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One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”
Av Colm Tóibín
Inbunden, 2022
250 kr
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Ulysses is widely regarded as the greatest novel of the twentieth century. Commemorating the 1922 publication of this modernist masterwork, One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s “Ulysses” tells the story of the writing, revising, printing, and censorship of the novel.Edited by world-renowned Irish …
Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920–1930
Inbunden, 1996
943 kr
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The Rise of Sinclair Lewis examines the making of Lewis’ s best-selling novels Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, and Elmer Gantry—their sources, composition, publication, and subsequent critical reception. Drawing on thousands of pages of material from Lewis’s notes, outlines, and drafts—most of it …
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wall-paper” and the History of Its Publication and Reception
A Critical Edition and Documentary Casebook
Inbunden, 1998
943 kr
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Since its publication in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" has always been recognized as a powerful statement about the victimization of a woman whose neurasthenic condition is completely misdiagnosed, mistreated, and misunderstood, leaving her to face insanity alone, as a …
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wall-paper” and the History of Its Publication and Reception
A Critical Edition and Documentary Casebook
Häftad, 1998
691 kr
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Since its publication in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" has always been recognized as a powerful statement about the victimization of a woman whose neurasthenic condition is completely misdiagnosed, mistreated, and misunderstood, leaving her to face insanity alone, as a …
Imaging the Early Medieval Bible
Häftad, 2001
677 kr
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In Imaging the Early Medieval Bible, five outstanding medievalists present a compelling revisionist interpretation of the beginnings of biblical illustration. While scholars have long argued that the subjects and format of such illustrations were largely determined by archetypes of the earliest …
As Ever Yours
The Letters of Max Perkins and Elizabeth Lemmon
Inbunden, 2003
567 kr
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"When I found these cigarettes you had left I thought at first to keep them as a remembrance. But I am far from needing a remembrance." —From Max Perkins's first letter to Elizabeth Lemmon, dated 14 April 1922Maxwell E. Perkins, famed editor of such literary luminaries as F. Scott Fitzgerald, …
Conrad Richter
A Writer’s Life
Häftad, 2002
560 kr
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Conrad Richter: A Writer's Life is the story of an aspiring writer who failed and then, desperate for money, tried again and wrote himself out of penny-a-word pulp magazines and into a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Based upon unrestricted access to all of Richter's letters, journals, …
Everyday Life in the German Book Trade
Friedrich Nicolai as Bookseller and Publisher in the Age of Enlightenment
Häftad, 2000
618 kr
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In his popular book The Germans (1982), Stanford historian Gordon Craig remarked: "When German intellectuals at the end of the eighteenth century talked of living in a Frederican age, they were sometimes referring not to the monarch in Sans Souci, but to his namesake, the Berlin bookseller …
George Palmer Putnam
Representative American Publisher
Häftad, 2000
542 kr
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George Palmer Putnam (1814–1872) was arguably the most important American publisher of the nineteenth century, a man fully and multiply involved in developments transforming all aspects of literary culture. In this comprehensive cultural biography, Ezra Greenspan offers a wide-ranging account of a …
First White House Library
Inbunden, 2010
793 kr
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Published in association with the Bibliographical Society of America and the National First Ladies’ LibraryAlthough many early U.S. presidents were avid readers and book collectors—George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, to name a few—they usually brought their own books to the White …
First White House Library
Häftad, 2014
449 kr
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Published in association with the Bibliographical Society of America and the National First Ladies’ LibraryAlthough many early U.S. presidents were avid readers and book collectors—George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, to name a few—they usually brought their own books to the White …
Licensing Loyalty
Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France
Av Jane McLeod
Häftad, 2011
524 kr
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In Licensing Loyalty, historian Jane McLeod explores the evolution of the idea that the royal government of eighteenth-century France had much to fear from the rise of print culture. She argues that early modern French printers helped foster this view as they struggled to negotiate a place in the …
Making the Archives Talk
New and Selected Essays in Bibliography, Editing, and Book History
Häftad, 2015
648 kr
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Making the Archives Talk is a collection of twelve essays by editor, biographer, bibliographer, and book historian James L. W. West III. In these essays, West sets forth his views of editorial theory, archival use, textual emendation, and scholarly annotation. He has published editions of major …
Into Print
Limits and Legacies of the Enlightenment; Essays in Honor of Robert Darnton
Häftad, 2013
405 kr
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The famous clash between Edmund Burke and Tom Paine over the Enlightenment’s “evil” or “liberating” potential in the French Revolution finds present-day parallels in the battle between those who see the Enlightenment at the origins of modernity’s many ills, such as imperialism, racism, misogyny, …
How Books Came to America
The Rise of the American Book Trade
Inbunden, 2012
1052 kr
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Anyone who pays attention to the popular press knows that the new media will soon make books obsolete. But predicting the imminent demise of the book is nothing new. At the beginning of the twentieth century, for example, some critics predicted that the electro-mechanical phonograph would soon make …
How Books Came to America
The Rise of the American Book Trade
Häftad, 2014
524 kr
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Anyone who pays attention to the popular press knows that the new media will soon make books obsolete. But predicting the imminent demise of the book is nothing new. At the beginning of the twentieth century, for example, some critics predicted that the electro-mechanical phonograph would soon make …
William Parks
The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 2012
1122 kr
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William Parks: The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century is a cultural biography that traces the important early American printer and newspaper publisher’s path from the rural provinces of England to London and then to colonial Maryland and Virginia. While …
William Parks
The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century
Häftad, 2016
864 kr
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William Parks: The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century is a cultural biography that traces the important early American printer and newspaper publisher’s path from the rural provinces of England to London and then to colonial Maryland and Virginia. While …
Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820
Häftad, 2012
2399 kr
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The culmination of five decades of research, this monumental work of descriptive bibliography, containing entries for more than 1,300 editions, assembles by date of printing the corpus of poetry composed and printed in the United States of America in books and pamphlets up through 1820. It also …
Lydia Bailey
A Checklist of Her Imprints
Av Karen Nipps
Inbunden, 2013
1318 kr
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Little known today, Lydia Bailey was a leading printer in Philadelphia for decades. Her career began in 1808—when her husband, Robert, died, leaving her with the family business to manage—and ended in 1861, when she retired at the age of eighty-two. During her career, she operated a shop that at …
Lydia Bailey
A Checklist of Her Imprints
Av Karen Nipps
Häftad, 2016
694 kr
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Little known today, Lydia Bailey was a leading printer in Philadelphia for decades. Her career began in 1808—when her husband, Robert, died, leaving her with the family business to manage—and ended in 1861, when she retired at the age of eighty-two. During her career, she operated a shop that at …
House of Blackwood
Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era
Häftad, 2012
543 kr
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The Scottish publishing firm of William Blackwood & Sons, founded in 1804, was a major force in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literary history, publishing a diverse group of important authors—including George Eliot, John Galt, Thomas de Quincey, Margaret Oliphant, Anthony …
As Ever Yours
The Letters of Max Perkins and Elizabeth Lemmon
Häftad, 2012
560 kr
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"When I found these cigarettes you had left I thought at first to keep them as a remembrance. But I am far from needing a remembrance." —From Max Perkins's first letter to Elizabeth Lemmon, dated 14 April 1922Maxwell E. Perkins, famed editor of such literary luminaries as F. Scott Fitzgerald, …
Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England
The Subtle Art of Division
Häftad, 2012
709 kr
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Censorship profoundly affected early modern writing. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed picture of early modern censorship and investigates the pressures that censorship exerted on seventeenth-century authors, printers, and publishers. In the 1600s, Britain …
Biography of a Book
Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils
Av Paul Eggert
Inbunden, 2013
964 kr
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Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s, as …
Biography of a Book
Henry Lawson's While the Billy Boils
Av Paul Eggert
Häftad, 2013
797 kr
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Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s, as …
Books and Religious Devotion
The Redemptive Reading of an Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New England
Inbunden, 2014
1107 kr
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In Books and Religious Devotion, Allan Westphall presents a study of the book-collecting habits and annotation practices of Thomas Connary, an Irish immigrant farmer who lived in New Hampshire in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Connary led a pious life that revolved around the use, …
Books and Religious Devotion
The Redemptive Reading of an Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New England
Häftad, 2015
610 kr
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In Books and Religious Devotion, Allan Westphall presents a study of the book-collecting habits and annotation practices of Thomas Connary, an Irish immigrant farmer who lived in New Hampshire in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Connary led a pious life that revolved around the use, …
Impossible Craft
Literary Biography
Häftad, 2015
544 kr
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In The Impossible Craft, Scott Donaldson explores the rocky territory of literary biography, the most difficult that biographers try to navigate. Writers are accustomed to controlling the narrative, and notoriously opposed to allowing intruders on their turf. They make bonfires of their papers, …
Graphic Passion
Matisse and the Book Arts
Av John Bidwell
Inbunden, 2015
770 kr
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The great painter Henri Matisse was also a great book illustrator. A pioneering member of the Fauves, a supreme colorist, a remarkable draftsman, and a creative genius: this is the Matisse known and admired by everyone with even a passing interest in modern art. But few know Matisse as an artist …
