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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615755588Author Casey S LeasureFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint Casey S. LeasurePublisher Casey S. LeasureWeight(grams) 463g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805083385Author Michael DirdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Owl Books,U.S.Publisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 160g

Today's critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that all but disappeared by the twentieth century. In this book, Jennifer Williamson argues that sentimentalism is alive and well in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759687639Author Ph.D. PatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 529g

Have you ever wondered why there are so many ""dumb blonde"" jokes - always about women? Or how Ivanhoe's childhood love, the ""flaxen Saxon"" Rowena, morphed into Marilyn Monroe? Between that season in 1847 when...

When readers jot down notes in their books, they reveal something of themselves-what they believe, what amuses or annoys them, what they have read before. But a close examination of marginalia also discloses diverse and fascinating details about the time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809531233Author S. T. JoshiFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 622g

"I believe that it is in our interest as individuals to become crafty readers, and in the interest of the nation to educate citizens in the craft of reading. The craft, not the art. . . . This book is about that craft."-from the Introduction...

Literature, literacy, and citizenship took on new and contested meanings in early twentieth-century Canada, particularly in frontier work camps. In this critical history of the reading camp movement, Jody Mason undertakes the first sustained analysis of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786883240Author Rachel W JacobsohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

Continuum Contemporaries give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997107197Author Andrew LatiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Mythoprint PublishingPublisher Mythoprint PublishingWeight(grams) 195g

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...

The emergence of digital technologies in the realm of archives has enlivened our understandings of archival materialities and lent a new intensity to our engagements with the archived page by prompting us to consider the potential of paper and the page...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791454688Author Cristina KirklighterFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Volumes of influence explores the work of a number of important books and key writers within the academic disciplines of politics and international relations. It revisits and re-evaluates some of the landmark or classic books in politics and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972322188Author James ComoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Winged Lion Press, LLCPublisher Winged Lion Press, LLCWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984767953Author Mark EvansFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Cultural ConservationPublisher Cultural ConservationWeight(grams) 939gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with...

Today's critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that all but disappeared by the twentieth century. In this book, Jennifer Williamson argues that sentimentalism is alive and well in the...

For over one hundred and fifty years, since its founding in 1843, Macmillan has been at the heart of British publishing. This collection of essays, representing recent research in the archives at the British library, examines the firms' astute business...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759688438Author Leonard R. N. AshleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 512g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807032558Author Rick AyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256930Author David M StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891124290Author Douglas L GraggFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Abilene Christian University PressPublisher Abilene Christian University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954493608Author Ronan CoghlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Excalibur Publishing,U.S.Publisher Excalibur Publishing,U.S.Weight(grams) 232g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972477284Author James A BerlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 398g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369372482Author Stuart KellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 971g

The eighteenth century has generally been understood as the Age of Print, when the new medium revolutionized the literary world and rendered manuscript culture obsolete. After Print, however, reveals that the story isn't so simple. Manuscript remained a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977790814Author Sascha TalmorFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982963302Author John GrangerFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Unlocking PressPublisher Unlocking PressWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393344929Author John BayleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 696Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 1007g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408241Author Kathleen R JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g

This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814214800Author Marco CaraccioloFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252024Author Kai MikkonenFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 503g

Amidst the other religious, political and technological changes in 17th-century England, the ready availability of printed books was the most significant sign of the disappearance of old ways of thinking. The ability to read granted new independence as...

Even the most well-read among us feel gaps in our knowledge. Former English majors or art students want to understand the monetary system; mathematicians or doctors just want a great novel. Travel sections in bookstores are full of authors ready to tell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759689077Author Leonard R. N. AshleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 301g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783510Author Diane OsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 176g