4.0074 Queries (84)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sat, 19 May 90 19:00:42 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0074. Saturday, 19 May 1990.


(1) Date: 18 May 90 15:40:10 EDT (Fri) (13 lines)
From: Yvonne Cederholm <cederholm@hum.gu.se>
Subject: Old English fonts

(2) Date: Fri, 18 May 90 14:04:19 MDT (24 lines)
From: nye@UWYO.BITNET (Eric W Nye)
Subject: Query for HUMANIST

(3) Date: Fri, 18 May 90 15:04:14 PLT (9 lines)
From: Paul Brians <HRC$04@WSUVM1>
Subject: Mapplethorpe

(4) Date: Fri, 18 May 90 20:39:36 EDT (27 lines)
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Milton and Sylvester/Du Bartas?

(5) Date: Fri, 18 May 90 15:27:35 CDT (11 lines)
From: GA0708@SIUCVMB
Subject: spouse abuse

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Date: 18 May 90 15:40:10 EDT (Fri)
From: Yvonne Cederholm <cederholm@hum.gu.se>
Subject: Old English fonts

I was asked by a collegue at the English departement if there is some
font for Old English (for the Macintosh), including thorn, eth, yoch,
and ash. Could anyone help me out?

Yvonne Cederholm
cederholm@hum.gu.se
Faculty of Arts
Computing Service Centre
University of Gothenburg
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Date: Fri, 18 May 90 14:04:19 MDT
From: nye@UWYO.BITNET (Eric W Nye)
Subject: Query for HUMANIST

I was reminded for the umpteenth time recently how the humanities endure
poverty in the modern university. I needed to extract from Chadwyck-
Healey's _British Library General Cat. of Printed Books to 1975_ (3 CD-
ROMs) about 250 titles issued by a certain early 19th C publisher. Our
most sympathetic librarian told me I could wait 'til the cows come home,
but that $16,400 for the three disks would not be forthcoming. $16,400
is less than it costs to replace defunct lab equipment after the power
mysteriously hiccups on a clear spring day. Vice Presidents may raise
eyebrows at such costs in the sciences, but they won't leave those cows
standing in the field.

Thus, I am now finishing a gruelling episode of compiling by hand and eye
a simulacram of the same list from Peddie's _English Catalogue of Books,
1801-1836_. It can be nowhere near as accurate, despite long hours of
concentration. Let me weakly ask fellow HUMANISTs whether any of their
libraries has managed to acquire the British Library Catalogue on CD, and
if so, whether a search on a publisher field can be commissioned from
afar. I'd like to compare mine with such a list. Most gratefully,

Eric W. Nye, Dept. of English, Univ. of Wyoming (NYE@UWYO), 307-766-3244
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Date: Fri, 18 May 90 15:04:14 PLT
From: Paul Brians <HRC$04@WSUVM1>
Subject: Mapplethorpe

For a research project on the NEA/Mapplethorpe controversy I need to
know of any recent especially notable articles (say from the last three
months) giving a good overview or more detail than is provided in the
sort of harrumphing editorials everybody's been printing. I would be
grateful for any suggestions, sent to me direct (I'm in rather a hurry).
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Date: Fri, 18 May 90 20:39:36 EDT
From: Willard McCarty <MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Milton and Sylvester/Du Bartas?

The following query was sent to me. Can anyone help this person out? If
so, please reply directly to the questioner, who is not on Humanist.

Willard McCarty
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Date Thu, 17 MAY 90 13:41:38 BST
>From UHLF021@VAX.RHBNC.AC.UK

I am interested in links between Sylvester/Du Bartas and Milton. I would
be very grateful if you could let me know of any texts available in this
area (excluding those in the Oxford Text Archive). I particularly need
to acquire versions of the Divine Weeks of Sylvester.

Many thanks,

(Dr) Noel HEATHER
Arts Computing Officer
Royal Holloway & Bedford New College
University of London
Egham Hill, Egham, UK

e-mail: n.heather@uk.ac.rhbnc.vax
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Date: Fri, 18 May 90 15:27:35 CDT
From: GA0708@SIUCVMB
Subject: spouse abuse

My wife has been collecting stories about spouse abuse. (Ever since she
stoppe d abusing me, she wants to read about it.) If anyone has run
across any short fiction dealing with that subject involving either sex
abusing the other, she w ould appreciate some titles. One story in
particular that she is trying to locate is one she thinks is entitled
"Sweat," by Hurston (I'm not sure of the spelling. Herb Donow Southern
Illinois University