media studies
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Matthew Rubery. The Untold Story of the Talking Book
Matthew Rubery. The Untold Story of the Talking Book. Cambridge, MA; London, England: Harvard University Press, 2016. 369p., 39 halftones. ISBN 9780674545441. US $29.95 (hardcover). Matthew Rubery’s latest monograph, The…
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Ardis Cameron. Unbuttoning America: A Biography of Peyton Place
Ardis Cameron. Unbuttoning America: A Biography of “Peyton Place.” Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. xiv, 223p., ill. ISBN 080145364X. US $24.95. In this comprehensive analysis of Grace Metalious’s 1956 novel,…
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Kate Macdonald and Christoph Singer, eds. Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880-1930.
Kate Macdonald and Christoph Singer, eds. Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880-1930. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. x, 272 p., ill. ISBN 9781137486776. US $95.00 (hardcover). Kate Macdonald and Christoph Singer’s 2015…
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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…