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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Date index
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Place index
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Author index
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: Quixotic Fictions of the USA 1792-1815
Author: Sarah F. WoodPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191515163
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Quixotic Fictions of the USA 1792-1815 explores the conflicted and conflicting interpretations of Don Quixote available to and deployed by disenchanted writers of America's new republic. It argues that the legacy of Don Quixote provided an ambiguous cultural icon and ironic narrative stance that enabled authors to critique with impunity the ideological fictions shoring up their fractured republic. Close readings of works such as Modern Chivalry, Female Quixotism, and The Algerine Captive reveal that the fiction from this period repeatedly engaged with Cervantes's narrative in order to test competing interpretations of republicanism, to interrogate the new republic's multivalent crises of authority, and to question both the possibility and the desirability of an isolationist USA and an autonomous 'American' literature. Sarah Wood's study is the first book-length publication to examine the role of Don Quixote in early American literature. Exploring the extent to which the literary culture of North America was shaped by a diverse range of influences, it addresses an issue of growing concern to scholars of American history and literature. Quixotic Fictions reaffirms the global reach of Cervantes's influence and explores the complex, contradictory ways in which Don Quixote helped shape American fiction at a formative moment in its development.
Geographies of the Book
Author: Charles W.J. WithersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317128982
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The geography of the book is as old as the history of the book, though far less thoroughly explored. Yet research has increasingly pointed to the spatial dimensions of book history, to the transformation of texts as they are made and moved from place to place, from authors to readers and within different communities and cultures of reception. Widespread recognition of the significance of place, of the effects of movement over space and of the importance of location to the making and reception of print culture has been a feature of recent book history work, and draws in many instances upon studies within the history of science as well as geography. 'Geographies of the Book' explores the complex relationships between the making of books in certain geographical contexts, the movement of books (epistemologically as well as geographically) and the ways in which they are received.
The Oxford Guide to Library Research
Author: Thomas MannPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195123135
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Required reading for students, scholars, information-seeking professionals, and laypersons."--BOOK JACKET.
American Mathematical Textbooks
Author: Robin Halwas LimitedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description