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A study of the cultural value of literary manuscripts that explores why they are traded, conserved, and coveted. It focuses on the history of manuscript collection from the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century, and the emerging strains of commercial, aesthetic, and heritage value driving it.

The electronic presentation of text has revolutionized the understanding and use of literary evidence. Formerly, readers and editors were obliged to choose one edition of a text in book form to work with and to treat other versions as ancillary. Now electronic editions of a text can incorporate all the various versions and revisions. This allows unconstrained access to a much greater range of information. This collection considers the role of ...

What does it mean to be starting an academic career in the twenty first century? What challenges and prospects are new academics facing and how are they dealing with these? This book provides answers to these questions through an investigation of the experiences of early career academics in New Zealand universities. Filling a gap in the international literature on the academic profession by providing a comprehensive overview of the experiences...

Sociology Through Film uses feature films to teach central areas in sociology such as culture, race/ethnicity, social class, and gender/sexuality. By using Film to introduce the sociological imagination, students will 'experience' social context being studied, and reinforce critical thinking skills. An introductory chapter includes a discussion of the significance of film in modern society, a consideration of the ways that film both reflects a...

Traditional critical editing is considered by many to be inadequate for the expression and interpretation of complex works of literature. This book discusses whether and how paradigms for developing and using critical editions are changing to reflect the increased commitment to and assumed significance of digital tools and methodologies.

What does it mean to be starting an academic career in the twenty first century? What challenges and prospects are new academics facing and how are they dealing with these? This book provides answers to these questions through an investigation of the experiences of early career academics in New Zealand universities. Filling a gap in the international literature on the academic profession by providing a comprehensive overview of the experiences...

This is a new kind of critical study of Jane Austen, an author we think we all know. It is shaped by an enquiry into the ways her texts and her reputation have been constructed from manuscript, in the printing process, through editing, family censorship and continuations, biographical invention, and up to recent film adaptations.

Kathryn Sutherland presents an edition of the fiction manuscripts of Jane Austen: the first substantial collection of autograph writings to survive for a British novelist. Volume V contains the facsimile and facing-page transcription of Sanditon, and the appendices to the edition.

An authoritative edition of Austen's legacy in manuscript~Will appeal to anyone interested in textual studies and the relationship between print and non-print media~Offers a new perspective on a much-loved and familiar literary great~Presents facing-page facsimile images and a full commentary on the manuscripts~Will transform the field of Austen studies

An authoritative edition of Austen's legacy in manuscript~Will appeal to anyone interested in textual studies and the relationship between print and non-print media~Offers a new perspective on a much-loved and familiar literary great~Presents facing-page facsimile images and a full commentary on the manuscripts~Will transform the field of Austen studies

An authoritative edition of Austen's legacy in manuscript~Will appeal to anyone interested in textual studies and the relationship between print and non-print media~Offers a new perspective on a much-loved and familiar literary great~Presents facing-page facsimile images and a full commentary on the manuscripts~Will transform the field of Austen studies

An authoritative edition of Austen's legacy in manuscript~Will appeal to anyone interested in textual studies and the relationship between print and non-print media~Offers a new perspective on a much-loved and familiar literary great~Presents facing-page facsimile images and a full commentary on the manuscripts~Will transform the field of Austen studies

The thirteen letters collected by Jane Austen's House Museum, in Chawton, give us intimate glimpses into her life in Bath and Chawton and on visits to London, many details finding echoes in her fiction. Brought together in this book, these artefacts make a delightful modern-day keepsake of correspondence from one of the world's best-loved writers.

This collection of essays offers an intimate history of Austen's art and life told through objects associated with her personally and with the era in which she lived. Her teenage notebooks, music albums, pelisse-coat, letters and the portraits made of her during her life all feature in this lavishly illustrated collection.

An authoritative edition of Austen's legacy in manuscript~Will appeal to anyone interested in textual studies and the relationship between print and non-print media~Offers a new perspective on a much-loved and familiar literary great~Presents facing-page facsimile images and a full commentary on the manuscripts~Will transform the field of Austen studies

Cinematic Sociology is a one-of-a-kind resource that helps students to view films sociologically while also providing much needed pedagogy for teaching sociology through film. In this engaging text the authors take readers beyond watching movies and help them see films sociologically while also developing critical thinking and analytical skills that will be useful in college coursework and beyond. The book's 15 essays from expert scholars in s...