reading & readership
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Jeremy Rosen. Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace
Jeremy Rosen. Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. vii, 265p. ISBN 9780231177443. US$ 60.00. Minor Characters Have Their Day…
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Margaret Mackey. One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography
Margaret Mackey. One Child Reading: My Auto-Bibliography. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2016. xvi, 567p., ill. ISBN 9781772120394. CAN$ 60.00. One Child Reading opens with a striking black and white…
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Kristin L. Matthews. Reading America: Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature
Kristin L. Matthews. Reading America: Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature. Boston and Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. 222p. ISBN 9781625342355. US$ 29.95. In Reading America: Citizenship, Democracy, and…
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Shawn Anthony Christian. The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader
Shawn Anthony Christian. The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. iii, 140p. ISBN 9781625342010 (paper); 9781625342003 (hardcover). $US 25.95 (paper);…
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Rebecca L. Walkowitz. Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature
Rebecca L. Walkowitz. Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 336p., ill. ISBN 9780231165945 (cloth). US $40.00. Rebecca Walkowitz’s conceptually…
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James Procter and Bethan Benwell. Reading Across Worlds: Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference
James Procter and Bethan Benwell. Reading Across Worlds: Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference. New York: Palgrave, 2015. xiv, 274p. ISBN 9781137276391. US $95.00. Scholars and students of…
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Thomas McLaughlin. Reading and the Body: The Physical Practice of Reading
Thomas McLaughlin. Reading and the Body: The Physical Practice of Reading. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. x, 208p., ill. ISBN 9781137541314. US $95. Reading and the Body is an important…
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Michael C. Cohen. The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America
Michael C. Cohen. The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 281p., 23 ill. ISBN 9780812247084. US $55.00. Michael C. Cohen’s The Social…