohl: European Networks: Dorothea von Kurland's Salons - Laura Kirkley: Translating Rousseauism: Transformations of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie in the Works of Helen Maria Williams and Maria Edgeworth - Suzan Van Dijk: Sociability and Mentoring by Correspondence: George Sand and Contemporary Female Writers - Elisabeth Jay: British Women Writers and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Parisian Salon - Kerstin Wiedemann: Intertextuality and Network Creation: References to George Sand in Novels by Mid-Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers - Ursula Jung: The Reception of Germaine de Stael and George Sand among Female Novelists in Nineteenth-Century Spain - Gesa Stedman: Passion and Talent, Fulfilment or Death? Germaine de Stael's Novel Corinne Crosses the Channel - Maire Fedelma Cross: Salons sans Frontieres: Flora Tristan's Reader and Writer - Alison E. Martin: Daughters of Science: Mathilde Orsted, Leonora and Joanna Horner - Daphne M. Hoogenboezem: Marvel, Feminism and Reason: Rewriting Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales for Dutch Children.
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The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw an explosion in Europe of interest in foreign languages and literatures. This book explores how early generations of women writers formed connections with each other across national boundaries. The volume sheds light on female networks spanning Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Holland and Denmark. It includes essays on 'virtual' networks, that is, on women who read, translated or were inspired by the work of women abroad, as well as essays exploring actual links between writers of different nationalities, be it through correspondence, visits or contact in the salons. The essays gathered here engage with a wide range of published and unpublished sources, from novels and poetry to autobiography and letters. They discuss writers whose work is becoming increasingly well known, such as Maria Edgeworth, Germaine de Stael, Rahel Varnhagen and George Sand, as well as those who are less familiar. Together, they open up new perspectives on the activities of these early women of letters and on the development of the European female literary tradition. The volume is based on selected papers from a conference held at Chawton House Library in 2008 in conjunction with the pan-European 'New Approaches to European Women's Writing' research project.
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