Author: Janine Rogers

  • Smyth, Karen, Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve’s Verse

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    Karen Smyth, Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve’s Verse (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011). 198 pp. £89.99. ISBN 978-1-4094-0631-0. (BSLS members receive a 20% discount on Ashgate titles.) In this well researched study, Karen Smyth delineates the ways and means of literary expressions of time in the poetry of Lydgate and Hoccleve. The choice of texts automatically…

  • Sleigh, Charlotte, Six Legs Better

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    Charlotte Sleigh, Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins UP, 2007). 302 pp.  £36.50 hb. ISBN 0-8018-8445-4. We might be surprised to discover how many of our beliefs about the mind, society, economics and communication are indebted to research on ants, through the field of myrmecology. Charlotte Sleigh’s Six Legs Better:…

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