Reviews
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Naomi S. Baron. Words on Screen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World
Naomi S. Baron. Words on Screen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. vi, 304p. ISBN 9780199351765. US $24.95. Book lovers have been worrying…
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Greg Barnhisel. Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy
Greg Barnhisel. Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xii, 322p., ill. ISBN 9780231162302. US $40.00. Cold War Modernists argues that modernist…
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Guyda Armstrong. The English Boccaccio: A History in Books
Guyda Armstrong. The English Boccaccio: A History in Books. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xvi, 496p., with 16p. b&w plates. ISBN 9781442628779. CAD $42.95 (paperback). Guyda Armstrong’s The…
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Robert Darnton. A Literary Tour de France
If the clever title isn’t enough to interest a book historian in this e-resource, the name behind it likely will be. Robert Darnton is a renowned historian specializing in the…
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Howard Cox and Simon Mowatt, Revolutions from Grub Street: A History of Magazine Publishing in Britain
Covering magazine publishing from Grub Street until the recent past, Howard Cox and Simon Mowatt have produced a magisterial account of the industry. Throughout this study, the focus is on…