This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigran ... 続きを読む
Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature
What does reading mean in the twenty-first century? As other disciplines challenge literary criticism's authority to answer this question, English professors are defining new alternatives to close rea ... 続きを読む
An engaging and authoritative guide to the impact of reading medium on learning, from a foremost expert in the field We face constant choices about how we read. Educators must select classroom mate ... 続きを読む
Social Media: Enduring Principles offers a comprehensive overview of topics in social media, from interpersonal communication to the role of social media in culture and society. It covers not only cul ... 続きを読む
Abridges the key information on British names from The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Britain and Ireland in a more accessible one-volume format
Includes almost all the British na ... 続きを読む
An extensive introduction gives the history and formation of Irish family names, of Gaelic and English-language origin, and the research methods and sources used to compile this dictionary
Covers ... 続きを読む
Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary British women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories o ... 続きを読む
