By the time Ian Watt published The Rise of the Novel. in 1957, it was clear that many women novelists before Jane Austen had been overlooked in critical studies of literature and that some of them had been completely forgotten by the reading public. In this book, Brian Corman explores the question of how and why this came about. Corman provides a systematic survey of the reputations of early women novelists as canons of the novel developed over a period of roughly two hundred year...

The cultural highlights of the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714) have long been overlooked. However, recent scholarship, including the present volume, is demonstrating that Anne has been seriously underestimated, both as a person, and as a monarch, and that there was much cultural activity of note in what might be called an interim period, coming after the deaths of Dryden and Purcell but before the blossoming of Pope and Handel, after the glories of Baroque architecture but before the trium...

Revue Ciné-Bazar n°5 - Entretiens et interviewsArticle. Don Johnson, l’homme et la bête : A Boy and His Dog (Mathieu Germain)Dossier Jean-Pierre MockyEntretien Jean-Pierre MockyArticle. Réflexions d’un ex-chasseur de gueules (Christophe Bier)Article. Sexe, sang et stupeur. Quand Paul Naschy revisitait le Moyen Âge (Yohann Chanoir)Dossier Roger CormanEntretien Roger CormanArticle....

Roger Corman began producing low-budget films in 1954 and soon started directing the following year. Since then, he's produced over 500 films and directed 55. He's best known for his ability to create a movie with a tiny budget, within a very short timeframe, with ridiculous limitations, and still turn in a completed, entertaining piece. He once shot an entire studio film in 2-1/2 days between other commitments. Although he directed many films in many genres spanning decades, he's most ass...