This collection of original essays explores the relationship between publishing and literature in America. "Right at the leading edge of scholarship on the hist

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Literacy in the 21st century is about constructing and validating knowledge. Digital technologies have enabled the spread of all kinds of information, displacin

Roman Villas explores the social structures of the Roman world by analysing the plans of buildings of all sizes from slightly Romanized farms to palaces. The wa

Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. By telling their s