This essay collection explores the cultural functions the printed book performs in the digital age. It examines how the use of and attitude toward the book form

This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls’ experience. It brings together scholars from

From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Puerto Rico was swept by a wave of modernization, transforming the island from a predominantly rural society to an unque

Wherever we look today, popular culture greets us with “texts” that make implicit arguments; this book helps students to think and write critically about th

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