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LITERATURE 30 Breaking the Book Print Humanities in the Digital Age La ura Mandell ✤✤ Explores the reasons why the traditional humanities disciplines are resistant to 'digital humanities' ✤✤ Reveals facets of book history, offering it as an example of how different media shape our modes of thinking and feeling ✤✤ Gathers together the most important book history and literary criticism concerning the hundred years leading up to the early 19th-century emergence of mass print culture ✤✤ Predicts effects of the digital revolution on disciplinarity, expertise, and the institutional restructuring of the humanities Print ISBN: 978-1-118-27455-2 (Cloth) US$90.00 • Apr 2015 • 240PP Online ISBN: 978-1-118-27453-8 The American Short Story Handbook James Nag el ✤✤ Includes a selection of writers chosen not only for their contributions of individual stories but for bodies of work that advanced the boundaries of short fiction, including Washington Irving, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tim O'Brien ✤✤ Addresses the ways in which American oral storytelling and other narrative traditions were integral to the formation and flourishing of the short story genre ✤✤ Written in accessible and engaging prose for students at all levels by a renowned literary scholar to illuminate an important genre that has received short shrift in scholarly literature of the last century ✤✤ Includes a glossary defining the most common terms used in literary history and in critical discussions of fiction, and a bibliography of works for further study Print ISBN: 978-0-470-65541-2 (Cloth) US$99.95 / 978-0-470-65542-9 (Paper) US$29.95 • Feb 2015 • 328PP ISBN 047065541-0 Literary Biography The Life of Daniel Defoe A Critical Biography John Richett i ✤✤ Examines the entire range of Defoe's writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. ✤✤ Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe's political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his narrative fictions, including Robinson Crusoe ✤✤ Places emphasis on Defoe's distinctive style and rhetoric ✤✤ Situates his work within the precise historical circumstances of the eighteenth-century in which Defoe was an important and active participant Print ISBN: 978-1-119-04530-4 (Paper) US$59.95 • Apr 2015 • 424PP English Literature A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance Cherene Sherrard-Johnson ✤✤ Represents the most comprehensive coverage of themes and unique new perspectives on the Harlem Renaissance available ✤✤ Features original contributions from both emerging scholars of the Harlem Renaissance and established academic “stars” in the field ✤✤ Offers a variety of interdisciplinary features, such as the section on visual and expressive arts, that emphasize the collaborative nature of the era ✤✤ Includes “Spotlight Readings” featuring lesser known figures of the Harlem Renaissance and newly discovered or undervalued writings by canonical figures Print ISBN: 978-1-118-49406-6 (Cloth) US$191.95 • JUN 2015 • 512PP Online ISBN: 978-1-118-49411-0   ISBN 111827455-5 9 781118 274552 Lead Title ISBN 047065542-9 9 780470 655429 9 780470 655412   The Life of Daniel Defoe ISBN 111904530-4 9 781119 045304   ISBN 111849406-7 9 781118 494066


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