Books & Reading

Move over Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Lovecraft - it's time to let the Scream Queens howl. In Sadie Hartmann's follow-up book to the Bram Stoker Award-winner 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered, horror fans will be delighted to discover a...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect investigates the material conditions of producing, distributing and consuming the postcolonial in the Internet era. Bridging the...

What is the role of the library in an increasingly complex information environment filled with and redesigned for artificial intelligence?Hope in the Library presents a compelling case for the continued relevance of libraries in an age increasingly...

What is the role of the library in an increasingly complex information environment filled with and redesigned for artificial intelligence?Hope in the Library presents a compelling case for the continued relevance of libraries in an age increasingly...

"Presents a number of important Americanist scholars doing substantial and thought-provoking work. These scholars rethink responses to canonical works and come to important new undertsandings of women's and African American writing...'Readers in History'...

This casebook on D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers is the first to address itself to the full text of the novel, first published in 1992. The introduction discusses the novel's composition and the range of approaches adopted by critics since its original...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433964472Author Alessandro BariccoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint AnagramaPublisher AnagramaWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 137mm * 15mm

Queer Print Cultures explores the intersections of queer studies, book history, and visual culture, challenging traditional narratives about printed objects and their cultural significance. This collection of essays examines how printed materials...

The complexity of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake ensures that it cannot be translated; rather, it can only be rewritten. These rewritings vary significantly, and the extent of their differences - both within individual target languages and across multiple...

This book recounts the history of an experimental regional library service in the early 1950s, a story that has implications far beyond the two Wisconsin counties where it took place. Using interviews and library records, Christine Pawley reveals the...

Diverting Authorities examines the glossing of a variety of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century texts by authors including Lydgate, Douglas, Chaloner, Baldwin, Bullein, Harington, and Nashe. It is concerned particularly with the use of glosses as a means...

This is a lively exploration of how non-fiction books have kept Americans learning long after leaving college. Over the past fifty years, knowledge of the natural world, history, and human behavior has expanded dramatically. What has been learned in the...

Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one's own narrow interpretive community. The distinguished essayists in this volume find Daniel R. Schwarz's...

A legendary editor's survey of the twentieth-century novel and how it shaped the fiction of the future'Edwin Frank's masterly account of the novel gone modern and the modern gone global is a critical history of the last literary century. Epic, personal,...

Information science was a burgeoning field in the early years of the Cold War, and while public and academic libraries acted as significant sites for the information boom, it is unsurprising that McCarthyism and censorship would shape what they granted...

The publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as both print culture and tourist culture expanded in the United States. As an emerging middle class increasingly...

How does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre? The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal answers this question by looking at the readers of some of the first Bengali novelists, including Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Mir Mosharraf Hossain. Moving...

An Open Access edition will be available on publication thanks to the kind sponsorship of the libraries participating in the Jisc Open Access Community Framework OpenUP initiative. Debates about reading in postcolonial studies rarely discuss...

Critical Games is about the games we play (whether we know it or not), the ways we play them (for fun, but also to win, and to gain approval from others), and what happens when they get out of hand. The book interrogates the theory of play and gaming,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780838913970Author Joanna M. BurkhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Association of College & Research LibrariesPublisher Association of College &...

The first computational study of reading to focus on audiobooks, this book uses a unique and substantial set of reader consumption data to show how audiobooks and digital streaming platforms affect our literary culture. Offering an academic perspective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913739027Author Karen AttarFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

In the first hundred years of the UK rail network, the seaside figures as a nerve centre, managing and making visible the period's complex interplay between health, death, gender and sexuality. This monograph discusses around 130 novels of the railway...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913739034Author Karen AttarFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

How is it that reading and writing can at once isolate us and bring us closer to others? Blending personal narrative with literary criticism, Emily Hodgson Anderson considers what a life spent with books has taught her about loneliness and human...

Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the...

Experimental Criticism offers a series of close critical engagements with one of the world's most innovative literary thinkers. Franco Moretti, author of such major works as Signs Taken for Wonders, The Way of the World, Modern Epic, Atlas of the...

How is it that reading and writing can at once isolate us and bring us closer to others? Blending personal narrative with literary criticism, Emily Hodgson Anderson considers what a life spent with books has taught her about loneliness and human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992725747Author Cynthia JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Institute of English StudiesPublisher Institute of English Studies

Discussing a wide range of literary theory in a clear and accessible way, prize-winning author Robert Scholes here continues his ongoing construction of a humane semiotic approach to the problems of reading, writing, and teaching. Taking the view that...

Originally published in 1929, The Process of Literature is a study of the art of letters considered from a new point of view, as a process of human activity rather than as a series of objects produced by that activity. It examines in detail "the process...

How ordinary forms of writing-including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines-shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire In Required Reading, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay offers a new and provocative history of reading that centers...

A legendary editor's survey of the twentieth-century novel and how it shaped the fiction of the future'Edwin Frank's masterly account of the novel gone modern and the modern gone global is a critical history of the last literary century. Epic, personal,...

How does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre? The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal answers this question by looking at the readers of some of the first Bengali novelists, including Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Mir Mosharraf Hossain. Moving...

From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstoresDo we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch-the...

Whether curled up on a sofa with a good mystery, lounging by the pool with a steamy romance, or brooding over a classic novel, Americans love to read. Despite the distractions of modern living, nothing quite satisfies many individuals more than a really...

When the first edition of David Madden's A Primer of the Novel: For Readers and Writers was published more than twenty-five years ago, there were no other books of its kind available. Since then, many authors and editors have produced works that attempt...

Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British "year of victories" during the Seven Years' War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of...

Proust, Pastiche, and the Postmodern, or Why Style Matters argues against the traditional view that Marcel Proust wrote pastiches, that is, texts that imitate the style of another author, to master his literary predecessors while sharpening his writerly...

An invaluable resource for students and teachers of children's literature, this book covers Newbery's work and achievements as a publisher and bookseller.Reviews...an excellent summary of Newbery's achievements as a publisher and bookseller.....