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Languages : en
Pages : 156
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The Lady of the Library
Author: Angie KarcherPublisher:
ISBN: 9781534111028
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Together a ghost and a girl make it their mission to save the local library that is scheduled for demolition.
The book of riddles, by the editress of 'The lady's library'. (Pastimes for the parlour).
Author: BookThe young lady's parental monitor. The lady's library; or, parental monitor: ... A new edition
Author: LADY.The Library World
Author: Book of Ages
Author: Jill LeporePublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307958345
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a wholly different account of the founding of the United States.
The Whore's Story
Author: Bradford K. MudgePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198030878
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
This fresh and persuasively argued book examines the origins of pornography in Britain and presents a comprehensive overview of women's role in the evolution of obscene fiction. Carefully monitoring the complex interconnections between three related debates--that over the masquerade, that over the novel, and that over prostitution--Mudge contextualizes the growing literary need to separate good fiction from bad and argues that that process was of crucial importance to the emergence of a new, middle-class state. Looking closely at sermons, medical manuals, periodical essays, and political tracts as well as poetry, novels, and literary criticism, The Whore's Story tracks the shifting politics of pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain and charts the rise of modern, pornographic sensibilities.
The Library World
Author: The Private Library
Author: Arthur Lee HumphreysPublisher:
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Libraries in Literature
Author: Alice CrawfordPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192668269
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in imaginative writing. Covering fiction, poetry, and drama from the late Middle Ages to the present, it runs the gamut of British and American literature, as well as examining a range of fiction in other languages—from Rabelais and Cervantes to modern and contemporary French, Italian, Japanese, and Russian writing. While the tropes of the complex catalogue and the bibliomaniacal reader persist throughout the centuries, libraries also emerge as societal battle-sites where issues of personality, gender, cultural power, and national identity are contested repeatedly and often in surprising ways. As well as examining how libraries were deployed in their work by canonical authors from Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Swift to Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Jorge Luis Borges, the volume also examines in detail the haunted libraries of Margaret Oliphant and M. R. James, and a range of much less familiar historic and contemporary authors. Alert to the depiction of librarians as well as of book-rooms and institutional readers, this book will inform, entertain, and delight. At a time when traditional libraries are under pressure, Libraries in Literature shows the power of their lasting fascination.
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