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Butlers
What if your maitre d' died twenty years ago? Something is not quite right about Stephanie's new partner in the restaurant business. Frankie is turning Butlers into London's most frequented venue, but that doesn't stop her worrying. About who he is, and the hold he has over the restaurant's owner. About his connection with the Brockenhurst family tragedy. About the bizarre accidents that have started happening in her upscale restaurant. But most worrying of all is Stephanie's suspicion that Butlers would not survive without Frankie. So why worry about details when this is the only part of her life thats successful? Set in London before the financial crisis, Butlers will appeal to lovers of food, luxury, celebrities and dysfunctional families. A romantic comedy with a strong mystery at its heart, it is the debut novel from an exciting new female writer who is one to watch.
Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography that navigates the vast scholarly resources on the composer with the most updated compilation since 1989. Claudio Monteverdi transformed and mastered the principal genres of his day and his works influenced generations of musicians and other artists. He initiated one of the most important aesthetic debates of the era by proposing a new relationship between poetry and harmony. In addition to scholarship by musicologists and music theorists, Monteverdi’s music has attracted attention from literary scholars, cultural historians, and critical theorists. Research into Monteverdi and Renaissance and early baroque studies has expanded greatly, with the field becoming more complex as scholars address such issues as gender theory, feminist criticism, cultural theory, new criticism, new historicism, and artistic and popular cultures. The guide serves both as a foundational starting point and as a gateway for future inquiry in such fields as court culture, opera, patronage, and Italian poetry.
Dante the Lyric and Ethical Poet
"This book presents the proceedings of the fifth meeting of the International Dante Seminar. As with previous volumes, the proceedings also include a carefully edited account of the extensive discussions which followed the presentations. The papers, given by some of the leading international scholars of the poet - from Italy, the UK and the USA - address four major topics of particular concern to present-day Dante studies: Dante as a lyric poet; Dante as an ethical poet; Dante and the Eclogues; and Dante in nineteenth-century Britain. These topics reflect both areas which are currently the subject of heated critical debate (several editions of the lyric poems are in preparation, and the ethi...
Somerset Wills II
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