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Barbara Ryan and Milette Shamir, eds. Bigger than Ben-Hur: The Book, Its Adaptations, and Their Audiences
Barbara Ryan and Milette Shamir, eds. Bigger than Ben-Hur: The Book, Its Adaptations, and Their Audiences. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2016. xviii, 269p., ill. ISBN 978815634034. US $34.95. By…
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David vander Meulen, ed. Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 59
David vander Meulen, ed. Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 59. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015. vi, 336p., ill. ISBN 9780813933016. US…
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Heather Haveman. Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860
Heather Haveman. Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. 432p. ISBN 9780691164403. US $45.00. Haveman’s work explores the changing ways…
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Zachary Lesser. “Hamlet” after Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text
Zachary Lesser. “Hamlet” after Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.292 p., 27 ill. ISBN 9780812246612. US $59.95 / GBP £52.00 (hardcover). Zachary…
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Beverly Lyon Clark. The Afterlife of Little Women
Beverly Lyon Clark. The Afterlife of “Little Women.” Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. x, 271p., ill. ISBN 9781421415581. US $44.95. In this thoroughly researched and well-documented text, Clark explores…
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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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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…