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Reading Revolutions : The Politics Of Reading In Early Modern England

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Kevin Sharpe
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Book, Yale University Press, 2000
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- Book review (H-Net)
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In this book Sharpe charts the reading of one seventeenth-century gentleman, using a spectacular archive (Huntington Library CA, Folger Library DC, London University) of 50 volumes of his reading notes from the 1620s to the 1660s; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Politics and literature · Great Britain · History · 17th century · Books and reading · 17th century · Political aspects · Politics and government · 1603-1714 · Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 · Sharpe, Kevin
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(LOWER LEVEL) DA375 .S55 2000 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	DA375 .S55 2000	AVAILABLE

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Shakespeare As Children’s Literature : Edwardian Retellings In Words And Pictures

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Velma Bourgeois Richmond
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Book, McFarland & Co, 2008
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Although William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, he traditionally receives little notice in studies of children’s literature. The author describes the significance of the Lamb’s Tales as the pre-eminent children’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s literature, focusing particularly on the lavishly illustrated Edwardian editions which used pictures to convey Shakespeare’s stories for children. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Lamb, Charles, · 1775-1834. · Tales from Shakespeare · Lamb, Mary, · 1764-1847 · Criticism and interpretation · Shakespeare, William, · 1564-1616 · Adaptations · Stories, plots, etc · Children’s literature, English · History and criticism · Children · Books and reading · Great Britain · History · 19th century · Richmond, Velma Bourgeois
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR2877.L33 R53 2008 DUE 03-08-10

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR2877.L33 R53 2008	DUE 03-08-10

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The Cambridge Companion To Fiction In The Romantic Period

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edited by Richard Maxwell, Katie Trumpener
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 2008
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While poetry has been the genre most closely associated with the Romantic period, the novel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries has attracted many more readers and students in recent years. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English fiction · 18th century · History and criticism · 19th century · Romanticism · Great Britain · Books and reading · History · Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English · History and criticism · English literature · Irish authors · Scottish authors · Intellectual life · Maxwell, Richard, 1948- · Trumpener, Katie, 1961-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR858.R73 C36 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR858.R73 C36 2008	AVAILABLE

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Shakespeare For The People : Working-class Readers, 1800- 1900

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Andrew Murphy
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Book, Cambridge University Press, 2008
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Beginning by mapping out an overview of the expansion of elementary education in Britain across the nineteenth century, Andrew Murphy explores, for the first time, the manner in which Shakespeare acquired a working-class readership. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Shakespeare, William, · 1564-1616 · Study and teaching · Great Britain · Criticism and interpretation · Influence · Books and reading · History · 19th century · Publishers and publishing · 19th century · Literature and society · Murphy, Andrew
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR2987 .M87 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR2987 .M87 2008	AVAILABLE

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Reading Women : Literacy, Authorship, And Culture In The Atlantic World, 1500-1800

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edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly
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Book, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
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While scholars have written extensively about women’s reading in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and about women’s writing in the early modern period, they have not attended sufficiently to the critical transformation that took place as female readers and their reading assumed significant cultural and economic power. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Women · Books and reading · Great Britain · History · United States · Women and literature · Literacy · Brayman Hackel, Heidi · Kelly, Catherine E
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z1039.W65 R43 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Z1039.W65 R43 2008	AVAILABLE

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The Te Of Piglet

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Benjamin Hoff
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Book, Dutton, 1992
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In The Te of Piglet, a good deal of Taoist wisdom is revealed through the character and actions of A. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Milne, A. A. · (Alan Alexander), · 1882-1956 · Characters · Piglet · Religion · Children · Great Britain · Books and reading · History · 20th century · Children’s stories, English · History and criticism · Size perception in literature · Piglet (Fictitious character) · Taoism in literature · Taoism · Hoff, Benjamin, 1946-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR6025.I65 Z69 1992 LOST&PD6-11/07

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR6025.I65 Z69 1992	LOST&PD6-11/07

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Romantic Readers : The Evidence Of Marginalia

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H.J. Jackson
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Book, Yale University Press, 2005
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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When readers jot down notes in their books, they reveal something of themselves?what they believe, what amuses or annoys them, what they have read before. This book explores reading practices in the Romantic Age through an analysis of some 2,000 books annotated by British readers between 1790 and 1830. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Books and reading · Great Britain · History · 19th century · Marginalia · Publishers and publishing · 19th century · Romanticism · Intellectual life · Jackson, H. J
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z1003.5.G7 J33 2005 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Z1003.5.G7 J33 2005	AVAILABLE

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Educating The Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines And The Cultural Health Of The Nation

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Jennifer Phegley
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Book, Ohio State University Press, 2004
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English literature · 19th century · History and criticism · Middle class women · Books and reading · English-speaking countries · History · Women and literature · English-speaking countries · Periodicals · Publishing · Great Britain · 19th century · United States · Literature publishing · American literature · Didactic literature, English · Women in literature · Phegley, Jennifer
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR468.W6 P48 2004 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR468.W6 P48 2004	AVAILABLE

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The Mind Of Gladstone : Religion, Homer, And Politics

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D.W. Bebbington
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Book, Oxford University Press, 2004
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William Ewart Gladstone, four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under Queen Victoria, was not only the most celebrated British statesman of his day but also a respected theologian and a dedicated scholar of the ancient Greek poet Homer. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Homer · Appreciation · Great Britain · Gladstone, W. E. · (William Ewart), · 1809-1898 · Religion · Books and reading · Christianity and politics · History · 19th century · Politics and literature · Epic poetry, Greek · Prime ministers · Biography · Politics and government · 1837-1901 · Civilization · Greek influences · Bebbington, D. W. 1949-
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(LOWER LEVEL) DA563.4 .B427 2004 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	DA563.4 .B427 2004	AVAILABLE

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Beatrix Potter : Writing In Code

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by M. Daphne Kutzer
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Book, Routledge, 2003
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This is the first book-length study of Beatrix Potter’s entire oeuvre, examining all facets of her work in relation to her private life. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Potter, Beatrix, · 1866-1943 · Criticism and interpretation · Children · Books and reading · Great Britain · History · 20th century · Women and literature · England · 20th century · Children’s stories, English · History and criticism · Animals in literature · Kutzer, M. Daphne
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR6031.O72 Z5895 2003 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR6031.O72 Z5895 2003	AVAILABLE

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Sesame And Lilies

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John Ruskin ; edited and with an introduction by Deborah Epstein Nord ; with essays by Elizabeth Helsinger, Seth Koven, Jan Marsh
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Book, Yale University Press, 2002
Description
John Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies, first published in 1865, stands as a classic nineteenth-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. This volume returns Sesame and Lilies to easy availability and reunites the two halves of the work: Of Kings’ Treasuries, in which Ruskin critiques Victorian manhood, and Of Queens’ Gardens, in which he counsels women to take their places as the moral guides of men and urges the parents of girls to educate them to this end. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Ruskin, John, · 1819-1900. · Sesame and lilies · Books and reading · Great Britain · Conduct of life · Masculinity · Femininity · Sex role · Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Nord, Deborah Epstein, 1949-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR5260.A2 N67 2002 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR5260.A2 N67 2002	AVAILABLE

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Reading Lives : Reconstructing Childhood, Books, And Schools In Britain, 1870-1920

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Gretchen R. Galbraith
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Book, 1st ed, St. Martin’s Press, 1997
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Children · Books and reading · Great Britain · History · 19th century · 20th century · Education, Elementary · Galbraith, Gretchen R., 1963-
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z1037.A1 G35 1997 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Z1037.A1 G35 1997	AVAILABLE

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Hysterical Fictions : The "woman’s Novel" In The Twentieth Century

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Clare Hanson
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Book, St. Martin’s Press, 2000
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Through six case studies, the representation of a “mind/body” problem is explored in the fiction of Rosamond Lehmann, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret Drabble, A.S. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English fiction · Women authors · History and criticism · Feminism and literature · Great Britain · History · 20th century · Women and literature · 20th century · Feminist fiction, English · Mind and body in literature · Body, Human, in literature · Women · Books and reading · Femininity in literature · Sex role in literature · Women in literature · Hanson, Clare
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR888.F45 H36 2000 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR888.F45 H36 2000	AVAILABLE

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Revising Women : Eighteenth-century "women’s Fiction" And Social Engagement

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edited by Paula R. Backscheider
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Book, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000
Description
Revising Women is a collection of essays by a distinguished group of feminist critics. Beginning with the fictions of the late seventeenth century, and ending with Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen, the essays in Revising Women are characterized by informed historicizing, detailed textual explication, sophisticated feminist theory, and dedicated attention to the interrelationships between life and literary works and between everyday existence and political processes. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English fiction · 18th century · History and criticism · Feminism and literature · Great Britain · History · 18th century · Women · Books and reading · Literature and society · Women and literature · Women authors · Social problems in literature · Sex role in literature · Backscheider, Paula R
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR858.F45 R48 2000 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR858.F45 R48 2000	AVAILABLE

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A Passion For Books

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edited by Dale Salwak
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Book, St. Martin’s Press, 1999
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Nineteen original essays make up this indispensable guide for anyone who is interested in the past and future of books and the publishing industry. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Books and reading · United States · Great Britain · Critics · Authors, English · Salwak, Dale
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z1003.2 .P37 1999 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Z1003.2 .P37 1999	AVAILABLE

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