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Editor: Kate Flint Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – 774 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram Victorian literature is literature, mainly written in English, during the reign of Queen Victoria  from 1837 to 1901. It is called the Victorian era, and it was preceded by Romanticism beginning in the 1770s, and followed by the Edwardian era, from 1901 to 1910. Victorian literature took numerous forms such as poetry (lyrics) and prose, such as  descriptive, narrative, and other forms. This large volume on Victorian literature is a compilation of articles by 33 authors, many of whom are professors at colleges and universities in the United Kingdom and...

Volume 1: Origins to Constantine – 740 pages Editors: Margaret M. Mitchell and Frances M. Young Volume 2: Constantine to 600 – 758 pages Editors: Augustine Casiday and Frederick W. Norris Volume 3: Early Medieval Christianities – c. 600 – 1100 – 846 pages Editors: Thomas F. X. Noble and Julia M. H. Smith Volume 4: Christianity in Western Europe c. 1100-1500 – 577 pages Editors: Miri Rubin and Walter Simons Volume 5: Eastern Christianity – 722 pages Editor: Michael Angold Volume 6: Reform and Expansion – 1500-1600 – 749 pages Editor: R.Po-Chia Hsia Volume 7: Enlightenment, Reawakening and...

Volume 1: 1597-1601 – 555 pages Volume 2: 1601-1606 – 712 pages Volume 3: 1606-1611 – 762 pages Volume 4: 1611-1616 – 728 pages Volume 5: 1616-1625 – 721 pages Volume 6: 1626-1636 – 700 pages Volume 7: 1636-1641 – 792 pages Editors: David Bevington, Martin Butler, and Ian Donaldson Publisher:  Cambridge University Press – total 4,970 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This work of seven volumes presents Ben Jonson’s complete writings on the light of current editorial thinking and recent scholarly interpretation and discovery. It presents a clear case of the shape, scale, and variety of the...

Editor:  Charles M. Rosenberg Publisher: Cambridge University Press – 423 pages, with 35 color plates + 228 black-and-white images Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This is a book about the artistic centers of northern Italy during fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. It takes a close look at the patronage of art and its development, as well as the production of art works during that period. Seven specialists in a related range of subjects – architecture, art, art history, decorative arts, European (French, Italian, and Spanish) art,  museology,  painting,  Renaissance studies, and sculpture in the nine cities stated above –...

Editors: James McGuire and James Quinn Publisher:  Cambridge University Press & Royal Irish Academy – 11,285 pages Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram This work of 11 volumes (weighing over 56 pounds) consists of a 9-volume set published in 2009, plus two later supplements, contains 10,000+ biographies of prominent men and women born in Ireland, and Irish men and women born worldwide, up to and including those who died in the year 2010. The nine-volume work is a comprehensive and authoritative biographical reference work available both in print and online. The nine-volume set contains over 9,000 entries covering the lives...