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Dr Robert Carver - all publications

Books: authored

• Carver, Robert H.F. (2007). The Protean Ass: The 'Metamorphoses' of Apuleius from Antiquity to the Renaissance'. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Carver, R., Bowie, F. & Davies, O. (1990). Hildegard of Bingen: An Anthology. London: SPCK.

Books: edited

• Carver, R. (1985). Public Books V: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose. Canberra: Dashwood Road Press.

Books: reviews

• Blevins, J. (2006). Catullan Consciousness and the Early Modern Lyric in England: From Wyatt to Donne. The Seventeenth Century
• Helms, L. (1999). Seneca by Candlelight and Other Stories of Renaissance Drama. Notes and Queries 46(2): 281-282.
• Binns, J. W. (1993). Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Latin Writings of the Age. Notes and Queries 40(1): 89-90.
• Martindale, C. & M. (1993). Shakespeare and the Uses of Antiquity: An Introductory Essay. Notes and Queries 40(1): 90-91.
• Chaudhuri, S. (1992). Renaissance Pastoral and its English Developments. Notes and Queries 39(4): 505-506.
• Nuttall, A. D. (1991). The Stoic in Love: Selected Essays on Literature and Ideas. Notes and Queries 38(2): 238-239.
• Martindale, C. (1990). Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Notes and Queries 37(1): 79-80.
• Porter, Peter. (1989). A Porter Selected and Possible Worlds. Oxford Poetry IV.

Edited works: contributions

• Carver, R. (2002). Contributed 59 new entries to the Renaissance section (1474-1599). In The Oxford Chronology of English Literature Volume 1. Cox, Michael. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1: 3-62.
• Carver, R. (2001). 'Quis ille? The Role of the Prologue in Apuleius’ Nachleben.'. In A Companion to the Prologue of Apuleius’ ‘Metamorphoses’. Kahane, Ahuvia. & Laird, Andrew. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 163-174.

Essays in edited volumes

• Carver, Robert H.F. (2013). 'Defacing God's Work: Metamorphosis and the "Mimicall Asse" in the Age of Shakespeare' (Chapter 7). In Transformative Change in Western Thought: A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood. Gildenhard, Ingo. & Zissos, Andrew Legenda: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing. 273-306.
• Carver, Robert HF (2013). 'Of Donkeys and D(a)emons: Metamorphosis and the Literary Imagination from Apuleius to Augustine' (Chapter 5). In Transformative Change in Western Thought: A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood. Gildenhard, Ingo & Zissos, Andrew Legenda: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing. 222-251.
• Carver, Robert HF (2010). ‘8.3: Prose Satire’ contribution to Chapter 8 'Prose Fiction'. In The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Volume II: 1550-1660. Braden, Gordon, Cummings, Robert & Gillespie, Stuart Oxford University Press. 2: 358-370.
• Carver, R. (1999). 'The Rediscovery of the Latin Novels'. In Latin Fiction: The Latin Novel in Context. Hofmann, Heinz. London: Routledge. 253-268.

Journal papers: academic

• Carver, R. (2001). ‘“True Histories” and “Old Wives’ Tales” Renaissance Humanism and the “Rise of the Novel.”’. Ancient Narrative. 1: 322-349.
• Carver, R. (2001). ''True Histories' and 'Old Wives Tales': Renaissance Humanism and the 'Rise of the Novel'.'. Ancient Narrative. 1: 322-349.
• Carver, R. (1998). 'Transformed in Show': The Rhetoric of Transvestism in Sidney's Arcadia. English Literary Renaissance 28: 323-352.
• Carver, R. (1998). A New Source for Sidney's Arcadia: Pierio Valeriano's Leucippus (Text, Translation, and Commentary). English Literary Renaissance 28: 353-371.
• Carver R (1997). ''Sugared Invention' or 'Mongrel Tragi-comedy': Sir Philip Sidney and the Ancient Novel', in Groningen Colloquia on the Novel, vol. 8, ed. H. Hofmann and M. Zimmerman. Groningen Colloquia on the Novel 197-226.
• Carver, R. (1994). 'Sidney's Emperors'. Notes and Queries 41(1): 29-30.
• Carver, R. (1994). 'Valiant Aristomenes': A Messenian Hero in Sidney’s Old Arcadia. Notes and Queries 41(1): 26-28.
• Carver, R. (1989). 'Serviles voluptates and The Golden Ass of Apuleius: A Defence of Fotis'. 55-56.
• Carver, R. (1984). 'The Two Didos: A Comparison of Marlowe’s Dido, Queene of Carthage with Vergil’s Aeneid, Books I–IV'. Primitiae: A Journal of Classical Studies (4): 79-100.