Ruth Ferris (21 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine illustrated softcover. 8vo. 197 pp. Photos; notes. Ships fast with tracking.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Palmistry at a Glance. Book.

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paperback. Condition: Very Good. 38 page exhibition catalog is illustrated with color photos of sculpture that uses fabric and garments to tell a story. Very light corner rubbing, scuffed on rear. Exhibition at John Michael Kohler Arts Center in 1994. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.…

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Good trade paperback, slight wear and creasing.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A very good copy of the presumed first softcover edition (no explicit edition or printing statement). One faint pen-strike to front endsheet, else the text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding bright and fresh in appearance, with moderate wear at the extremities. A sharp copy.…

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Paperback book, chipped card covers, gold end papers, spine section gone , rear cover crease. 77 pages.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2015 OUP hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. Volume 2 examines the period from1750-1820, which was a crucial period in the development of the novel in English. Not only was it the time of Smollett, Sterne, Austen, and Scott, but it also saw the establishment and definition of the novel as we know it, as well as the emergence of a number of subgenres, several of which remain to this day. Conventionally however, it has been one of the least studied areas-seen as a falling off from the heyday of Richardson and Fielding, or merely a prelude to the great Victorian novelists. This volume takes full advantage of recent major advances in scholarly bibliography, new critical assessments, and the fresh availability of long-neglected fictional works, to offer a new mapping and appraisal. The opening section, as well as some remarkable later chapters, consider historical conditions underlying the production, circulation, and reception of fiction during these seventy years, a period itself marked by a rapid growth in output and expansion in readership. Other chapters cover the principal forms, movements, and literary themes of the period, with individual contributions on the four major novelists (named above), seen in historical context, as well as others on adjacent fields such as the shorter tale, magazine fiction, children's literature, and drama. The volume also views the novel in the light of other major institutions of modern literary culture, including book reviewing and the reprint trade, all of which played a part in advancing a sense of the novel as a defining feature of the British cultural landscape. A focus on 'global' literature and imported fiction in two concluding chapters in turn reflects a broader concern for transnational literary studies in general. Contents: Part I: Book Production and Distribution 1. Production - James Raven 2. Authorship - Peter Garside 3. Circulation - David Allan Part II: Major Authors and Traditions 4. The Novel in the 1750s - E. J. Clery 5. Tobias Smollett and the Ramble Novel - Simon Dickie 6. The Novelty of Laurence Sterne - James Chandler 7. Sentimental Fiction of the 1760s and 1770s - Helen Thompson 8. Bluestocking Women and Rational Female Fiction - Betty A. Schellenberg 9. The Novel of Sensibility in the 1780s - Caroline Franklin 10. Early Gothic Novels and the Belief in Fiction - Deidre Lynch 11. The Novel Wars of 1790-1804 - Jon Mee 12. The National Tale - Claire Connolly 13. Gothic and Anti-Gothic, 1797-1820 - Robert Miles 14. Evangelical Fiction - Anthony Mandal 15. Jane Austen's Domestic Realism - Vivien Jones 16. Historical Romance - Ina Ferris 17. Walter Scott and the Historical Novel - Ian Duncan Part III: Generic Variations and Narrative Structures 18. It-Narratives and Spy Novels - Lynn Festa 19. Philosophical and Oriental Tales - Ros Ballaster 20. Epistolary Fiction - Nicola J. Watson 21. Celebrity and Scandalous Fiction - Clara Tuite Part IV: Contexts 22. All in the Family: Consanguinity, Marriage, and Property - Ruth Perry 23. Fictions of the Union - Thomas Keymer 24. Imperial Commerce, Gender, and Slavery - Deirdre Coleman Part V: Alternative Forms of Fiction 25. Fiction in the Magazines - Gillian Hughes 26. Short Fictional Forms and the Rise of the Tale - Anthony Jarrells 27. Children's and Juvenile Literature - M. O. Grenby 28. The Novel and the Stage - Gillian Russell Part VI: Assimilation and Cultural Interchanges 29. Assimilating the Novel: Reviews and Collections - Michael Gamer 30. Readers and Reading Practices - Stephen Colclough 31. The Global British Novel - Wil Verhoeven 32. Foreign Imports - Jenny Mander Afterword 33. The Rise of the 'Rise' of the Novel - Clifford Siskin.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No DJ. 1st Edition. DESCRIPTION: Red oversized textured card covers with gold title plate pasted to front cover. Gold endpapers. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Light wear and creasing to oversized edges and spine. Tightly bound. Lightly toned unmarked pages DJ Condition: No DJ. Pages 76. Size: 16mo 18cm by 13cm. Not signed.…

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1955 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 358 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 358.…