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MANNING, JOHN
John Manning is based at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He has written on British literature from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century but specialises in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature; literary relations between the British Isles and the Continent; theories of emblems, symbols and images; the relationship between words and images; and the problems of editing emblematic texts and manuscripts. John is also interested in the reception of Shakespearean texts, principally Hamlet. He has published in a number of essay anthologies and journals including Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Notes and Queries, Renaissance Studies and Emblematica. John is also series editor of The Hamlet Collection, published by AMS Press, is on the Editorial Board of Early Modern Literary Studies, and is a general editor of a new series published by Brepols, Imago figurata.Reviews:
"…The Emblem is impressively broad in scope and is sure to become the standard introductory guide to the genre…"
Times Higher Education
"...This book is a magisterial performance, sure to be in demand as an introduction to the emblem for general readers, as well as having much to say to emblem specialists..."
Alastair Fowler, University of Edinburgh
"...One of the most challenging and significant re-evaluations of the emblem to have appeared in recent years..."
Society for Emblem Studies Newsletter
"...One of the most provocative and substantial books on literary criticism and art to appear in a long time..."
Seventeenth-Century News
"...An excellent introduction to the emblem in what is one of the few general treatments of the subject in English..."
Library Journal
"...Fascinating and enthralling . . . it will long be regarded as the standard work on the subject..."
Church Times
Selected Publications:
Certaines Signes: The Iconography of Spenser’s Faerie Queene (Scolar Press, 1992)
The Emblem (Reduktion, 2002)
Contributed to:
The Emblems of Thomas Palmer: Sloane MS 3794 (introducer) (AMS Press, 1988)
Geffrey Whitney, A Choice of Emblemes (introducer) (Scolar Press, 1989)
Abraham Fraunce, Symbolicae Philosophiae (introducer and editor) (AMS Press, 1991)
The Art of the Emblem (co-editor) (AMS Press, 1993)
New Essays on Hamlet (co-editor) (AMS Press, 1994)
Emblemata: Lyons, 1550 by Andrea Alciato (introducer) (Scolar Press, 1996)
Critical Responses to "Hamlet": 1850-1899 v. 4, part. 2 (co-editor) (AMS Press, 2006)