Ebook > Human Sciences > Languages > Literature > M. R. James: The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (ePUB)

M. R. James
The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Support

Adobe DRM

Cover of M. R. James: The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (ePUB)

Published in 1919, this volume is a change of pace from an author best known for his classic ghost stories. It is a history of the transmission of manuscripts from one area, culture, or age, to another. The author’s moral: ‘Be inquisitive. See books for yourself; do not trust that the cataloguer has told you everything.’

€1.99

About the author

Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), better known as M. R. James, was an English medieval scholar who is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential ghost story writers. He replaced the gothic staples with contemporary, realistic settings. Notable collections include Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919), and A Warning to the Curious (1925). His stories have often been adapted for radio and the stage.

Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 100 ● ISBN 9781411456396 ● File size 0.2 MB ● Age 99-17 years ● Publisher Barnes & Noble ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5864053 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

Requires a DRM capable ebook reader

More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor

65,963 Ebooks in this category

Cover of Enid Porter: Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore (RLE Folklore)

Enid Porter: Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore (RLE Folklore)

Enid Porter spent many years collecting and recording from Cambridgeshire people the folk beliefs and customs held and observed in the country, both past and present. The subjects covered in the book …

Cover of Professor Todd Martin: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield

Professor Todd Martin: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine Mansfield

Through her formally innovative and psychologically insightful short stories, Katherine Mansfield is increasingly recognised as one of the central figures in early 20th-century modernism. Bringing …

Cover of Lauren M. E. (Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) Goodlad: Victorian Literature and the Victorian State

Lauren M. E. (Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) Goodlad: Victorian Literature and the Victorian State

Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault”s groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, according to Lauren Goodlad, Foucault”s an …

Cover of Tony E. (Associate Professor, University of North Carolina–Charlotte) Jackson: Technology of the Novel

Tony E. (Associate Professor, University of North Carolina–Charlotte) Jackson: Technology of the Novel

2009 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice The connection between speech and writing in human language has been a matter of philosophical debate since antiquity. By plumbing the depths of this complex …

Cover of Lynn (University of Wisconsin) Festa: Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

Lynn (University of Wisconsin) Festa: Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

In this ambitious and original study, Lynn Festa examines how and why sentimental fiction became one of the primary ways of representing British and French relations with colonial populations in the …

Cover of Wenjin (University of New Hampshire) Cui: Lu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics

Wenjin (University of New Hampshire) Cui: Lu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics

This book explores an extraordinary case of affirmative biopolitics through the study of Lu Xun (1881–1936), the most prominent cultural figure of modern China. Diverging from the Enlightenment-human …

Cover of Waseem Anwar & Nosheen Yousaf: Transcultural Humanities in South Asia

Waseem Anwar & Nosheen Yousaf: Transcultural Humanities in South Asia

This volume looks at the implications of transcultural humanities in South Asia, which is becoming a crucial area of research within literary and cultural studies. The volume also explores vario …

Cover of Brett Ashley Kaplan: Critical Memory Studies

Brett Ashley Kaplan: Critical Memory Studies

Bringing together a diverse array of new and established scholars and creative writers in the rapidly expanding field of memory studies, this collection creatively delves into the multiple aspects of …

Cover of Professor Suzanne Magnanini: A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Age of the Marvelous

Professor Suzanne Magnanini: A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Age of the Marvelous

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Drawing on the contributions of scholars working on Italian, Fren …

Cover of Professor Susan Aronstein: A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Middle Ages

Professor Susan Aronstein: A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Middle Ages

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Spanning the years from 900 to 1500 and traversing geographical bor …