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Emily Steiner and Lynn Ransom, eds. Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts
Emily Steiner and Lynn Ransom, eds. Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts. Philadelphia: Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies / University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. x, 162 p.,…
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Ian Spellerberg. Reading and Writing Accessories: A Study of Paper-Knives, Paper Folders, Letter Openers and Mythical Page Turners
Ian Spellerberg. Reading and Writing Accessories: A Study of Paper-Knives, Paper Folders, Letter Openers and Mythical Page Turners. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 128 p., ill. ISBN 9781584563501.…
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Stephan Füssel, ed. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, no. 91
Stephan Füssel, ed. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, no. 91. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016. 296p. ISBN: 9783447105453. € 85.00. A notable feature of this volume is the number of English-language contributions. It would seem highly appropriate…
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Alan Rosen, ed. Literature of the Holocaust.
Alan Rosen, ed. Literature of the Holocaust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xii, 324 p. ISBN 9781107008656. £55 / US $85 (hardback). Books such as Literature of the Holocaust can…
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David McInnis and Matthew Steggle, eds. Lost Plays in Shakespeare’s England
David McInnis and Matthew Steggle, eds. Lost Plays in Shakespeare’s England. Early Modern Literature in History. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xiv, 296 p. ISBN 9780333714720. UK £60.00 (hardcover). The topic…
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Sarah L. Leonard. Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls: The Matter of Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Sarah L. Leonard. Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls: The Matter of Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 272p., ill. ISBN 9780812246704. USD $55.00 (hardback). This finely…
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Betty A. Schellenberg. Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture, 1710-1790
Betty A. Schellenberg. Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture, 1710-1790. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 320p., 15 black and white illus. ISBN 9781107128163. £64.99 (hardback). Betty Schellenberg’s…