Book review
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Ada Maria Kuskowski. Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France.
Ada Maria Kuskowski’s Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France is an innovative study of the earliest customary lawbooks (coutumiers) written in northern France that…
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Lauren Alex O’Hagan. The Sociocultural Functions of Edwardian Book Inscriptions: Taking a Multimodal Ethnohistorical Approach.
O’Hagan’s monograph unpacks the materiality, social and cultural meanings, and practices of book inscription during the Edwardian period in the UK. It will not only be essential for bibliographers interested…
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Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen. Ed. Jane Potter.
Jane Potter’s new edition of Wilfred Owen’s letters restores previously redacted text and allows us to appreciate the poet in the context of his time.
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Stevie Marsden. Prizing Scottish Literature: A Cultural History of the Saltire Society Literary Awards.
Stevie Marsden’s Prizing Scottish Literature pieces together the history of one of Scotland’s oldest literary awards, which is granted by the Saltire Society. Despite the book’s emphasis on this little-known…
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Freya Johnston. Jane Austen, Early and Late.
Freya Johnston’s Jane Austen, Early and Late reframes Austen’s work by reading the author’s juvenilia, short texts, and other so-called minor writing in conversation with her six major novels. Instead…
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Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires. The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition.
Four years after releasing their novella, The Frankfurt Kabuff, an erotic thriller set at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires (alias Blaire Squiscoll) have published this unique…
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Jeff Jarvis. The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet.
In 2011, journalist and digital media expert Jeff Jarvis published Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live (New York: Simon & Schuster),…
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Mark Alan Mattes, ed. Handwriting in Early America: A Media History.
In 2010, changes to American education standards eliminated the mandate to teach handwriting in public schools. As a result many states dropped the practice in classrooms. Yet in recent years…