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Writing Manuals for the Masses
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Anneleen Masschelein, Dirk de Geest

This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has non…

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978-3-030-53614-5
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New Directions in Book History
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XXII, 412
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Early Public Libraries and Colonial Citizenship in the British Southern Hemis…
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Lara Atkin, Sarah Comyn, Porscha Fermanis, Nathan Garvey

This open access Pivot book is a comparative study of six early colonial public libraries in nineteenth-century Australia, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Drawing on networked conceptualisations of empire, transnational frameworks, and ‘new imperial history’ paradigms that privilege imbricated colonial and metropolitan ‘intercultures’, it looks at the neglected role of public librarie…

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978-3-030-20426-6
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Series Title
New Directions in Book History
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XVII, 159