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Note: This text is an almost exact copy of the Introductory matter for the thesis, and for the Bibliographical Appendix from my English Ph.D. dissertation. It consists of the following items: Title Page [minus signature lines], Abstract, Table of Contents for Thesis, List of Figures, Table of Contents for the Summaries [not in original thesis], a brief Introduction to the Bibliographical Appendix, a [revised] Table of Contents for the Bibliography.
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1. {ii} In this study I present an analysis of the structures of four works by Sir Thomas More: The History of Richard III, the 'Dialogue of Counsel' in Book I of Utopia, The Dialogue Concerning Heresies, and The Dialogue of Comfort in Tribulation. My basic thesis is that Thomas More was a superb literary artist and a master of the art of literary dialogue, and that beneath the often apparently rambling and digressive surface of each of these literary works, there is a 'deep structure' that is highly coherent and even tightly organised. I also show that More's use of dialogue in each of the three dialogues is genuinely dialectical---that the individual speakers in the three literary dialogues make a genuine contribution to the development of the argument---and that the movement from speaker to speaker in the History of Richard III is also genuinely dialectical---anticipating the art of the three later dialogues. To this end I have provided an interpretive reading/analysis of each of the works, focussing on More's "art of dialogue" in the passages of direct and indirect speech in Richard III, and in the dialogues between Hythloday and Persona More in Book I of Utopia, between Chancellor More and the Messenger in the Dialogue Concerning Heresies, and between Vincent and Anthony in the Dialogue of Comfort. The thesis also includes a major bibliographical appendix, consisting of about two thousand items of More scholarship organised according to topic. (The Bibliography is quite comprehensive covering all of More's works and also background studies and biographies.) The appendix is provided both as part of my argument and as a tool for further research.
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The Bibliography is organised into two (or three) major sections: A. Studies of More's Works and B. General Background Studies and Biographies. [N.B. In the revised electronic version, the Utopia Bibliography is treated as a separate major section.] For each of More's works in Section A, and for the early biographies and the plays in Section B, the bibliography is further divided into two or more sections: Editions and Translations (and Selections where appropriate) where the various volumes of the Yale Edition and other editions and translations are cited, and Studies, which lists secondary studies of the individual works. For some of the works, such as Utopia and the History of Richard III, the studies are divided into subtopics (about fifty [sixty in electronic edition] in the case of Utopia). The bibliography was compiled from direct searches of selected journals, including the journal of More studies, Moreana (1963--), tracing citations in the footnotes of articles, serendipitous browsing in library stacks, and, of course, other bibliographies. I have occasionally consulted F. Sullivan's 1946 checklist Moreana, 1478--1945 (see item [A.22] in the Bibliography). I have also made use of the two "Recent Studies on More," by Judith Jones and A. J. Geritz, in English Literary Renaissance (items [A.12] and [A.14]). However, I was unable to consult F. and M. P. Sullivan's Moreana: Materials for the Study of St. Thomas More (1964--71) (item [A.23]). Besides containing almost two thousand citations, the bibliography also includes three to four hundred reviews and a similar number of summaries and abstracts in the annotations to the citations. I have also sometimes added annotations of my own.
The bibliography included in this Appendix contains only a third of the total bibliography (about five to six thousand items) on More, Erasmus, the Northern Renaissance, and the early English Renaissance and Reformation (to 1580), that I have accumulated over the last five years. While I hope to publish at least part of this bibliography in print, my plan, if I can get funding from the appropriate granting bodies (SSHRCC or NEH), would be to make the bibliographies available electronically either via INTERNET or CD-ROM. The electronic versions of the bibliographies would include, where possible, either summaries and/or extracts from reviews, or at least brief annotations. I wish to express in a special way my gratitude for the patient and very professional help I have received from the Inter-Library Loan and Circulation divisions of the UBC Library in compiling this bibliography.
[N.B. In the HTML version of my thesis, the bibliography has been subdivided into three files, each with a separate Table of Contents, and Index of Names. The links below are to the three files. The Utopia Bibliography was originally inserted in the list below (Part A) between sections A.3 and A.4. It was subsequently published in a heavily revised format in EMLS 1.2 (Aug. 1995): 6.1-10. (<URL:http://unixg.ubc.ca:7001/0/e-sources/emls/01-2/lakomore.html>) The links below are to the published bibliography in EMLS 1.2. Due to a last minute editorial change the positions of the entries for the Richard III bibliography are now out of order numerically. Section A.3 was originally the designation for the Utopia Bibliography. It is now being used as the designation for the Richard III Bibliography, which has been moved to after the subsections on More's Correspondence (but not renumbered).
In the original bibliography included in Appendix A of my thesis, the above Introduction was followed by a separate Table of Contents for the entire bibliography with the bibliographical items numbered consecutively. (In the Table of Contents below the items in the three files are numbered separately, they can be referred to, if so wished, using the letters A, U, and B, e.g. A.175, U.153, B.299.) The Table of Contents was followed in turn by a Table of Journal Abbreviations, and then by the Bibliography proper. A version of the Table of Abbreviations for Utopia Bibliography in HTML Definition List format was included with the Utopia Bibliography in EMLS 1.2. A revised version of the Table of Abbreviations for the Thomas More Bibliography that uses HTML Table extensions has been included with the thesis. In preparing the Utopia Bibliography for publication in EMLS, I extensively revised the Utopia section in the Summer of 1995, adding about 50% more items. At the same time I revised the remainder of the More Bibliography, though less heavily, adding 10% to the rest, for an overall increase of 16%. I used the same computer program that I wrote to format the Utopia Bibliography to also format the remaining two files. The revised Table of Contents and the Index of Names for each Bibliography file were generated automatically by the program I wrote.]
This document is copyright (c) 1996 by Romuald Ian Lakowski, all rights reserved. All sections of Interactive EMLS (iEMLS) and iEMLS as a whole are copyright (c) 1996 by Early Modern Literary Studies, all rights reserved, and may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-use provisions of U.S. copyright law. Archiving and redistribution for profit, or republication of this text in any medium, requires the consent of the copyright holder and the Editor of EMLS.
