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The irresistible rise of Harry Potter
From playhouse to printing house
The passionate years
Making the modern reader
The Accident
Hired pens
Shakespeare's fight with the pirates and the problems of the transmission of his text
The rise of supernatural fiction, 1762-1800
An aesthetic underground
The great pursuit
Modes of Production of Victorian Novels
The world's best books
Exiled in Paris
Sterne, the moderns, and the novel
The raven and the whale
Dickens' fur coat and Charlotte's unanswered letters
Literature in the marketplace
The butterfly books
Globalization and Literature Themes in TwentiethCentury Literature and Culture
The myth of superwoman
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
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