Bound to Read

Jeffrey Todd Knight

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• Concealed in rows of carefully restored volumes in rare book libraries is a history of the patterns of book collecting and compilation that shaped the... Lees meer

The Fabrication of American Literature

Lara Langer Cohen

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• Literary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and ... Lees meer

Hitler's Face

Claudia Schmölders

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• In Hitler's Face Claudia Schmölders reverses the normal protocol of biography: instead of using visual representations as illustrations of a life, she... Lees meer

Voice in Motion

Gina Bloom

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• Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice ... Lees meer

Knowing Books

Christina Lupton

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• The eighteenth century has long been associated with realism and objective description, modes of representation that deemphasize writing. But in the m... Lees meer

The Venetian Qur'an

Pier Mattia Tommasino

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• An anonymous book appeared in Venice in 1547 titled L'Alcorano di Macometto , and, according to the title page, it contained "the doctrine, life, cust... Lees meer

Used Books

William H Sherman

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• In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displ... Lees meer

Reading the Qur'ān in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560

Thomas E Burman

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• Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Most of what we know about attitudes toward Islam in the medieval and early modern West h... Lees meer

Star Territory

Gordon Fraser

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• The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites ... Lees meer

The Mind Is a Collection

Sean Silver

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• John Locke described the mind as a cabinet; Robert Hooke called it a repository; Joseph Addison imagined a drawer of medals. Each of these philosopher... Lees meer

Pens and Needles

Susan Frye

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• The Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or the middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and painting, which ... Lees meer

Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls

Sarah L Leonard

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• Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls investigates the creation of "obscene writings and images" as a category of print in nineteenth-century Germany. Sa... Lees meer

Queer Philologies

Jeffrey Masten

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• For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In Queer Philologies , he studies particular terms th... Lees meer

Historical Style

Timothy Campbell

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• Historical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eighteen... Lees meer

Books and Readers in Early Modern England

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• Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays dra... Lees meer

American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853

Meredith L McGill

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• The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mas... Lees meer

Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spain

Fernando Bouza

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• In a provocative attempt to outline a history of communication during the Spanish Golden Age, Communication, Knowledge, and Memory in Early Modern Spa... Lees meer

The Art of Allusion

Sonja Drimmer

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• At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised st... Lees meer

Selling Antislavery

Teresa A Goddu

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• Beginning with its establishment in the early 1830s, the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) recognized the need to reach and consolidate a diverse a... Lees meer

Paper Monsters

Samuel Fallon

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• In Paper Monsters , Samuel Fallon charts the striking rise, at the turn to the seventeenth century, of a new species of textual being: the serial, sem... Lees meer

The Incarnate Text

James Kearney

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• In the course of the Reformation, artistic representation famously came under attack. Statues were destroyed, music and theater were forbidden, and po... Lees meer

Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period

Tilar J Mazzeo

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• In a series of articles published in Tait's Magazine in 1834, Thomas DeQuincey catalogued four potential instances of plagiarism in the work of his fr... Lees meer

Blind Impressions

Joseph A Dane

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• "As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to re... Lees meer

Bibliography and the Book Trades

Hugh Amory

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• Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here... Lees meer