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  • Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750

    Studies in Social Rank and Communication

    by Elspeth Jajdelska ...
    Filling an important gap in the history of print and reading, Elspeth Jajdelska offers a new account of the changing relationship between speech, rank and writing from 1600 to 1750. Jajdelska draws on anthropological findings to shed light on the different ways that speech was understood to relate to writing across the period, bringing together status and speech, literary and verbal decorum, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Mediation and Children's Reading

    Relationships, Intervention, and Organization from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

    by Anne Marie Hagen, Susan Alteri, Evelyn Arizpe, Tracy Cooper, Emma Davidson, Rebecca Davies, Jennifer Farrar, Elspeth Jajdelska, Fiona McCulloch, Sue Walker0 ...
    Series series Studies in Text & Print Culture
    This collection of essays explores the cultural significance of children’s reading by analyzing a series of Anglo-American case studies from the eighteenth century to the present. Marked by historical continuity and technological change, children’s reading proves to be a phenomenon with broad influence, one that shapes both the development of individual readers and wider social values. The essays ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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  • Medical Writing in Early Modern English

    Edited by Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
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  • The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

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