 | Opening The Nursery Door
Publication Date: May 7, 1997| ISBN-10: 0415148995 | ISBN-13: 978-0415148993| Edition: 1 Opening the Nursery Door is a fascinating collection of essays inspired by the discovery of a tiny archive: the nursery library of Jane Johnson 1707-1759, wife of a Lincolnshire vicar. It has captured the scholarly interest of social anthropologists, historians, literary scholars, educationalists and archivists as it has opened up a range of questions about the nature of childhood within English cultural life over three centuries: the texts written and read to children, the multifarious ways childhoo...
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 | Mother Was a Lady: Self and Society in Selected American Children's Periodicals, 1865-1890 (Contributions in American Studies)
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 | The Marks in the Fields: Essays on the Uses of Manuscripts (Houghton Library Publications)
Publication Date: February 1992| Series: Houghton Library Publications In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Harvard's Houghton Library in 1992, Curator of Manuscripts Rodney Dennis asked a stellar cast of critics, historians, and curators to write on items selected from the library's rich trove of manuscripts, which ranges from the papyrus fragments and ostraca of Antiquity to the papers of such modern figures as Elizabeth Bishop and Leon Trotsky. The result was Marks in the Fields, an extraordinary collection of essays by the likes of Helen Vendler, Christopher Ricks, and Lawrence Buel...
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 | Laura Ingalls Wilder: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical, Biographical, and Teaching Studies (Bibliographies and Indexes in American Literature)
Publication Date: January 30, 1997| ISBN-10: 0313299994 | ISBN-13: 978-0313299995| Edition: annotated edition With the publication of her first book, The Little House in the Big Woods (1932), Laura Ingalls Wilder became an almost overnight success as a writer of children's literature. This reference is a comprehensive compilation of works and research done on her from the first appearance of commentary to mid-1995. Citations are included for books, booklets, articles, theses, dissertations, and book reviews, and the annotations discuss the contents of these works. Entries are grouped in ...
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 | Joyce's Iritis and the Irritated Text: The Dis-lexic Ulysses (Florida James Joyce)
Publication Date: August 20, 1995| Series: Florida James Joyce Ulysses was written and proofread when James Joyce's vision was seriously blurred and impaired by iritis. The illness required him to use a magnifying glass to enlarge words, separating them out of context and distorting the simple letters in them. This book is the first study to consider the undermining effects of Joyce's iritis on the text of Ulysses. Gottfried examines Ulysses much as Joyce must have tried to see it, in close readings of many small portions of the text, and with a quizzical eye. He...
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 | A A Milne (Young at Heart)
Publication Date: September 1992| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | The Library of Alexandria: Rediscovering the Cradle of Western Culture
Publication Date: March 16, 2000| ISBN-10: 1860644287 | ISBN-13: 978-1860644283The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world. It contained thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew and Mesopotamian literature, as well as art and artifacts of ancient Egypt. This book brings together a distinguished array of scholars to bring this great institution--tragically destroyed--back to life. ...
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 | Los libros del gran dictador (Coleccion Imago Mundi) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Little House On The Prairie (Masterwork Studies Series)
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 | Mary Poppins and Myth (Skrifter Utgivna Av Svenska Barnboksinstitutet, Nr. 8.)
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 | Masterwork Studies Series: A Little Princess (cloth) (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)
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 | The Orwell Mystique: A Study in Male Ideology
Publication Date: October 4, 1984Historical perspective on the writings of George Orwell and the study in make ideology. ...
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 | The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
Publication Date: April 14, 2008Peter Mark Roget-polymath, eccentric, and synonym aficionado-was a complicated man. He was an eminent scholar who absorbed himself in his work, yet he also possessed an allure that endeared him to his mentors and colleagues-not to mention a host of female admirers. But, most notably, Roget made lists.From the age of eight, Roget kept these lists with the intention of ordering the chaotic world around him. After his father's death, his mother became overbearing and despondent. Soon, his sister also descended into mental illness. Despite these tragedies, Roget l...
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| Literature in the Modern World: Critical Essays and Documents
Publication Date: January 17, 1991| ISBN-10: 019871114X | ISBN-13: 978-0198711148This book offers a unique combination of English, European, feminist and "new writing" or "Commonwealth" perspectives upon literary studies from the 1920s to the 1980s. It is designed to enable students to gain an understanding of the main theoretical issues involved in the study of modern literary texts - chiefly but not exclusively in English. It includes the views of leading critics and theorists such as Marilyn Butler, Frank Kermode, Helene Cixous and Edward Said, as well as the originating voices of Wol...
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| Lecturas y lectores del discurso narrativo dieciochesco (Teoria literaria, texto y teoria) (Teoria literaria, texto y teoria) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading
Publication Date: December 31, 2002"Persuasive, instructive, and revisionary. Serves as complementary, complicating, or corrective to much of the scholarship on Melville, especially to very recent scholarship. . . . I will never teach or discuss Melville's texts in exactly the same ways again."--Jamie Barlowe, University of ToledoBy delineating the connections between nineteenth-century penitentiary reforms and the narrative structures and strategies of Herman Melville's fictions, this book explores the ways literature reflects and refracts ideas about the influence of reading on m...
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 | Mary Mapes Dodge (Twayne United States Authors Series)
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 | Lloyd Alexander: A Bio-Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in Women's Studies)
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 | L. Frank Baum's World of Oz: A Classic Series at 100 (Children's Literature Association Centennial Studies)
Publication Date: July 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up...
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 | Masterwork Studies Series: Wind in the Willows (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)
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