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De lardas bibliotek: Trettio uppsalaprofessorer om betydelsefulla bocker (Swedish Edition) | Defining Literary Criticism: Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002 Best Price: $17.96 Outlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature... | The Future of the Page (Studies in Book and Print Culture) Best Price: $22.24 The most basic unit of the physical book is the page. It has determined the historical evolution... | The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public : 1800-1900 | After the Victorians Best Price: $59.00 |
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Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana: How to Play the Game of Life Best Price: $19.50 Focusing on the broad educational aims of the colonial administration and missionary societies,... | Books both useful and entertaining: A study of book purchases and reading habits of Virginians in the mid-eighteenth century (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library research report series) | Petrus Alfonsi and His Medieval Readers Best Price: $24.95 Petrus Alfonsi was an important and unusual figure in the "twelfth-century... | Literary culture in early New England, 1620-1730, This important book reshaped how we viewed New England colonists by examining their libraries,... | Literary Subversion: New American Fiction and the Practice of Criticism (Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques) Best Price: $29.94 Klinkowitz’ comprehensive Introduc?tion provides the clearest, liveliest explo?ration... |
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The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers, And Readers in Early Modern England (Massachusetts Studies on Early Modern Culture) Best Price: $24.95 The period of time covered by this book, from 1580 to 1660, might be viewed as the origin of our... | Models for the Multitudes: Social Values in the American Popular Novel, 1850-1920 (Contributions to the Study of Childhood and Youth) Best Price: $34.50 This provocative study was developed to uncover the thought processes of the best-selling... | Lollards and their Books Best Price: $100.00 The history of the Lollard movement is intimately concerned with their writings and literacy.... | | |