The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century 9781771965415, 9781771965422

The digital literary sphere : reading, writing, and selling books in the Internet era 9781421426099, 1421426099

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Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America 9780812206180

This book argues that the practice of reading in nineteenth-century America was rooted in fantasies of communion. In han

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The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home 9780300228106

A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth centu

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Books and Religious Devotion: The Redemptive Reading of an Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New England 9780271065106

In Books and Religious Devotion, Allan Westphall presents a study of the book-collecting habits and annotation practices

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Reading is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women's Prisons 0807833525, 9780807833520, 0807871001, 9780807871003

Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use avai

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The lost art of reading: why books matter in a distracted time 9781570616709, 1570616701

Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In The Lost Art of Reading

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Books on the Border Land: A Mennonite woman's memoir of reading and remembering the sacred 9780494645871

This arts-based thesis, written from my perspective as a Manitoba Mennonite woman and English Language Arts educator, is

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Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009 9780773586079

The first decade of the twenty-first century was noteworthy for war, terror, religious revival, economic collapse, and a

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Reading the 21st Century : Books of the Decade, 2000-2009 [1 ed.] 9780773586079, 9780773539099

In wide-ranging and innovative criticism, Stan Persky examines international non-fiction and fiction to engage with both

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Bodies and Books : Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America [1 ed.] 9780812206180, 9780812244151

In nineteenth-century America, Gillian Silverman contends, reading--and particularly book reading--precipitated intense

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