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Imagining Otherwise: How Readers Help to Write Nineteenth-Century Novels Debra Gettelman 9780691260419
RRP: £84.00£65.69How Victorian authors engaged the imaginations of their readers and elevated the novel to new heightsAs novel publication exploded in nineteenth-century Britain, writers such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot learned from... -
Imagining Otherwise: How Readers Help to Write Nineteenth-Century Novels Debra Gettelman 9780691260426
RRP: £25.00£19.59How Victorian authors engaged the imaginations of their readers and elevated the novel to new heightsAs novel publication exploded in nineteenth-century Britain, writers such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot learned from... -
Making the literary-geographical world of Sherlock Holmes: The game is afoot David McLaughlin 9781837721658
RRP: £80.00£68.00In the second half of the twentieth century, American readers of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories – known as Sherlockians – worked together to create a ‘world of Sherlock Holmes’ that crossed the boundary between reality and fiction. This... -
Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel Edwin Frank 9781911717201
RRP: £25.00£21.25A 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,... -
The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal: Becoming Readers in Colonial India Prof. or Dr. Sunayani Bhattacharya 9781501398506
RRP: £28.99£24.64How 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... -
In Praise of Good Bookstores Jeff Deutsch 9780691229652
RRP: £13.99£11.89From 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... -
The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries Andrew Hui 9780691243320
RRP: £25.00£21.25A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the... -
The Philosophy of Translation Damion Searls 9780300247374
RRP: £20.00£17.00A deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners Avoiding theoretical debates and clichéd metaphors, award-winning translator Damion Searls has written a fresh, approachable, and convincing account of what... -
Closely and Consciously: Reading and the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement Yung-Hsing Wu 9781625348463
RRP: £28.95£24.61The significant archive of writing that came out of the women’s liberation movement in the United States, from 1965 to 1980, speaks to the value activists placed on reading as an act that is at once personal and yet also about the collective good... -
Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels across the World of Literature John McMurtrie 9780691266398
RRP: £25.00£18.55A beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twenty-five hundred yearsFrom Homer’s Odyssey, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Cervantes’s Don Quixote to Melville’s... -
From Paragraphs to Plots: Architecture of the Novel Matthew Clark 9780807183328
£30.75The novel has often been characterized as the art form without a form. Although there may not be any rules for how to write a novel, as Matthew Clark shows in his new work of practical analysis, a good novel is as carefully formed as a good poem.From... -
Closely and Consciously: Reading and the U.S. Women's Liberation Movement Yung-Hsing Wu 9781625348470
RRP: £85.00£72.25The significant archive of writing that came out of the women’s liberation movement in the United States, from 1965 to 1980, speaks to the value activists placed on reading as an act that is at once personal and yet also about the collective good... -
Making World Literature: Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States since 1890 Anna Muenchrath 9781625348418
RRP: £85.00£72.25From universities to governments, the Big Five publishers to Amazon, the influence of institutions abounds in US publishing. A diverse array of books from around the globe have been made into world literature in the US, selected by editors, publishers,... -
Tasting and Testing Books: Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading Amy L. Blair 9781625348210
RRP: £85.00£72.25In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers called “Tasting and Testing Books.” The column’s author, Emily Newell Blair, would go on to produce ninety-one reading advice columns... -
Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive: Objects, Institutions, and Practices between the Analogue and the Digital Tim Sommer 9781032558271
RRP: £130.00£110.50Modern literary archives play a key role in how authors’ lives and works get canonized and consecrated as cultural heritage. This interdisciplinary volume combines literary studies, book history, textual criticism, heritage studies, archival theory, and... -
Making World Literature: Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States since 1890 Anna Muenchrath 9781625348401
RRP: £29.95£25.46From universities to governments, the Big Five publishers to Amazon, the influence of institutions abounds in US publishing. A diverse array of books from around the globe have been made into world literature in the US, selected by editors, publishers,... -
Domestic Architecture, Literature and the Sexual Imaginary in Europe, 1850 1930 Aina Marti-Balcells 9781474463089
RRP: £19.99£18.38This book sheds light on the contributions of architecture and its literary representations to a series of changes taking place in sexual culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, England, Germany and Austria. By... -
Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers Kristopher Jansma 9781683693734
RRP: £17.99£15.29If you like to write whether it s a pastime, a passion, or a profession you ve probably found yourself reading something brilliant and thinking, I could never do this! I might as well give up. But if there s one thing every great author has in common, it... -
From Paragraphs to Plots: Architecture of the Novel Matthew Clark 9780807182512
£46.16The novel has often been characterized as the art form without a form. Although there may not be any rules for how to write a novel, as Matthew Clark shows in his new work of practical analysis, a good novel is as carefully formed as a good poem.From... -
Tasting and Testing Books: Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading Amy L. Blair 9781625348203
RRP: £29.95£25.46In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers called “Tasting and Testing Books.” The column’s author, Emily Newell Blair, would go on to produce ninety-one reading advice columns... -
On Fiction and Being a Good Animal David Rando 9781399538053
RRP: £75.00£63.75Instead of making readers into better people, what if fiction could help us to become better animals? On Fiction and Being a Good Animal argues that we should abandon the persistent humanist idea that fiction can produce better people. Instead, we should...