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Authors: Matthew P. M. Kerr
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-27 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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To write about the sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to do so against a vast accretion of past deeds, patterns of thought, and particularl
The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language
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Authors: Matthew Peter Milton Kerr
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This book shows how prose writers in the Victorian period grappled with the sea as a setting, a shaper of plot and character, as a structuring motif, and as a s
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
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Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-27 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table
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A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece—from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Amb
Conspicuous Silences
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