Dawidowski Christian Dawidowski & Ehlers Swantje Ehlers 
Das Lesebuch als Bildungsmedium [PDF ebook] 
Vortraege des Giessener Symposiums zur Lesebuchforschung

Looks at the lives and politics of four of the key players in the independence and labour movements of the 19th century: Daniel O“Connell (1775-1847); Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91); Michael Davi …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Why was Milton so important to the Romantics? How did “Milton th …

This book chronicles travel writings of Bengali women in colonial India and explores the intersections of power, indigeneity, and the representations of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ in these writings. …

Regularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved public notoriety as the mistress of the young Prince of Wales (George IV). Her association with figures such as Wi …

The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare“s World explores Shakespeare“s complex art of insults and shows how the playwright set abusive words at the heart of many of his plays. It provides valuable in …

In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wider public for her witty, thought-provoking travel wr …

"Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast" by Kirk Munroe is an adventurous coming-of-age tale set against the rugged and wild backdrop of the Northwest Coast. The novel follows the young …

"The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe: Or, There’s No Place Like Home" by Amanda M. Douglas is a charming children’s literature book that brings to life the classic nursery rhyme in a delightf …

"The fatal glove" is a literary criticism and thrilling book written by Clara August. The book describes the story in a captivating way which follows the journey of Constance Danforth, a yo …

This is a well written and valuable study of the life of a familiar but still somehow shadowy figure and an important contribution to medieval intellectual history, with insights into the meaning of …