Télécharger le livre :  The Voluntary Libraries of Victorian Britain: Volume 2

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in Scotland and Wales in the late nineteenth century, but which were not supported by local taxation. They were effectually substitutes for...
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Parution : 2024-12-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Voluntary Libraries of Victorian Britain: Volume 1

This volume provides an examination of the kind of free (or nearly free) libraries which were available to the general public in England and Wales in the late nineteenth century, but which were not supported by local taxation. They were effectually substitutes for...
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Parution : 2024-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period

Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period illuminates the diverse ways that people in the British regional print trades exerted their agency through interventions in regional and national politics as well as their civic, commercial, and cultural...
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Parution : 2022-04-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature

The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature contends that the processes of enlightenment, modernization, and secularization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society were marked not by a reading revolution but rather by a writing revolution,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-03-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Preface

Building on insights from the fields of textual criticism, bibliography, narratology, authorship studies, and book history, The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century examines the role that prefaces played in the development of...
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Parution : 2021-11-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Marginal Notes

Marginal Notes: Social Reading and the Literal Margins offers an account of literary marginalia based on original research from a range of unique archival sources, from mid-16th-century France to early 20th-century Tasmania. Chapters examine marginal commentary from...
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Parution : 2021-03-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000

In Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700–2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects, fourteen scholars turn to the archives to challenge the way the history of modern encyclopedism has long been told. Rather than emphasizing successful...
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Parution : 2021-02-17
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Télécharger le livre :  The Contemporary Small Press

The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible addresses the contemporary literary small press in the US and UK from the perspective of a range of disciplines. Covering numerous aspects of small press publishing—poetry and fiction, children’s publishing, the...
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Parution : 2021-01-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing Manuals for the Masses

This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-12-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Novel as Network

The Novel as Network: Forms, Ideas, Commodities engages with the contemporary Anglophone novel and its derivatives and by-products such as graphic novels, comics, podcasts, and Quality TV. This collection investigates the meaning of the novel in the larger system of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender and Prestige in Literature

Gender and Prestige in Literature: Contemporary Australian Book Culture explores the relationship between gender, power, reputation and book publishing’s consecratory institutions in the Australian literary field from 1965-2015. Focusing on book reviews, literary...
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Parution : 2020-07-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Comparative Print Culture

Drawing on comparative literary studies, postcolonial book history, and multiple, literary, and alternative modernities, this collection approaches the study of alternative literary modernities from the perspective ofcomparative print culture. The...
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Parution : 2020-04-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

This book offers a new interpretation of the place of periodicals in nineteenth-century Ireland. Case studies of representative titles as well as maps and visual material (lithographs, wood engravings, title-pages) illustrate a thriving industry, encouraged, rather than...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-03-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel

Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-02-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Evolution of Editorial Style in Early Modern England

This book provides a historical study on the evolution of editorial style and its progress towards standardisation through an examination of early modern English style guides. The text considers the variety of ways authors, editors and printers directly implemented or...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-09-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture

This essay collection explores the cultural functions the printed book performs in the digital age. It examines how the use of and attitude toward the book form have changed in light of the digital transformation of American media culture. Situated at the crossroads of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-08-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Books Across Borders

Books Across Borders: UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945-1951 is a history of the emotional, ideological, informational, and technical power and meaning of books and libraries in the aftermath of World War II, examined through the cultural...
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Parution : 2019-06-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Representations of Book Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Imaginative Writing

This book is a contribution to the new field of literary studies which is informed by book history and takes interest in the intersection of the ideal and material aspects of literature. It studies the ways eighteenth-century English novels, plays and poems illustrated...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Conrad's Reading

This book aligns concepts and methods from book history with new literary research on a globally studied writer. An innovative three-part approach, combining close reading the evidence of reading, scrutiny of international book distribution circuits, and of Conrad's...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture

There has been a proliferation of literary festivals in recent decades, with more than 450 held annually in the UK and Australia alone. These festivals operate as tastemakers shaping cultural consumption; as educational and policy projects; as instantiations,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-09
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