reading & readership
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Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly. What Middletown Read: Print Culture in a Small American City
Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly. What Middletown Read: Print Culture in a Small American City. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015. 320p., ill. ISBN 9781625341419. US $28.95. In What…
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Arni Brownstone. War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation
Arni Brownstone. War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2015. xii, 143p., ill. ISBN 9781772120523. CAD 35.00 War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation builds…
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Reading Revolution: Art and Literacy During China’s Cultural Revolution.
Reading Revolution: Art and Literacy During China’s Cultural Revolution at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto (21 June–30 September, 2016).
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Wendy Wall. Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen
Wendy Wall. Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. xii, 312p., black and white ill. ISBN 9780812247589. US $69.95…
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Anita Starosta. Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference
Anita Starosta. Form and Instability: Eastern Europe, Literature, Postimperial Difference. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016. x, 222 p. ISBN 9780810132023. US $34.95 (paperback). Europe – that is, its Western…
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Sarah L. Leonard. Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls: The Matter of Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Sarah L. Leonard. Fragile Minds and Vulnerable Souls: The Matter of Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 272p., ill. ISBN 9780812246704. USD $55.00 (hardback). This finely…
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Shafquat Towheed and Edmund G. C. King, eds. Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives
Shafquat Towheed and Edmund G. C. King, eds. Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xi, 266p., ill. ISBN 9781137302700. £55.00 (hardback). The history…
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Sandro Jung and Stephen Colclough, eds. The History of the Book
Sandro Jung and Stephen Colclough, eds. The History of the Book. Thematic Issue of the Yearbook of English Studies, no. 45. London: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2015. 296p., ill. ISBN…