Most frequently borrowed items during Michaelmas 2015 The following lists the items most frequently borrowed from the English Faculty Library during Michaelmas term 2015. The number of loans may also include several volumes from a multi-part set. Author Title Publication Date No. of Loans British Library. Manuscript Cotton Nero A. x. The poems of the Pearl manuscript : Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 2007 29 Dinshaw, Carolyn. Chaucer's sexual poetics 1989 28 Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943- Renaissance self-fashioning : from More to Shakespeare 2005 27 A companion to the Gawain-poet 1997 25 Putter, Ad. An introduction to the Gawain-poet 1996 25 The Cambridge companion to Old English literature 2013 24 Reddick, Allen Hilliard The making of Johnson's dictionary, 1746-1773 1996 24 Smith, J. J. (Jeremy J.) An historical study of English : function, form and change 2009 21 Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Satire, fantasy, and writings on the supernatural 2003 19 Baker, Peter S. (Peter Stuart), 1952- Introduction to Old English 2012 19 Windeatt, B. A. (Barry A.), 1950- Troilus and Criseyde 1992 19 Cooper, Helen, 1947- The Canterbury tales 1996 18 Orchard, Andy. A critical companion to Beowulf 2003 18 Gaiman, Neil. The Sandman 2010 18 Botting, Fred, author. Gothic 2014 18 Carter, Ronald, 1947- Seeing through language : a guide to styles of English writing 1990 18 Fairclough, Norman, 1941- Language and power 2001 17 The hollow crown William Shakespeares's Henry IV, Parts 1 & II (DVD) 2012 17 Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century. Malory : works 1971 16 Carey, John, 1934- John Donne : life, mind and art 1990 16 Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. The collected works of Langston Hughes 2001 16 Ricks, Christopher, 1933- Tennyson 1989 16 The Oxford history of classical reception in English literature 2012 16 Asser, John, -909. Alfred the Great : Asser's Life of King Alfred and other contemporary sources 1983 16 Cooper, Helen, 1947- The structure of the Canterbury tales 1983 16
Hawkes, Terence. Metaphor 1972 16 Davenport, W. A. (William Anthony), 1935- The art of the Gawain-poet 1978 16 Lakoff, George. Metaphors we live by 2003 15 Old English poems of Christ and his saints 2013 15 Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492. Caxton's own prose 1973 15 Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Selected essays, poems and other writings 1990 14 Beckett on film 2001 14 Eltis, Sos. Revising Wilde : society and subversion in the plays of Oscar Wilde 1996 14 Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678. The poems of Andrew Marvell 2007 14 The stranger 2006 14 Njal's saga 2001 14 The Cambridge companion to the Brontës 2002 14 Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century. Works 1977 13 1599. The shorter poems 1999 13 Gaskell, Philip. A new introduction to bibliography 1972 13 Continuations and beginnings : studies in Old English literature 1966 13 The complete sagas of Icelanders, including 49 tales 1997 13 Donoghue, Denis, author. Metaphor 2014 13 Strohm, Paul, 1938- Social Chaucer 1989 13 Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Troilus & Criseyde : a new edition of 'The book of Troilus' 1984 13 Casanova, Pascale.. The world republic of letters 2004 13 Carter, Angela, 1940-1992 The Sadeian woman : an exercise in cultural history 1979 13 1599. Edmund Spenser's poetry : authoritative texts, criticism 1993 13 Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?- 1450? Hoccleve's works. 1892 12 Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Troilus and Criseyde 2008 12 The Purloined Poe : Lacan, Derrida & psychoanalytic reading 1988 12 Bate, Jonathan. Shakespeare and Ovid 1993 12 Sierz, Aleks. In-yer-face theatre : British drama today 2001 12 The Cambridge companion to medieval English mysticism 2011 12 Pearsall, Derek. Arthurian romance : a short introduction 2003 12 Dryden, John, 1631-1700. The works of John Dryden 1956 12 Postcolonialism : critical concepts in literary and cultural studies 2000 12 The Norton anthology of theory and criticism 2010 12
Mann, Jill. Feminizing Chaucer 2002 12 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sir Thomas More 2011 12 The magnificent Ambersons 2006 12 Wiggins, Martin, author. British drama, 1533-1642 : a catalogue 2012 12 Nicholson, Steve, author. The censorship of British drama, 1900-1968 2003 12 Pearl (Middle English poem). Pearl 1953 12 McCabe, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1954- Spenser's monstrous regiment : Elizabethan Ireland and the poetics of difference 2002 12 Critical essays on Chaucer's Canterbury tales 1991 12 Beowulf : a student edition 1994 12 Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601. The works of Thomas Nashe 1958 12 Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400, author. The Riverside Chaucer 2008 12 Kempe, Margery, approximately 1373- The book of Margery Kempe 2004 12 Old and Middle English, c.890-c.1450 : an anthology 2010 12 Essayists on the essay : Montaigne to our time 2012 12 Gilbert, Sandra M., author. The madwoman in the attic : the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination 2000 12 Bloom, Harold. The anxiety of influence : a theory of poetry 1997 11 Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. The poems of Tennyson : in three volumes 1987 11 Carey, John, 1934- The violent effigy : a study of Dickens' imagination 1973 11 Carter, Angela, 1940-1992 The passion of new Eve 1982 11 Burnley, J. D. The history of the English language : a source book 2000 11 Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957. The complete Wild body 1982 11 The Cambridge companion to Ben Jonson 2000 11 Cummings, Brian. The literary culture of the Reformation : grammar and grace 2002 11 The Cambridge companion to English Renaissance drama 2003 11 Julian, of Norwich, 1343- Revelations of divine love : short text and long text 1998 11 Staley, Lynn, 1947- Margery Kempe's dissenting fictions 1994 11 Bowers, John M., 1949- An introduction to the Gawain poet 2012 11 1599. The faerie queene 2007 11 Wanderer (Anglo-Saxon poem) The wanderer 1985 11 Welsford, Enid. The fool : his social and literary history 1935 11 Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894. Christina Rossetti : the complete poems 2001 11
The Cambridge companion to Oscar Wilde 1997 11 Hutcheon, Linda, 1947- A theory of adaptation 2013 11 Modern genre theory 2000 11 Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637. Volpone, or The fox ; Epicene, or The silent woman ; The alchemist ; Bartholomew Fair 2008 11 Clery, E. J. The rise of supernatural fiction, 1762-1800 1995 11 Langland, William, 1330?- 1400? The vision of Piers Plowman : a critical edition of the B-text based on Trinity College Cambridge MS 1995 11 Hoccleve, Thomas, 1370?- 1450? 'My compleinte' and other poems 2001 11 Benson, C. David. Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde 1990 11 Martin, Priscilla. Chaucer's women : nuns, wives and amazons 1996 10 Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl), 1848-1907. Against nature 2003 10 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. English. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 2007 10 Eliot, George, 1819-1880. The lifted veil ; Brother Jacob 1999 10 Aers, David. Community, gender, and individual identity : English writing 1360-1430 1988 10 Cameron, Deborah, 1958- The myth of Mars and Venus 2007 10 Kempe, Margery, approximately 1373- author. The book of Margery Kempe 2015 10 Critchley, Simon, 1960- On humour 2002 10 1599. The shepherd's calendar 1930 10 Herbert, George, 1593-1633. The works of George Herbert 1941 10 Grand, Sarah. Sex, social purity, and Sarah Grand 2000 10 Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Collected plays 1979 10 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. The first part of King Henry IV 1960 10 Said, Edward W., author. Orientalism 2003 10 Dijkstra, Bram. Idols of perversity : fantasies of feminine evil in fin-de-siècle culture 1986 10 A Beowulf handbook 1996 10 A companion to Julian of Norwich 2008 10 Bible. O.T. Psalms. English (Old English). King Alfred's Old English prose translation of the first fifty Psalms 2001 10 Empson, William, 1906-1984 Seven types of ambiguity 1953 10 Allott, Miriam Farris. Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre and Villette : a casebook 1973 10 The Sense of sex : feminist perspectives on Hardy 1993 10 Herbert, George, 1593-1633, author. The English poems of George Herbert 2011 10 A companion to Chaucer 2000 10 Dickens's style 2013 10 Lakoff, George. More than cool reason : a field guide to poetic 1989 10
metaphor The poems of the Pearl manuscript in modern English prose translation : Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, 2013 10 New readings on women in Old English literature 1990 10 Pynchon, Thomas, author. The crying of Lot 49 2000 10 The works of the Gawain poet : Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 2014 10 Donaldson, E. Talbot (Ethelbert Talbot), 1910-1987. Speaking of Chaucer 1970 10 Mitchell, Bruce, 1920-2010, author. A guide to Old English 2012 10 Dream of the rood. The dream of the rood 1996 10 Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850. The prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850 : authoritative texts, context and reception, recent critical essays 1979 10 Schaub, Thomas H., 1947- American fiction in the cold war 1991 10 Kemp, Sandra. Kipling's hidden narratives 1988 10 The Cambridge companion to English Renaissance tragedy 2010 10 Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, author. The essays 1985 10