Books by Peter Robinson

Book SynopsisThe first of August nineteen-fourteen saw the beginning of the war that was to end all wars and which, instead, ushered in a century of armed conflicts, two of them described as global. This anthology’s title is borrowed from Andrew Marvell’s ‘Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’, in which he deprecates ‘the inglorious arts of peace’. With this gathering of newly composed poems, and against that grain, this anthology looks to celebrate all that is left behind in times of conflict and which conflict is so often evoked to defend. In this spirit, Adrian Blamires and Peter Robinson have edited a collection of poems that address peace and war from an unusually varied range of angles. The more than fifty contributors include Fleur Adcock, Robyn Bolam, Vahni Capildeo, Fred D’Aguiar, Gerald Dawe, Jane Draycott, Elaine Feinstein, Roy Fisher, Debora Greger, Philip Gross, Angela Leighton, William Logan, Allison McVety, Bill Manhire, John Matthias, Anthony Rudolf, Carol Rumens, Elizabeth Smither and Gregory Woods.

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Book SynopsisTaking some convalescent wanders around Reading, the narrator of The Constitutionals, a figure haunted by being called Crusoe in childhood, also `sets out to avert global catastrophe, hoping to trigger the end of neoliberalism by going for a walk.' What does he discover about the place in which he's settled with his wife, who he will call Friday, and their ocean-haunted daughter? Published on the tercentenary of Robinson Crusoe's appearance, our author answers such questions by paying sustained tribute to the town, and the founding `autobiography' by which it has-as have so many works alluded to here-been indelibly marked.Trade Review`Drinking deep from one of the great and self-renewing sources of the English imagination, Peter Robinson caulks the punctured craft of contemporary fiction. His wit and intelligence reinvigorate our diminished sense of the local: as it reluctantly reveals itself through a series of melancholy peregrinations. Here the solitary poet walks with his invisible peers, ventriloquizing the grateful dead, and making new’—IAIN SINCLAIR

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Book SynopsisTextual scholarship has always been closely linked to questions of canonicity, both in terms of what texts are edited and how they are edited. As attitudes towards the canon have altered over the last decade, textual scholarship too has changed, both in practice and theory. The essays in this collection examine the connections between textual scholarship and the canon, and the implications for textual scholarship of changing attitudes to the canon within the wider academic environment. As is now characteristic of Variants, essays range widely over time and space in their focus, reflecting the breadth of the Society’s membership and interests. Two essays focus on different aspects of the distinctive Lithuanian experience of the canon. Other essays trace the influence of the concept in Sweden, the problematic nature of the canon when dealing with unstable medieval texts, the debate within the German scholarly community about modes of editing, developments in the canon outside the academic world in the last decades, and an account of the problems of editing a very non-canonical text. Three essays not linked to the theme of the volume close the collection: an account of the galley proofs of Pynchon’s V., a survey of developments in book design for scholarly editions through print and beyond, and an account of the reception of Ossian, which fuses book history, textual scholarship and intellectual history.Table of ContentsPeter Robinson: Introduction Mikas Vaicekauskas: To Burn or To Republish? The Fate of the 18th–19th century Lithuanian Bestseller Paulius V. Subačius: Canonisation as Impediment to Textual Scholarship: Lithuanian Postcolonial Experiences Paula Henrikson: Canon and Classicity: Editing as Canonising in Swedish Romanticism Gabriel Viehhauser: On the Margin of the Canon: Editions, the “Whole” Text and the “Whole” Codex Michael Stolz: Medieval Canonicity and Rewriting: A Case Study of the Sigune-figure in Wolfram’s Parzival Rüdiger Nutt-Kofoth: The Beißnerian Mode, the Zellerian Mode, and the Canonical Way of Modern Editing: Upheavals and Deviations in German Editorial Methodology – and its Historiography Jesús Varela Zapata: The Canon Beyond Academia: Alternative Sources of Canonicity in Twentieth-Century Literature in English Nila Vázquez: Drawbacks in the Process of Editing a Non-Canonical Chaucerian Text: The Case of Yonge Gamelyne of the Canterbury Tales Luc Herman, John M. Krafft and Sharon B. Krafft: Missing Link: The V. Galleys at the Morgan Library and the Harry Ransom Center Hans Walter Gabler: From Argument to Design: Editions in Books and Beyond the Book Christian Benne: Ossian: The Book History of an Anti-book Reviews Gillian Wright: Peter Beal, comp. A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 Annika Bautz: Paul Eggert, Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature Christine Collière-Whiteside: Olga Anokhina and Sabine Pétillon, eds. Critique génétique: Concepts, methods, outils Oliver Pickering: Siân Echard, Printing the Middle Ages Stephen B. Dobranski: The 1671 Poems: “Paradise Regain’d” and “Samson Agonistes.” Ed. Laura Lunger Knoppers. Vol. 2 of The Complete Works of John Milton Katie Halsey: Janet Todd and Linda Bree (eds). The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen: Later Manuscripts Chris Ackerley: Dirk Van Hulle. Manuscript Genetics: Joyce’s Know-How, Beckett’s Nohow Werner Gelderblom: Musique Deoque: Un Archivio Digitale di Poesia Latina /A Digital Archive of Latin Poetry Notes on Contributors

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