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Bound to Read
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 literature of the English …
New World, Known World
New World, Known World examines the works of four writers closely associated with the early period of English colonization, from 1624 to 1649: John Smith's ""Generall Historie of …
Authorizing Early Modern European Women
The essays in this volume analyze strategies adopted by contemporary novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, and biographers interested in bringing the stories of early modern women …
The Man, Shakespeare - And his Tragic Life Story
"The Man, Shakespeare - And his Tragic Life Story" is a 1909 work by Frank Harris that explores the character of Shakespeare by analysing that of his most notable characters. This …
An Ideal Husband
"An Ideal Husband" is a play in four acts by Oscar Wilde. The narrative revolves around a Government minister named Sir Robert Chiltern whose successful career and happy marriage …
A Woman of No Importance
"A Woman of No Importance" is an 1893 play in four acts by Oscar Wilde. First performed at the Haymarket Theatre in London, it represents a razor-sharp satire of England's …
How To Read Sade
John Philips introduces the Marquis de Sade's highly original and thoroughly subversive depiction of human sexuality and the philosophical and political thinking that underpins it. …
What Katy Read
What Katy Read focuses on a much neglected area of literary criticism: literature for girls. Written by women for children, such texts have been doubly marginalized by the critical …
R. H. Cromek, Engraver, Editor, and Entrepreneur
Based on meticulous archival research, Dennis M. Read's study offers the most accurate and thorough account to date of the engraver, editor, and arts enthusiast R. H. Cromek. …
How the Russians Read the French
Russian writers of the nineteenth century were quite consciously creating a new national literary tradition. They saw themselves through Western European eyes, at once admiring …
When Russia Learned to Read
Late Imperial Russia's revolution in literacy touched nearly every aspect of daily life and culture, from social mobility and national identity to the sensibilities and projects of …
Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France
The pregnant, birthing, and nurturing body is a recurring topos in early modern French literature. Such bodies, often metaphors for issues and anxieties obtaining to the gendered …