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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...

What does Ian McEwan have in common with Barbara Kingsolver? Or The Shack's William Paul Young with The Way the Crow Flies' Ann-Marie MacDonald? All four spent significant portions of their formative years overseas as expatriates; all four are third...

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The literary field of ecocriticism appraises texts from the perspective of the natural world, its biosystems, its animals (human and otherwise), and its ecological interconnections. Exploring a range of contemporary American novelists whose narratives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945492983Author Jon FosseFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Transit BooksPublisher Transit Books

Reading These United States explores the relationship between early American literature and federalism in the early decades of the republic. As a federal republic, the United States constituted an unusual model of national unity, defined by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684802398Author John WynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Fireside BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 654g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595243150Author Allen L ScarbroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781090907578Author J Lenni DornerFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781075506970Author Elinor MacedonFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 86g

This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, and the blockbuster mentality.Book InformationISBN...

In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America's Gilded Age who lost--and found--themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around...

British India and Victorian Culture extends current scholarship on the Victorian period with a wide-ranging and innovative analysis of the literature of British India.About the AuthorMaire ni Fhlathuin is a Lecturer in English Studies at the University...

From Gossip Girl to The Kite Runner a completely updated look at the history of censorship in world literature. Throughout history, nations, peoples, and governments have censored writers and their works on political, religious, sexual, and social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988396968Author Hal SacksFormat HardbackImprint Parke PressPublisher Parke PressWeight(grams) 517g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984767915Author Mark EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Cultural ConservationPublisher Cultural ConservationWeight(grams) 767gDimensions(mm)...

Between 1920 and 1958 Katherine Anne Porter published more than sixty-five book review, many of which are now largely inaccessible. Although several such pieces have appeared in earlier collections of Porter's nonfiction writings, never have so many of...

A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark explicates the intricacies of fiction writing through practical analysis of the resources of narration,...

Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping--even rediscovery--by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. As the richest record we have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692197677Author John GartlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Frog in the Mirror PressPublisher Frog in the Mirror PressWeight(grams)...

Wendy Lesser's new book is 'an inspired intellectual romp: part memoir, part criticism, though actually a bracing, larkish reinvention of them both' (Lawrence Weschler). Revisiting her favorite books after the passage of twenty or thirty years, Lesser is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615559124Author Michael NorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint New Street Communications, LLCPublisher New Street Communications, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595306510Author Cherie HarwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 100g

From one of our premier literary scholars, here is a learned and witty introduction to the "sheer vitality of literature and the satisfactions of a close, informed engagement with it" (New York Times). Robert Alter's illumination of the unique power of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062384348Author Mikita BrottmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991365203Author Marek BreigerFormat PaperbackImprint Valley Memories PressPublisher Valley Memories PressWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692388037Author Professor LLC Doctoral Program Craig SaperFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Roving Eye PressPublisher Roving Eye PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595319244Author Burton R PollinFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595318810Author Emanuel T ProstanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595273881Author Wells Earl DraughonFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 390g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312421847Author Francis SpuffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 135mm *...

In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Books, magazines, and newspapers were produced more quickly and more...

The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between...

Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern...

The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, ""outline"" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996734882Author B Alan BourgeoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Dear Indie, Inc.Publisher Dear Indie, Inc.Weight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983827054Author L James HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Noontide PressPublisher Noontide PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979589881Author Eric OlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Brightcity BooksPublisher Brightcity BooksWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312359898Author John SutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983827047Author L James HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Noontide PressPublisher Noontide PressWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...