Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. Makes use of illustrative exa...
Description: From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. Makes use of illustrative exa...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. Makes use of illustrative...
Author: Stevenson, R. L. Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: THESE studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the NEW QUARTERLY, one in MACMILLAN'S, and the rest in the CORNHILL MAGAZINE. To the CORNHILL I owe a double debt of thanks; first, ...
Description: In 1957, Richard Altick's groundbreaking work The English Common Reader transformed the study of book history. Inspired by Altick's research, but digging deep into the neglected records of prison lib...
Author: III, James Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 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, a...
Description: This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human ...
Author: Snyder, Katherine V. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Katherine Snyder's study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little recognized figure in premodernist and modernist fiction by male authors, including Hawthorne, James,...
Author: Herbert, Marilyn Publisher: Bookclub-in-a-Box Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: It's 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi, and 22-year-old Skeeter has just graduated from Ole Miss. She comes home with a diploma, but no husband, in a world where her friends are all married and raising chi...
Author: Herbert, Marilyn Publisher: Bookclub-in-a-Box Format: Adobe PDF
Description: It's 1962 in Jackson, Mississippi, and 22-year-old Skeeter has just graduated from Ole Miss. She comes home with a diploma, but no husband, in a world where her friends are all married and raising chi...
Author: Manning, Sean / Bradbury, Ray Publisher: DaCapo Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bound to Last, an array of writers come to the passionate defense of the printed book with spirited, never-before-published essays celebrating the hardcover or paperback that matters most to them-not ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe establishes new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Beecher Stowe's writing and life. This collection of specially commissioned e...
Author: Stevenson Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe PDF
Description: THESE studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the NEW QUARTERLY, one in MACMILLAN;S, and the rest in the CORNHILL MAGAZINE. To the CORNHILL I owe a double debt of thanks; first, ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Parlor Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Faulkner from Within: Destructive and Generative Being in the Novels of William Faulkner is the culmination of William H. Rueckert's lifetime of study of this great American novelist. Rueckert tracks ...
Author: Chartier, Roger Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Forms and Meanings, Chartier explores what effect changes in form will have on the way we come to know texts in the future, placing his projections within a larger historical perspective that spans...
Author: Shillingsburg, Peter L. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As technologies for electronic texts develop into ever more sophisticated engines for capturing different kinds of information, radical changes are underway in the way we write, transmit and read text...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Science Reference Format: Adobe PDF
Description: While emerging information and internet ubiquitous technologies provide tremendous positive opportunities, there are still numerous vulnerabilities associated with technology. Attacks on computer sys...
Author: Graham, Sarah Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951) is a twentieth-century classic. Despite being one of the most frequently banned books in America, generations of readers have identified with the narrator...
Author: Van Doren, Charles Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Charles Van Doren has laid a feast before all of us that is irresistible. Mortimer J. AdlerThis engaging love letter to reading follows the great authors and classics that transformed the world:...
Author: Lupton, Christina Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Knowing Books examines a variety of eighteenth-century sources that deploy language to emphasize their status as physical objects and their circulation as commodities. In Lupton's account, these texts...
Author: Price, Robert M. Publisher: eBookIt.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a series of papers presented mainly at the Book of Mormon Round Table. It lays out a case for considering the Mormon scripture as the work of Joseph Smith in the nineteenth century, not a...
Description: This theoretical and empirical study explores what happens in the minds of engaged readers when they read literature. It considers the roles that the text, the reading context, cognition, and emotion ...
Author: Bennett, Arnold Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was a British writer. He went to work for his father but was unhappy working for his father and earning very little money. The theme of parental miserliness occurs in his ...
Author: Bennett, Arnold Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead™ are optimized by increasin...
Author: FITCH, GEORGE HAMLIN Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This edifying book analyzes the most memorable classics of English Literature in a befitting and gracious manner. Fitch studies and discusses several celebrated authors and their brilliant masterpiece...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What is criticism supposed to do? Is polemic a legitimate face of criticism, or simply its excess? What does it mean to read critically or uncritically? As Jane Gallop writes in her introduction to "P...
Author: Joshi, S. T. Publisher: Hippocampus Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: S. T. Joshi, the world's leading authority on Lovecraft, has written a substantial number of articles on Lovecraft-biographical, critical, philosophical, and bibliographical-over the 25 years in which...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Reading Women brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of gender in the production and consumption of texts during the expansion of female...
Author: Berlin, James A. Publisher: Parlor Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures is James Berlin's most comprehensive effort to refigure the field of English Studies. Here, in his last book, Berlin both historically situates and recovers for today ...
Author: Burkhardt, Joanna M. / MacDonald, Mary C. Publisher: ALA Editions Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Perfect for a full semester course or a single focused seminar or workshop, these 50 lessons show how to engage with electronic and print information resources alike.
Author: Price, Leah Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel brings together two traditionally antagonistic fields, book history and narrative theory, to challenge established theories of 'the rise of the novel'. Leah Pri...
Author: Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Did the white male author become an endangered - and more valued - being once television's female, non-white audience (supposedly) wrote the novel's obituary?
Author: N/A Publisher: World Audience, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The audience Review features reviews of plays on Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off Broadway, and regional theater, as well as reviews of literature and poetry, and other informative critiques. The Revi...
Description: An in-depth analysis of various languages and their literature is presented here. Going through their history, Curtis explains how they developed and evolved through time. The book also studies the ch...
