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The second issue of Portuguese Studies for 2023. Portuguese Studies is a peer-reviewed biannual multi-disciplinary journal devoted to research on the cultures, literatures, history and societies of the Lusophone world.

Sixteen years in advance of her widely approved translation of Jewel's Latin Apologia, Anne Cooke introduced a selection of sermons (Prediche) of the former Vicar General of the Capuchins, Bernardino Ochino, to an English readership. The 'Italian Luther', who had refused a summons to appear before Pope Paul III, and fled Italy to Geneva and then Augsburg, had landed in England at the invitation of Archbishop Cranmer in December 1547. Less than a year after his arrival, Sermons of Barnardine Ochine of Sena was printed without the name of the translator, and three years thereafter, Fouretene Sermons of Barnadine Ochyne, concernyng the predestinacion and eleccion of God. Translated out of Italian in to oure natyve tounge by A. C. appeared. Proving her aptitude for translation and eagerness to spread the word of the popular and prolific Italian evangelist, her work on the nineteen sermons forcefully articulates Evangelical and Spirituali tenets: the nature and excellence of antecedent election, lively and deep-seated faith that precedes works, rich citations of biblical texts to buttress claims, a heterodox endorsement of inner spirituality and practical activity, and freedom from obedience to Rome. Two distinct yet curiously similar temperaments blend in these translations. With limited contacts in English, the tormented sixty-year-old truth seeker had thrown off the Capuchin hood and devoted himself to writing. The capable, serious young noblewoman, who fervently espoused the Reform cause, experienced the need to prove and announce herself in a consciously homiletic mode.

The first issue of Portuguese Studies for 2023. Portuguese Studies is a peer-reviewed biannual multi-disciplinary journal devoted to research on the cultures, literatures, history and societies of the Lusophone world.

In May 1760 the Comédie-Française performed a play by Charles Palissot de Montenoy entitled Les Philosophes (The Philosophes), an attack on the group of writers known by that name. In the audience was Michel-Jean Sedaine, who, although not a member of the group himself, was sufficiently shocked by this attack on serious authors and thinkers to decide that he should write a reply to Palissot's work. At least in part because the use of the controversial subject of duelling on which the plot is centred caused problems with the censors, Le Philosophe sans le savoir did not reach the stage until 1765, but, when it was at last performed, it proved to be a great success. Although Sedaine usually wrote libretti for operas-comiques, for his new play he chose a genre pioneered by Diderot, one of the writers attacked in Les Philosophes, the drame. Sedaine's play has been generally recognized as the masterpiece of this short-lived genre. As well as looking at the play itself, the introduction to this translation examines its place in the literary controversy sparked by Palissot's play, and the origins and development of the drame.

Over the course of his prolific life, the playwright Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) wrote several plays based on works by Shakespeare. This volume brings together two very different adaptations of Shakespearean tragedies, written within two years of each other. Le Vieillard et ses trois filles (1792), in line with eighteenth-century French aesthetic and political tastes, strips the masterpiece King Lear of all its regal trappings and complex subplots to produce a pared-down three-act bourgeois 'drame' about a father who foolishly surrenders his fortune to his mercenary daughters, before an unexpected (and un-Shakespearean) happy ending. Timon d'Athènes (1794), conversely, follows the plot of Timon of Athens rather more closely, tracing its protagonist's shift from profligate socialite to bitter, misanthropic outcast; Mercier, however, accentuates the political dimension of Timon's bankruptcy, exile, and eventual suicide as an implicit critique of the violence and abuses of the post-Revolutionary Reign of Terror. What both plays have in common is a narrative arc leading from generosity exploited, via disillusionment and despair, to a misanthropic attempt to escape from civilisation altogether. This edition offers explanatory footnotes comparing the texts with the Shakespearean originals, and an introduction outlining Mercier's complex contributions to eighteenth-century Shakespeare reception in France.

The 2022 volume of Austrian Studies examines the implications of the now well-established theoretical paradigm of the Anthropocene - the current geological epoch, in which humans are leaving an indelible trace on the fabric of the planet - for research on Austrian literature and culture.

The July 2022 issue of Modern Language ReviewContentsCoincidence in Edgar Allan Poe and Jakub ArbesEarthly and Eternal Cities in Tennyson's IdyllsThe Belgian Contribution to French Decadent AestheticsFictions of the Zola TrialPre-Petrarchan Vernacular Authors in Fifteenth-Century ItalyThe Gunpowder Plot in Early Modern German TextsBridal Mysticism in Early Modern UkraineBook reviews

The first issue of Portuguese Studies for 2022. Portuguese Studies is a peer-reviewed biannual multi-disciplinary journal devoted to research on the cultures, literatures, history and societies of the Lusophone world.

Chantal Akerman was one of the most significant directors of our times. A radical innovator of cinematic forms, she was at the forefront of feminist and women's filmmaking. In the 1990s, she developed an important installation practice and began to experiment with self-writing.Focusing on Akerman's works of the last two decades, a period during which she diversified her creative practice, this collection traces her artistic trajectory across different media. From her documentaries 'bordering on fiction' to her final installation, NOW, the volume elucidates the thematic and aesthetic concerns of the later works, placing particular emphasis on self-portraiture, the exploration of intimacy, and the treatment of trauma, memory and exile. It also attends to the aural and visual textures that underpin her art. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches as well as engaging more creatively with Akerman's work, the essays provide a new optic for understanding this deeply personal, prescient oeuvre.Marion Schmid is Professor of French Literature and Film at the University of Edinburgh. Emma Wilson is Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge.

The second issue of Portuguese Studies for 2021 is a special issue entitled Literatures and Cultures of the Indian Ocean,edited by Ana Mafalda Leite, Elena Brugioni and Jessica Falconi, including articles and book reviews.