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http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=501332 Please feel free to forward this on to interested colleagues, lists, and librarians. Bruce Danner Edmund Spenser’s War on Lord Burghley Bruce Danner Palgrave Macmillan (2011) ISBN-10: 0230299032 ISBN-13: 978-0230299030 List Price: $85.00 C'mon, David, this is just gross, and it's popuppy in spirit. That's not what people do on a discussion list, and we can't be expected to know and take account of the writer's status. On Oct 24, 2011, at 3:21 PM, David Miller wrote: > Let's face it, Harry, if you were to announce every book you publish on the listserv, we'd be deluged! :0) > > I am in favor of bearing with one another. Not that it hurts to state the conventions that govern the discourse, just that I'm with Julia on "let us be kind"--another convention of the discourse--especially when the announcement in question concerns the appearance of a first book from a scholar whose tenure was washed away by Katrina. > > I draw the line at pop-up ads for reputation-enlargement. > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Julia Staykova <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Andrew, I loved reading this. > > However, let us be kind in such matters. The Spenser Encyclopaedia post elicited plenty of highly encouraging responses, and in terms of sheer bulk took a lot more space than the single entry on the Complaints, albeit one that was a sales pitch. The minor discomfort of skipping tedious emails is part of the game. Perhaps a more important rule on subscription lists should be to avoid causing personal discomfort? > > Julia, a non-Spenserian Shakespearean. > > > > -- > David Lee Miller > Carolina Distinguished Professor of English > and Comparative Literature > Director, Center for Digital Humanities > University of South Carolina > Columbia, SC 29208 > (803) 777-4256 > FAX 777-9064 > [log in to unmask] > http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/people/pages/miller.html >