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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 786

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Author: Hannah Field
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452959595
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Victorian novelty picture books reshape the ways children read and interact with texts The Victorian era saw an explosion of novelty picture books with flaps to lift and tabs to pull, pages that could fold out, pop-up scenes, and even mechanical toys mounted on pages. Analyzing books for young children published between 1835 and 1914, Playing with the Book studies how these elaborately designed works raise questions not just about what books should look like but also about what reading is, particularly in relation to children’s literature and child readers. Novelty books promised (or threatened) to make reading a physical as well as intellectual activity, requiring the child to pull a tab or lift a flap to continue the story. These books changed the relationship between pictures, words, and format in both productive and troubling ways. Hannah Field considers these aspects of children’s reading through case studies of different formats of novelty and movable books and intensive examination of editions that have survived from the nineteenth century. She discovers that children ripped, tore, and colored in their novelty books—despite these books’ explicit instructions against such behaviors. Richly illustrated with images of these ingenious constructions, Playing with the Book argues that novelty books construct a process of reading that involves touch as well as sight, thus reconfiguring our understanding of the phenomenology of reading.

Author: James Anthony Froude
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 800

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Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.

Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385312744
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1150

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: Wakeman, Watkins
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Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 53

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First published in the year 1897, famous Russian novelist, playwright and social critique Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's play 'Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts' "portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yelena, to the rural estate that supports their urban lifestyle. Two friends—Vanya, brother of the professor's late first wife, who has long managed the estate, and Astrov, the local doctor—both fall under Yelena's spell, while bemoaning the ennui of their provincial existence. Sonya, the professor's daughter by his first wife, who has worked with Vanya to keep the estate going, suffers from her unrequited feelings for Dr. Astrov. Matters are brought to a crisis when the professor announces his intention to sell the estate, Vanya and Sonya's home, with a view to investing the proceeds to achieve a higher income for himself and his wife." -Wikipedia (Uncle Vanya)

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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Author: Amos Oz
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547483368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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A novel in stories by acclaimed Israeli author Amos Oz.

Author: Elizabeth K. Helsinger
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400864372
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Elizabeth Helsinger's iconoclastic book explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas of Britain. Despite the nostalgic appeal of Constable's or Tennyson's rural scenes, they record the severe social and economic disturbances of the turbulent years after Waterloo. Artists and writers like Cobbett, Clare, Turner, Emily Brontë, and George Eliot competed to claim the English countryside as ideological ground. No image of rural life produced consensus over the great questions: who should constitute the nation, and how should they be represented? Helsinger ponders how some images of rural life and land come to serve as national metaphors while others challenge their constructions of Englishness at the heart of the British Empire. Drawing on recent work in social history, nationalism, and geography, as well as the visual and literary arts, Helsinger recovers other possible and alternative readings of social ties embedded in the imagery of land. She reflects on the power of rural images to transfer local loyalties to the national scene, first popularizing then institutionalizing them. By turning a critical gaze on these scenes, she comments on the difference between art and ideology, and the problems and dangers of asserting any kind of national identity through imagery of the land. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.