Author: John Kucich
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN: 0199560617
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
Author: John Kucich
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN: 0199560617
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN: 0199560617
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
The Oxford History of English
Author: Lynda Mugglestone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199660166
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
This text traces the language from its obscure Indo-European roots to its 21st-century position as the world's first language. It describes the history of English within the British Isles, its changing roles in different places, and its rise to global pre-eminence.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199660166
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
This text traces the language from its obscure Indo-European roots to its 21st-century position as the world's first language. It describes the history of English within the British Isles, its changing roles in different places, and its rise to global pre-eminence.
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book
Author: James Raven
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191007501
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present. Leading international scholars offer an original and richly illustrated narrative that is global in scope. The history of the book is the history of millions of written, printed, and illustrated texts, their manufacture, distribution, and reception. Here are different types of production, from clay tablets to scrolls, from inscribed codices to printed books, pamphlets, magazines, and newspapers, from written parchment to digital texts. The history of the book is a history of different methods of circulation and dissemination, all dependent on innovations in transport, from coastal and transoceanic shipping to roads, trains, planes and the internet. It is a history of different modes of reading and reception, from learned debate and individual study to public instruction and entertainment. It is a history of manufacture, craftsmanship, dissemination, reading and debate. Yet the history of books is not simply a question of material form, nor indeed of the history of reading and reception. The larger question is of the effect of textual production, distribution and reception - of how books themselves made history. To this end, each chapter of this volume, succinctly bounded by period and geography, offers incisive and stimulating insights into the relationship between books and the story of their times.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191007501
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present. Leading international scholars offer an original and richly illustrated narrative that is global in scope. The history of the book is the history of millions of written, printed, and illustrated texts, their manufacture, distribution, and reception. Here are different types of production, from clay tablets to scrolls, from inscribed codices to printed books, pamphlets, magazines, and newspapers, from written parchment to digital texts. The history of the book is a history of different methods of circulation and dissemination, all dependent on innovations in transport, from coastal and transoceanic shipping to roads, trains, planes and the internet. It is a history of different modes of reading and reception, from learned debate and individual study to public instruction and entertainment. It is a history of manufacture, craftsmanship, dissemination, reading and debate. Yet the history of books is not simply a question of material form, nor indeed of the history of reading and reception. The larger question is of the effect of textual production, distribution and reception - of how books themselves made history. To this end, each chapter of this volume, succinctly bounded by period and geography, offers incisive and stimulating insights into the relationship between books and the story of their times.
The Victorian Novel
Author: Francis O'Gorman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470779853
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470779853
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
The American Novel to 1870
Author: J. Gerald Kennedy
Publisher: Oxford History of the Novel in
ISBN: 0195385357
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.
Publisher: Oxford History of the Novel in
ISBN: 0195385357
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.
Century
Author: Fred Mustard Stewart
Publisher: G K Hall & Company
ISBN: 9780816136353
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Chronicles the lives of the two branches of a European and American Italian family through 100 years.
Publisher: G K Hall & Company
ISBN: 9780816136353
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Chronicles the lives of the two branches of a European and American Italian family through 100 years.
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199609934
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199609934
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.
The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Author: Andrew Sanders
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198186960
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
A guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. The volume includes information on Old and Middle English, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the 17th and 18th centuries, the Romantics, Victorian and Edwardian literature, Modernism, and post-war writing.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198186960
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
A guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. The volume includes information on Old and Middle English, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the 17th and 18th centuries, the Romantics, Victorian and Edwardian literature, Modernism, and post-war writing.
The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950
Author: Simon Gikandi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190628162
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering these questions and more, Volume 11, The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and social peculiarities of Africa and the Caribbean impacts not only the writing and reading of novels in those regions, but also has a transformative effect on the novel as a global phenomenon. Together, the volume's 32 contributing experts tell a story about the close relationship between the novel and the project of decolonization, and explore the multiple ways in which novels enable readers to imagine communities beyond their own and thus made this form of literature a compelling catalyst for cultural transformation. The authors show that, even as the novel grows in Africa and the Caribbean as a mark of the elites' mastery of European form, it becomes the essential instrument for critiquing colonialism and for articulating the new horizons of cultural nationalism. Within this historical context, the volume examines works by authors such as Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Zoe Wicomb, J. M. Coetzee, and many others.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190628162
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering these questions and more, Volume 11, The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and social peculiarities of Africa and the Caribbean impacts not only the writing and reading of novels in those regions, but also has a transformative effect on the novel as a global phenomenon. Together, the volume's 32 contributing experts tell a story about the close relationship between the novel and the project of decolonization, and explore the multiple ways in which novels enable readers to imagine communities beyond their own and thus made this form of literature a compelling catalyst for cultural transformation. The authors show that, even as the novel grows in Africa and the Caribbean as a mark of the elites' mastery of European form, it becomes the essential instrument for critiquing colonialism and for articulating the new horizons of cultural nationalism. Within this historical context, the volume examines works by authors such as Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Zoe Wicomb, J. M. Coetzee, and many others.