Literature publishing
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On Anthologies
Uncollecting Cheever
Nobody's story
Editing D. H. Lawrence
The Good Ship Venus
Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes
Victorian publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's work
Figures of speech
First books
Modernism and the culture of celebrity
Venus bound
About the Author
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century
The mysterious case of Nancy Drew & the Hardy boys
Shakespeare and Company
Author and printer in Victorian England
Licensing entertainment
A far cry from Kensington
Consuming books
Black Sun
Machado De Assiss Philosopher Or Dog From Serial To Book Form
The reenchantment of nineteenth-century fiction
Sir Philip Sidney and the circulation of manuscripts, 1558-1640
Kegan Paul - A Victorian Imprint
Christina Rossetti and illustration
Wrestling with the Muse
Visual words
Textual bodies
Steinbeck and Covici
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