Notes And Queries; A Medium Of Intercommunication For Literary Men, General Readers Fifth Series (Volume I)
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
11.10.2020
Verlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
556
Maße (L/B/H)
28/21.6/3 cm
Gewicht
1381 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5421-281-9
A Victorian forum for literary minds and curious readers. Notes And Queries: A Medium Of Intercommunication For Literary Men, General Readers - Fifth Series (Volume I) gathers the brisk commerce of questions, answers and learned notes that fuelled nineteenth-century debate and scholarship. Questions that still resonate today. More than an archive, it is a living victorian literary journal and nineteenth century periodical where brief correspondences, antiquarian finds and short critical pieces meet: an english literature anthology in miniature, a literary correspondence collection and a scholarly essays compilation rolled into one. Its pages deliver historical literary criticism in the raw - observations on authorship, textual variants, local lore and publishing gossip - material prized by classic literature enthusiasts and indispensable as a reference for researchers. Valued then and now, Notes and Queries sat at the centre of nineteenth century publishing and the networks of Victorian scholarship, offering first-hand traces for victorian england studies and for anyone tracing the slow work of literary history. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Casual readers will find episodic pleasure and surprise; librarians, bibliographers and students will value it as a literary magazine compendium and resource for book collectors while scholars will use it as a primary reference for researchers. Its conversational format rewards both quick dips and sustained study: dip in to follow a single query, or read through strands of correspondence that illuminate authorship, local history and the mechanics of nineteenth century publishing. A sensible addition to research libraries and to the shelves of classic literature enthusiasts, this edition honours the periodical's original character while offering clean, readable presentation for today's readers. As both a primary-source tool and a readable compendium, it rewards the casual browser, enriches the teaching syllabus and serves the specialist in equal measure. Handy for classroom use or deep scholarship, the volume bridges pleasure and rigorous research.
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