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Carolyn CarpanPublication Details
BookScarecrow Press2009Links
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Sisters, Schoolgirls, And Sleuths : Girls’ Series Books In America
Promised Land : Thirteen Books That Changed America
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Jay PariniPublication Details
Book1st edDoubleday2008Description
In Promised Land, Jay Parini repossesses that vibrant, intellectual heritage by examining the life and times of thirteen “books that changed America.” Their influence remains pervasive, however hidden, and in his essays Jay Parini demonstrates how these books entered American life and altered how we think and act in the world. The thirteen “books that changed America”: Of Plymouth Plantation ? The Promised Land ? The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS169.N35 P37 2008 AVAILABLE
Reading Women : Literacy, Authorship, And Culture In The Atlantic World, 1500-1800
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edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. KellyPublication Details
BookUniversity of Pennsylvania Press2008Description
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)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z1039.W65 R43 2008 AVAILABLE
The Pilgrim And The Bee : Reading Rituals And Book Culture In Early New England
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Matthew P. BrownPublication Details
BookUniversity of Pennsylvania Press2007Description
Understanding Puritanism as a style of piety predicated on access to texts, he describes a canon of texts (devotional “steady sellers”) that, with the Bible, served as conduct literature for pious readers. To Brown, seventeenth-century devotional readers are both pilgrims, treating texts as continuous narratives of redemptive journeying, and bees, treating texts as flowers or hives, as spatial objects where information is extracted and deposited discontinuously. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z1003.3.N4 B76 2007 AVAILABLE
Minders Of Make-believe : Idealists, Entrepreneurs, And The Shaping Of American Children’s Literature
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Leonard S. MarcusPublication Details
BookHoughton Mifflin Co2008Description
From The New England Primer to The Cat in the Hat to Cormier’s The Chocolate War, Marcus offers a richly informed, witty appraisal of the pivotal books that transformed children’s book publishing, and brings alive the revealing synergy between books like these and the national mood of their times. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN1009.A1 M365 2008 AVAILABLE
Multicultural And Ethnic Children’s Literature In The United States
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Donna L. GiltonPublication Details
BookScarecrow Press2007Links
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Multicultural and Ethnic Children’s Literature in the United States describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children’s literature in the U.S., as well as related materials published elsewhere. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN1009.A1 G55 2007 AVAILABLE
The Road To Monticello : The Life And Mind Of Thomas Jefferson
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Kevin J. HayesPublication Details
BookOxford University Press2008Links
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Moving chronologically through Jefferson’s life, Hayes reveals the full range and depth of Jefferson’s literary passions, from the popular “small books” sold by traveling chapmen, such as The History of Tom Thumb, which enthralled him as a child; Drawing on Jefferson’s letters, journals, and commonplace books, Hayes offers a wealth of new scholarship on the print culture of colonial America, reveals an intimate portrait of Jefferson’s activities beyond the political chamber, and reconstructs the president’s investigations in such different fields of knowledge as law, history, philosophy and natural science. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E332.2 .H395 2008 AVAILABLE
The Agony And The Eggplant : Daniel Pinkwater’s Heroic Struggles In The Name Of YA Literature
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Walter HoganPublication Details
BookScarecrow Press2001Description
This fifth volume in the “Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature” series discusses nearly all of Pinkwater’s books, and emphasizes his young adult fiction: “Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars” (1979), “The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death” (1982), “The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror” (1984), “Young Adult Novel” (1982), “Young Adults” (1985), and “The Education of Robert Nifkin” (1997). (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3566.I526 Z69 2001 AVAILABLE
In The Company Of Books : Literature And Its "classes" In Nineteenth-century America
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Sarah WadsworthPublication Details
BookUniversity of Massachusetts Press2006Links
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A vital feature of American culture in the nineteenth century was the growing awareness that the literary marketplace consisted not of a single, unified, relatively homogeneous reading public but rather of many disparate, overlapping reading communities differentiated by interests, class, and level of education as well as by gender and stage of life. “In the Company of Books” contends that specialized editorial and marketing tactics, in concert with the narrative strategies of authors and the reading practices of the book-buying public, transformed the literary landscape, leading to new roles for the book in American culture, the innovation of literary genres, and new relationships between books and readers. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z473 .W33 2006 AVAILABLE
Serialized Citizenships : Periodicals, Books, And American Boys, 1840-1911
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Lorinda B. CohoonPublication Details
BookScarecrow Press2006Links
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LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN4878 .C64 2006 AVAILABLE
What Was It Like? : Teaching History And Culture Through Young Adult Literature
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Linda J. Rice ; foreword by Alleen Pace NilsenPublication Details
BookTeachers College Press, Columbia University2006Description
This practical book is a great resource for teachers who want to engage their students with young adult literature. Book Features: * Depictions of active learning in the English classroom, including many examples of student work with accompanying photos, web pages, and more. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E741 .R53 2006 AVAILABLE
Women In Print : Essays On The Print Culture Of American Women From The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries
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edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand ; foreword by Elizabeth LongPublication Details
BookUniversity of Wisconsin Press2006Links
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Women readers, editors, librarians, authors, journalists, booksellers, and others are the subjects in this stimulating new collection on modern print culture. Published in collaboration among the University of Wisconsin Press, the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America (a joint program of the University of Wisconsin?Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society), and the University of Wisconsin?Madison General Library System Office of Scholarly Communication. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS REFERENCE (MAIN) Z473 .W68 2006 AVAILABLE
Distant Reading : Performance, Readership, And Consumption In Contemporary Poetry
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Peter MiddletonPublication Details
BookUniversity of Alabama Press2005Links
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Distant Reading considers poetry as performance, offers new insights into its popularity, and proposes a new history of its origins. The introductory essay establishes a new methodology that transforms close reading into what Middleton calls “distant reading,” interpretive reading that acknowledges the distances that texts travel from their point of composition to readers in other geographical and historical locations. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS325 .M53 2005 AVAILABLE
Schoolroom Poets : Childhood And The Place Of American Poetry, 1865-1917
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Angela SorbyPublication Details
BookUniversity of New Hampshire Press2005Links
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As recently as the 1960s, children across America continued to recite in schoolrooms or on auditorium stages poems of strong emotional resonance such as “Paul Revere’s Ride,” “Little Orphan Annie,” and “The Song of Hiawatha.” According to Angela Sorby, these and hundreds of other child-oriented poems, written less for individual introspection than for public performance, became central components of American culture in the period between the Civil War and World War I. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS310.C5 S67 2005 AVAILABLE
Learning To Read And Write In Colonial America
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E. Jennifer MonaghanPublication Details
BookUniversity of Massachusetts Press2005Links
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An experienced teacher of reading and writing and an award-winning historian, E. For the most part, religious motives underlay reading instruction in colonial America, while secular motives led to writing instruction. Young orphans in Georgia write precocious letters to their benefactor, George Whitefield, while schools in South Carolina teach enslaved black children to read but never to write. She pioneers in exploring the implications of the separation of reading and writing instruction, a topic that still resonates in today’s classrooms. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) LC151 .M65 2005 AVAILABLE
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