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Robert Darnton. Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
Robert Darnton. Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature. London: The British Library, 2014. The Panizzi Lectures 2013. 316 p., ill. ISBN 9780712357616. £25.00 (hardcover). This excellent book represents a…
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Anna Bayman, Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London
Anna Bayman. Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London. Farnham, U.K.: Ashgate, 2014. viii, 160 p. ISBN 9780754661733. £65.00 (hardcover). When the dramatist and pamphleteer Thomas…
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Helen A. Fairlie, Revaluing British Boys’ Story Papers, 1918-1939
Helen A. Fairlie, Revaluing British Boys’ Story Papers, 1918-1939. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. x, 214 p. ill. ISBN 9781137293053. £50.00 (hardcover). Helen Fairlie’s Revaluing British Boys’ Story Papers, 1918-1939 sets…
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Lesa Scholl, Emily Morris, and Sarina Gruver Moore, eds. Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell
Lesa Scholl, Emily Morris, and Sarina Gruver Moore, eds. Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. xiii, 231 p. ill. ISBN 9781472429636. UK £60 (hardback).…
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Marian Thèrése Keyes and Áine McGillicuddy, eds. Politics and Ideology in Children’s Literature
Marian Thèrése Keyes and Áine McGillicuddy, eds. Politics and Ideology in Children’s Literature. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014. 191 p. ISBN 9781846825262. €49.50 (hardback). Children’s literature became an established area…
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Ryan Szpiech, Conversion and Narrative: Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic
Ryan Szpiech. Conversion and Narrative: Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. xiv, 314 p. ISBN 9780812244717. US $59.95 (hardcover). Ryan Szpiech wants us…
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James Raven, Bookscape: Geographies of Printing and Publishing in London before 1800
James Raven. Bookscape: Geographies of Printing and Publishing in London before 1800. (The Panizzi Lectures, 2010.) London: The British Library, 2014. xv, 208 p., ill. ISBN 9780712357333. £50.00 (hardback). This…
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Margaret Connolly and Raluca Radulescu, eds. Insular Books: Vernacular Manuscript Miscellanies in Late Medieval Britain
Margaret Connolly and Raluca Radulescu, eds. Insular Books: Vernacular Manuscript Miscellanies in Late Medieval Britain. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2015. xviii, 330p., colour ill.…
