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“james mclaverty”

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  • Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book

    Edited by Paddy Bullard, James McLaverty ...
    Jonathan Swift lived through a period of turbulence and innovation in the evolution of the book. His publications, perhaps more than those of any other single author, illustrate the range of developments that transformed print culture during the early Enlightenment. Swift was a prolific author and a frequent visitor at the printing house, and he wrote as critic and satirist about the nature of ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • Scratch

    Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living

    by Manjula Martin ...
    A collection of essays from today’s most acclaimed authors—from Cheryl Strayed to Roxane Gay to Jennifer Weiner, Alexander Chee, Nick Hornby, and Jonathan Franzen—on the realities of making a living in the writing world.In the literary world, the debate around writing and commerce often begs us to take sides: either writers should be paid for everything they do or writers should just pay their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Sidney's 'The Defence of Poesy' and Selected Renaissance Literary Criticism

    by Gavin Alexander ...
    Controversy raged through England during the 1570-80s as Puritans denounced all manner of games & pastimes as a danger to public morals. Writers quickly turrned their attention to their own art and the first & most influential response came with Philip Sidney's Defense. Here he set out to answer contemporary critics &, with reference to Classical models of criticism, formulated a manifesto for ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Self-Editing Your Novel: an editor's tips to make your work shine

    by Kathy Stewart ...
    Are you a fiction writer? Do you need help with editing your work prior to publishing? Self-Editing Your Novel is designed for all those who are writing fiction, namely novels, but it could also be used as a guide for those writing short stories and even non-fiction. So whether you're writing about love and romance, an epic journey, a family saga, murder, mystery, or some other genre of creative ... Read more

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  • The Short Fuse Guide to Book Proposals

    Short Fuse Guides, #2

    by Gordon Warnock ...
    Series Book 2 - Short Fuse Guides
    Literary Agent Gordon Warnock walks you through writing the kind of book proposal that makes agents and acquisitions editors want to work with you. Learn what to include, what to avoid, and what will help you stand above the rest.You need a book proposal to pitch all types of non-fiction, but if you're writing fiction, a strong "marketing proposal" becomes your secret weapon. This document, with ... Read more

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  • The Backward Approach to Ebook Success

    by Ted Summerfield ...
    This ebook describes what mistakes to avoid when first starting out as a self-publisher of ebooks and which steps to take to increase your likelihood for success. Inside are important do's and don'ts on marketing ebooks, pricing ebooks, and using social networks. It also provides valuable sales and genre data, and demonstrates how using the personal knowledge and experiences described in this ... Read more

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  • The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

    by Christopher Flint ...
    Eighteenth-century fiction holds an unusual place in the history of modern print culture. The novel gained prominence largely because of advances in publishing, but, as a popular genre, it also helped shape those very developments. Authors in the period manipulated the appearance of the page and print technology more deliberately than has been supposed, prompting new forms of reception among ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Interactions between Orality and Writing in Early Modern Italian Culture

    Edited by Luca Degl’Innocenti, Brian Richardson, Chiara Sbordoni ...
    Investigating the interrelationships between orality and writing in elite and popular textual culture in early modern Italy, this volume shows how the spoken or sung word on the one hand, and manuscript or print on the other hand, could have interdependent or complementary roles to play in the creation and circulation of texts. The first part of the book centres on performances, ranging from ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Blindness and Enlightenment: An Essay

    With a new translation of Diderot's 'Letter on the Blind' and La Mothe Le Vayer's 'Of a Man Born Blind'

    by Dr Kate E. Tunstall ...
    Blindness and Enlightenment presents a reading and a new translation of Diderot's Letter on the Blind. Diderot was the editor of the Encyclopédie, that Trojan horse of Enlightenment ideas, as well as a novelist, playwright, art critic and philosopher. His Letter on the Blind of 1749 is essential reading for anyone interested in Enlightenment philosophy or eighteenth-century literature because it ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Scholarship, Commerce, Religion

    The Learned Book in the Age of Confessions, 1560–1630

    by Ian Maclean ...
    A decade ago in the Times Literary Supplement, Roderick Conway Morris claimed that “almost everything that was going to happen in book publishing—from pocket books, instant books and pirated books, to the concept of author’s copyright, company mergers, and remainders—occurred during the early days of printing.” Ian Maclean’s colorful survey of the flourishing learned book trade of the late ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • A Bibliography of William Wordsworth

    1787–1930

    by Mark L. Reed ...
    The publishing history of William Wordsworth's writings is complex and often obscure. These two volumes set out, for the first time, a comprehensive, detailed bibliographic description of every edition of Wordsworth's writings up to 1930. The great variety of forms in which readers encountered both authorized and unauthorized texts by Wordsworth is revealed, not only as produced during his ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

  • Publishing on Kindle

    by Wayne Evans ...
    The growth in Kindle has simply been stunning.Physical sales of Amazon's little gem, means that more Americans own one than do not! As a result, the number of titles available to buy and now borrow through KDP Select has grown to around 800,000 today.Most experts predict that this phenomenon will continue to escalate as mobile devices such as iPhone with Kindle apps now enter the fray!If you have ... Read more

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