Author: R. H. Evans (London)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Auction catalogue, books of Richard Heber, 29 February to 12 March 1836
Author: R. H. Evans (London)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Amadis in English
Author: Helen Moore
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192568566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
This is a book about readers: readers reading, and readers writing. They are readers of all ages and from all ages: young and old, male and female, from Europe and the Americas. The book they are reading is the Spanish chivalric romance AmadÃs de Gaula, known in English as Amadis de Gaule. Famous throughout the sixteenth century as the pinnacle of its fictional genre, the cultural functions of Amadis were further elaborated by the publication of Cervantes's Don Quixote in 1605, in which Amadis features as Quixote's favourite book. Amadis thereby becomes, as the philosopher Ortega y Gasset terms it, 'enclosed' within the modern novel and part of the imaginative landscape of British reader-authors such Mary Shelley, Smollett, Keats, Southey, Scott, and Thackeray. Amadis in English ranges from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, demonstrating through this 'biography' of a book the deep cultural, intellectual, and political connections of English, French, and Spanish literature across five centuries. Simultaneously an ambitious work of transnational literary history and a new intervention in the history of reading, this study argues that romance is historically located, culturally responsive, and uniquely flexible in the re-creative possibilities it offers readers. By revealing this hitherto unexamined reading experience connecting readers of all backgrounds, Amadis in English also offers many new insights into the politicisation of literary history; the construction and misconstruction of literary relations between England, France, and Spain; the practice and pleasures of reading fiction; and the enduring power of imagination.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192568566
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
This is a book about readers: readers reading, and readers writing. They are readers of all ages and from all ages: young and old, male and female, from Europe and the Americas. The book they are reading is the Spanish chivalric romance AmadÃs de Gaula, known in English as Amadis de Gaule. Famous throughout the sixteenth century as the pinnacle of its fictional genre, the cultural functions of Amadis were further elaborated by the publication of Cervantes's Don Quixote in 1605, in which Amadis features as Quixote's favourite book. Amadis thereby becomes, as the philosopher Ortega y Gasset terms it, 'enclosed' within the modern novel and part of the imaginative landscape of British reader-authors such Mary Shelley, Smollett, Keats, Southey, Scott, and Thackeray. Amadis in English ranges from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, demonstrating through this 'biography' of a book the deep cultural, intellectual, and political connections of English, French, and Spanish literature across five centuries. Simultaneously an ambitious work of transnational literary history and a new intervention in the history of reading, this study argues that romance is historically located, culturally responsive, and uniquely flexible in the re-creative possibilities it offers readers. By revealing this hitherto unexamined reading experience connecting readers of all backgrounds, Amadis in English also offers many new insights into the politicisation of literary history; the construction and misconstruction of literary relations between England, France, and Spain; the practice and pleasures of reading fiction; and the enduring power of imagination.
Under the Hammer
Author: Robin Myers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This work examines book auctions since the 17th century. The auction has provided a commercial focus for sectors of the book trade for over four centuries. Initiated on the continent of Europe, the practice was adopted in London in the late 17th century, rapidly becoming a primary system for the collecting and dispersal of books. The development in the 19th century of the great London-based auction houses created a new commercial environment in which books and works of art became part of a worldwide cultural agenda. This volume is the 20th in the Publishing Pathways series.
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This work examines book auctions since the 17th century. The auction has provided a commercial focus for sectors of the book trade for over four centuries. Initiated on the continent of Europe, the practice was adopted in London in the late 17th century, rapidly becoming a primary system for the collecting and dispersal of books. The development in the 19th century of the great London-based auction houses created a new commercial environment in which books and works of art became part of a worldwide cultural agenda. This volume is the 20th in the Publishing Pathways series.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Bibliotheca Phillippica
Author: Sir Thomas Phillipps
Publisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Book Auction Records
Author: Frank Karslake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
New York Herald Tribune Books
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Prices of Books
Author: Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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