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Digitally scanned versions of selected print literary commentary and criticism from Gale, including analysis from book excerpts, periodicals, and more. Titles included: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.

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The Oxford Companion to the Book, covers the book, broadly conceived, throughout the world from ancient to modern times. It includes traditional subjects such as bibliography, paleography, the history of printing, editorial theory and practice, textual criticism, book collecting, and libraries, but it also engages with newer disciplines such as the history of the book and the electronic book. It pays particular attention to how different societies shape books and how books shape societies.