Reviews
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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.…
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Alison Baverstock, How to Market Books
Alison Baverstock. How to Market Books. 5th ed. London and New York: Routledge, 2015. xx, 471p., ill. ISBN 9780415727587. £29.99 (paperback). How to Market Books is, as the title suggests,…
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Benjamin Bennett, The Defective Art of Poetry: Sappho to Yeats
Benjamin Bennett. The Defective Art of Poetry: Sappho to Yeats. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. x, 208 p. ISBN 9781137381873. £53.50 (hardcover). Benjamin Bennett’s book traces a line, as its…