Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world.

Books Without Borders, Volume 1: The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture

Literature & Fiction

FRASER, ROBERT

Hammond, Mary

Essays & Correspondence

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Charles Dickens's Great Expectations: A Cultural Life, 1860–2012 (Ashgate Studies in Publishing History Manuscript, Print, Digital)

History & Criticism

Routledge

Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914 (The Nineteenth Century Series)

Between 1880 and 1914, England saw the emergence of an unprecedented range of new literary forms from Modernism to the popular thriller. Not coincidentally, this period also marked the first overt references to an art/market divide through which books took on new significance as markers of taste and class. Though this division has received considerable attention relative to the narrative structures of the period's texts, little attention has been paid to the institutions and ideologies that largely determined a text's accessibility and circulated format and thus its mode of address to specific readerships. Hammond addresses this gap in scholarship, asking the following key questions: How did publishing and distribution practices influence reader choice? Who decided whether or not a book was a 'classic'? In a patriarchal, class-bound literary field, how were the symbolic positions of 'author' and 'reader' affected by the increasing numbers of women who not only bought and borrowed, but also wrote novels? Using hitherto unexamined archive material and focussing in detail on the working practices of publishers and distributors such as Oxford University Press and W.H. Smith and Sons, Hammond combines the methodologies of sociology, literary studies and book history to make an original and important contribution to our understanding of the cultural dynamics and rhetorics of the fin-de-siècle literary field in England.

The Picturebook: Source and Resource for Art Education

Education & Teaching

Kenneth, Marantz

Schools & Teaching

Natl Art Education Assn

Great Expectations has had a long, active and sometimes surprising life since its first serialized appearance in All the Year Round between 1 December 1860 and 3 August 1861. In this new publishing and reception history, Mary Hammond demonstrates that while Dickens’s thirteenth novel can tell us a great deal about the dynamic mid-Victorian moment into which it was born, its afterlife beyond the nineteenth-century Anglophone world reveals the full extent of its versatility. Re-assessing generations of Dickens scholarship and using newly discovered archival material, Hammond covers the formative history of Great Expectations' early years, analyses the extent and significance of its global reach, and explores the ways in which it has functioned as literature and stage, TV, film and radio drama from its first appearance to the latest film version of 2012. Appendices include contemporary reviews and comprehensive bibliographies of adaptations and translations. The book is a rich resource for scholars and students of Dickens; of comparative literature; and of publishing, readership, and media history.

Charles Dickens's Great Expectations (Ashgate Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital)

British & Irish

In this book, answers to the questions: Why am I here? Who am I to be with? What is my ideal career? How am I to take care of myself? Why was I born into my family? How am I to serve my community and the world? Clear the energy blocks to discovering your soul's purpose- why you are on this planet now! Following the guidelines for healing in this book you will quickly find yourself in the energy flow of spirit's guidance. Throughout Mary's work as a therapist with people with chronic emotional/mental or physical illness she noticed a trend. Those that got completely well and had little or no need to return for treatment were living passionately-particularly in the areas of relationship, career and service to the community. Thus, when they had completed their work on anxiety, depression, PTSD, or other chronic illnesses or issues, she asked them if they would be willing to continue to work a bit longer. on their soul's purpose. Complete wellness demands living your passion. In this groundbreaking book you will discover the process, Dynamic Energetic Healing®, an energy psychology model, with specific strategies to achieve your goals and dreams.

Living Your Soul's Purpose: Wellness and Passion with Energy Psychology

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Crowley, Ruth

Alternative Medicine

Global Healing Press

Mary Hammond examines the role of mercury in the life of Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and the creator of the mad Hatter. Many of us are aware that the phrase mad hatter's disease is another name for mercury poisoning, and we have wondered whether the mad Hatter suffered from mercury poisoning. The more important question, perhaps, is whether Lewis Carroll himself suffered from mercury poisoning. If you read this book, you may come to believe, as Hammond does, that Lewis Carroll’s mad Hatter was based on a man he knew intimately well, himself, and that while it is tremendously likely he suffered from mercury poisoning, his representation of himself as the Hatter had less to do with mercury than it had to do with madness and the fabric of time. Join Mary Hammond on a trip down the rabbit hole for an interesting and thought provoking look at the life of one of our most beloved historical figures.

The Mad Hatter: The Role of Mercury in the Life of Lewis Carroll

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Cooking mercury in your studio to make your own paints was not a good idea if you wanted to maintain your sanity, but it sometimes gave you that edge you needed to produce something really beautiful. Join Mary Hammond for a look at the historical use of mercury and its effect on artists. Of all of those overexposed to mercury during its heyday, artists were one of the groups most adversely affected. Not only were their reds prepared by cooking mercury and sulphur together (often right in their own studios), mercury was the go-to medicine which doctors used to combat lead poisoning, as well as many of the other afflictions to which artists were particularly susceptible because of their use of both mercury and lead in the creation of their colors. Visit my author page, linked below, for an eye opening short video on the subject. Mad Artist’s Disease is a book about artists and the art they have created, and as such, this physical version has been printed with color illustrations. The cost of production, and the cost of the book is correspondingly high. A digital version is available at a much lower price.

Mad Artists Disease: The Overlooked Influence of Mercury on the Lives of the Great Artists

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