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Literature Dear Diego
Revolutionary Women Writers
by Elena Poniatowska, translated with an introduction by Nathanial Gardner
Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams by Angela Keane
When Diego Rivera’s biographer, Bertram Wolfe, was sifting through the painter’s jumbled collection of correspondence, he encountered a series of Parisian letters from the Russian painter Angelina Beloff. Long before Diego became famous for his Mexican murals or his renowned wife, Frida Kahlo, he was married to Beloff. Wolfe was impressed by the letters and included a chapter on them in his biography of the muralist. Several years later, Mexican author Elena Poniatowska decided to rewrite them.
This book brings together two of the most significant British women writers of the Romantic period, Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams, and explores the poetics and politics of their work. In the 1790s, when Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams were at the peak of their critical reputations, they were known to each other and often cited together approvingly. It was Smith who provided the young William Wordsworth with a letter of introduction to Williams when he visited France in 1791 (though she had left by the time he got there). By the end of the decade, Smith and Williams were being cited together more pejoratively, as two of a number of women who came to stand for the amoral, sexually suspect and politically naïve English ‘Jacobins,’ who were vilified in the conservative press. Neither were in fact ‘Jacobins,’ but they were revolutionary. This book looks at how Smith and Williams earned such reputations and at the politics and poetics of the works that reveal Smith to be a self-constructed Romantic and Williams as a mistress of intimate disguise. 128p.
The result is Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela, a masterful blending of fact and fiction that creates a novella out of twelve imagined letters that Angelina writes to Diego over a nine-month period. This bilingual edition is a new initiative that introduces the reader to the work of one of Mexico’s most celebrated female writers and helps the student and enthusiast understand this author’s place and importance in Latin American letters. 266p. Aris & Phillips, Hispanic Classics, 2012 9780856688805, hardback – $80.00. Special Offer $64.00 9780856688812, paperback – $25.00. Special Offer $20.00
Northcote House Publishers, Writers and their Work, July 2012 9780746310960, hardback – $80.00. Special Offer $64.00 9780746309711, paperback – Was $26.00. Now just $19.95
Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Tristan Kay, Elena Lombardi and Francesca Southerden This volume takes Dante’s rich and multifaceted discourse of desire, from the Vita Nova to the Commedia, as a point of departure in investigating medieval concepts of desire in all their multiplicity, fragmentation and interrelation. As well as offering several original contributions on this fundamental aspect of Dante’s work, it seeks to situate the Florentine more effectively within the broader spectrum of medieval culture and to establish greater intellectual exchange between Dante scholars and those from other disciplines. The volume is also notable for its openness to diverse critical and methodological approaches. In considering the extent to which modern theoretical paradigms can be used to shed light upon the Middle Ages, it will interest those engaged with questions of critical theory as well as medieval culture. 200p. Maney Publishing, Legenda Main Series, July 2012 9781907747960, hardback – $89.50. Special Offer $72.00
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Tirso de Molina Marta the Divine translated with an introduction by Harley Erdman Tirso de Molina’s Marta the Divine (c. 1614-15) is a spirited comedy about an ingenious young woman who fakes religious piety in order to avoid an arranged marriage imposed upon her by her father. Marta has been a controversial play over the years, condemned for immorality and salaciousness by some, championed as an anticlerical tract by others. No matter one’s perspective, Marta is memorable because of the audaciousness and resourcefulness of the title character. This edition presents the play for the first time ever in English translation. The translation is accompanied by the Spanish text, translators’ note and a substantial introduction. 112p. Aris & Phillips, Hispanic Classics, July 2012 9781908343000, hardback – $80.00. Special Offer $64.00 9781908343017, paperback – $25.00. Special Offer $20.00
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