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  • Samuel Richardson as Anonymous Editor and Printer

    Recycling Texts for the Book Market

    by John A. Dussinger ...
    During the first two decades of his career, Richardson’s role as printer was hardly limited to setting the type for the periodicals that issued from his shop. Perhaps the most glaring evidence of his intervention in producing text is the fact that both The True Briton (1723-24) and The Weekly Miscellany (1732-41) just happen to have letters supposedly from women who protest the legal restraints ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson

    Resisting Secularism

    by Melvyn New, Donald R. Wehrs, John A. Dussinger, Regina Janes, E. Derek Taylor, Robert G. Walker, Patrick Müller, Steven Scherwatzky, Katherine Kickel0, Nicholas Seager1, Geoff Newton2, Ryan J. Stark3, Brett C. McInelly4, Paul Tankard5, Deborah Heller6, Frans de Bruyn7, Roger D. Lund8, Nathalie Zimpfer9 ...
    Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism contains seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches and ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Correspondence with George Cheyne and Thomas Edwards

    by Samuel Richardson ...
    Series Book 2 - The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson
    Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), among the most important and influential English novelists, was also a prolific letter writer. Beyond its extraordinary range, his correspondence holds special interest as that of a practising epistolary novelist, who thought long and hard about the letter as a form. The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson is the first complete edition of his ... Read more

    $154.19 USD

  • Correspondence with Sarah Wescomb, Frances Grainger and Laetitia Pilkington

    by Samuel Richardson ...
    Series Book 3 - The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson
    Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), renowned master printer and celebrated English novelist, wrote hundreds of letters during his lifetime. The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson is the first complete edition of these letters. This volume contains his correspondences, many published for the first time, with three very different young women, all seeking to find their voice ... Read more

    $127.99 USD

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    “Successful Methods of Public Speaking” is a 1920 guide to public speaking by American writer Grenville Kleiser. It contains a wealth of useful information and tips for the orator, as well as analyses of notable speeches, a look at the history, and much more that will be of considerable utility to those with an interest in learning or honing existing public speaking skills. Grenville Kleiser (1868 ... Read more

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  • An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (Old Edition)

    by Jane Collier ...
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    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...
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  • The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen House

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    First published in 1759, this novel aims to promote the cause of the Magdalen House, a charity which sought to rehabilitate prostitutes by fitting them for a life of virtuous industry. It challenges long-standing prejudices against prostitutes by presenting them as victims of inadequate education, male libertinism and sexual double standards. ... Read more

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