The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction
Zachary Lesser (Editor), Daniel Allington, David A. Brewer, Stephen Colclough, Siân Echard WILEY Blackwell 2019 Presented as a comprehensive, up-to-date narrative, The Book in Britain: A Historical Introduction explores the impact of books, manuscripts, and other kinds of material texts on the cultures and societies of the British Isles. The text clearly explains the technicalities […]
The Pluricentricity Debate
Stefan Dollinger Routledge Press 2019 This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study of World Englishes, which expressly allows for national standard varieties, and the notion of “pluri-areality,” which seeks to challenge the former. Looking at the debate from three […]
Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife
Gregory Mackie University of Toronto Press 2019 Borrowing its title from Oscar Wilde’s essay “The Decay of Lying,” this study engages questions of fraudulent authorship in the literary afterlife of Oscar Wilde. The unique cultural moment of Wilde’s early-twentieth-century afterlife, Gregory Mackie argues, afforded a space for marginal and transgressive forms of literary production that, […]
Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination
Vin Nardizzi and Tiffany Jo Werth, editors University of Toronto Press 2019 Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination explores how the cognitive and physical landscapes in which scholars conduct research, write, and teach have shaped their understandings of medieval and Renaissance English literary “oecologies.” Purchase this Book About the Editors Vin Nardizzi and Tiffany […]