epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Barnhisel, Greg

Master, mammoth mumbler, tell me why The bales of your left-over novels buy Less than a bandage for your gouty foot.113 (Interestingly, Lowell enclosed this poem in a letter he ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:Simon Eliot & Jonathan Rose

Color After some experiments in the incunable period, it became unusual to find color in books because it was difficult to justify the added expense. After 1800, color printing became ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-12-22 | Author:Deidre Shauna Lynch [Lynch, Deidre Shauna]

VOLUMINOUSNESS: ON GOING STEADY WITH NOVELS It is no surprise, either, that the novel is central to the discussion of “Voluminous Authors” and the particularly “intimate . . . familiarity” ...

azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Duncan Robertson [Robertson, Duncan]

“Listen willingly to holy readings.” The knowledge of sacred reading provides those who cultivate it with keenness of perception, increases their understanding, shakes off sluggishness, does away with idleness, shapes ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-03 | Author:Helen Taylor

Killer Women and Cozy Crime As I’ve discussed in relation to romance and erotica, in recent years the issue of violence against women has become a major moral, political, and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Castiglia

3 Humanism The Cant of Pessimism and Newton Arvin’s Queer Humanism We are in the habit of assuming that the most serious and profound apprehension of reality is the Sense ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:Jonathan Rée

James had promised his father that he would compile an anthology of passages from his writings, ‘after the manner of the extracts from Carlyle, Ruskin, & co’ that were already ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Graham Thompson

4 The “Unbounded Treasures” of Magazine Paratexts Reading Melville’s magazine writing as pioneer readers once read it in the 1850s is no longer possible. Contemporary critics cannot recreate, for want ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Abigail Williams [Williams, Abigail]

Bowdlerizing Shakespeare Bell’s edition of Shakespeare had a wider reach and influence than any other contemporary edition of the dramatist. In offering an accessible, sanitised version of the plays, authorised ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2017-05-18 | Author:Zeina Halabi [Halabi, Zeina]

33. Khoury, ‘Risala ila Ralph Rizqallah’, p. 19. 34. Youssef Habshi al-Ashqar is one of the earliest and least recognised novelists who have written about the civil war. See al-Ashqar, ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-25 | Author:Frederick G. Kilgour

Publishing and the Book Trade When he took over Gutenberg’s assets Johann Fust also acquired Peter Schoeffer, a superb technician who had worked with Gutenberg. Together they created a business, ...

epub |eng | | Author:A J Jacobs

N names JULIE AND I have been talking about names for our yet-to-be-conceived child. Julie’s both an unflagging optimist and a planner, so she figures we should get started now. ...

epub |eng | | Author:MacLeod, Kirsten;

At the same time, portraits of writers were a dominant feature of the magazine in this early period, and would remain so. These generally appeared in conjunction with an article ...

epub |eng | 1959-04-28 | Author:Beach, Sylvia [Beach, Sylvia]

0> ^^- or those to be tipped could simply help themselves. Thus did Scott shed all he earned without concern for the future. It was through Scott, I imagine, that ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-05 | Author:Matthew Battles

SWIFT TOO WAS “GIVEN TO PROSE.” In his prescient imagination, however, the figure of the universal library rose prematurely into view; before Swift could satirize it, he had to invent ...