John T. Gilmore - Selected Publications#

[Note: Most of my earlier publications appeared under the name John Gilmore. Because of the increasing importance of internet searches and the like, I have been using my middle initial consistently for several years, and now publish as John T. Gilmore.]

(with C. M. Sean Carrington, Henry S. Fraser, and G. Addinton Forde), A to Z of Barbados Heritage, third edition (Barbados: Miller Publishing; forthcoming 2020), pp. 430 ISBN 978-976-96209-1-9.

Revised and enlarged edition of what has become the standard reference work on the history and culture of Barbados; previously published (by the same authors) as A-Z of Barbados Heritage (second edition, Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean, 2003) pp. xii, 244; ISBN 0-333-92068-6; and A-Z of Barbadian Heritage (first edition, Kingston, Jamaica: Heinemann Caribbean, 1990), pp. 212. ISBN 976-605-099-6.

Guillaume Massieu, Coffee: A Poem, Latin text with introduction, verse translation, and bibliographical note by Gilmore (Todmorden: Arc Publications, 2019), pp. 64. ISBNs: 978 1910345 79 5 (pbk); 978 1910345 80 1 (hbk); 978 1910345 81 8 (ebk).

“Taking a latitude: William Hay’s translations and imitations of Martial”. Palimpsestes: Revue de traduction, no. 31 (2018), pp. 90-103. ISSN 1148-8158 (paper); 2109-943X (online).

Satire (New Critical Idiom series), (London and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. ix, 205. Hardback (ISBN 9780415480819) and paperback (ISBN 9780415480826) editions.

“John Barclay’s ‘Camella’ poems: Ideas of race, beauty and ugliness in Renaissance Latin verse,” in Daniel Orrells, Gurminder K. Bhambra and Tessa Roynon, ed., African Athena: New Agendas (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 277-292. ISBN 978-0-19-959500-6.

“ ‘Sub herili venditur Hasta’: An early eighteenth-century justification of the Slave Trade by a colonial poet”, in Yasmin Haskell and Juanita Feros Ruys, ed., Latinity and Alterity in the Early Modern Period, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Volume 360 (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010), pp. 221-239. ISBN 978-0-86698-408-9.

Oxford Companion to Black British History (Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. xxvii, 562. ISBN 978-0-19-280439-6. General editor (with David Dabydeen and Cecily Jones), and contributor of forty-one entries, totalling over 20,000 words. Gilmore also contributed the Thematic Contents List (pp. xix-xxiv) and the Chronology (pp. 537-550).

Paperback edition 2008 (ISBN 978-0-19-923894-1). Republished in the Oxford Paperback Reference series, 2010 (ISBN 978-0-19-957877-1). Included in the online “Oxford reference” platform from Summer 2012.

“The British Empire and the Neo-Latin Tradition: The Case of Francis Williams,” in Barbara Goff, ed., Classics and Colonialism (London: Duckworth, 2005; ISBN 0-7156-3311-2), pp. 92-106

Edition of J. W. Orderson, Creoleana: Or, Social and Domestic Scenes and Incidents in Barbados in Days of Yore and the same author’s The Fair Barbadian and Faithful Black. pp. viii, 264 (Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean, 2002); ISBN 0-333-77606-2.

Edition of important early Caribbean novel (first published 1842), which is certainly the earliest novel by a Barbadian and possibly the first novel from the Anglophone Caribbean by someone demonstrably a native of the region, and a play performed in Barbados in 1832 which includes some of the lengthiest passages of Black Barbadian speech recorded from the slavery period, together with introduction (pp. 1-18) and notes (pp. 211-258).

The Poetics of Empire: A Study of James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane (London: Athlone Press, 2000); pp. x, 342. ISBN 0-485-11539-5 (HB), 0-485-12148-4 (PB).

Edition of major poem in the Georgic tradition in English (first published 1764), with substantial critical and biographical introduction (pp. 1-85) and extensive notes (pp. 213-311).