ISBN: 9780754603603 - Re-constructing the Book: Literary Texts in Transmission (5 results)

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0754603601.…

Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. A nice, bright copy. ; 8vo; 231 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 231 pages. 8.50x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

8vo, (220x150mm), xii,231p. 7 illustrations. A very good copy in original black hardback boards, silver gilt lettered, dustjacket. This book offers an informed study of the processes by which a literary text reaches its readers; a presentation of the issues in publishing history that arise in particular periods of post-mediaeval English literature and seeks to integrate publishing history with critical readings of texts. Containing: Maureen Bell Introduction: the material text, Lynette Hunter Why has Q4 Romeo and Juliet such an intelligent editor? Paul Hammond Marvell's coy mistress, D.F. McKenzie Congreve and the integrity of the text, C.Y. Ferdinand The economics of the eighteenth-century provincial book trade: the case of Ward and Chandler, Roger Lonsdale Thomas Gray, David Hume and John Home's Douglas, David Fairer Coleridge's Sonnets from Various Authors (1796), Inga-Stina Ewbank Reading the Brontës abroad: a study in transmission of Victorian novels in continental Europe, Simon Eliot Sir Walter Scott, sex and the SoA, David Richards Making (pre-) history: Mycanae, Pausanias, Frazer, James L. West Editing private papers: three examples from Drieser, Martin Dodsworth Coercive suggestion: rhetoric and community in revaluation, Hermione Lee Re-reading Elizabeth Bowen, Alistair Stead `Drastic reductions': partial disclosures and displaced authorities in Muriel Spark's The Drivers Seat, Peter D. McDonald J.M. Coetzee and the burdens of censorship, Martin Butler Prospero in Cyberspace, Shirley Chew Texts and words in Amitav Ghosh's In An Antique Land, and Christopher Ricks Congratulations.…