Focusing on the theme and experience of wonder in the travel writing of three major contemporary writers, this study offers a compelling counternarrative to the discourses on disenchantment often as
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The first literary folk tale in English, The King of the Golden River was written by John Ruskin for the young Effie Gray, who later became, with disastrous consequences, his wife. With the classic il
Though well-known as the author of Trilby and the creator of Svengali, the writer-artist George Du Maurier had many other accomplishments that are less familiar to modern audiences. This collection tr
The first chapter discusses illustration studies as a new academic discipline focused on the historical and cultural contexts of visual material associated with text. The field is a confluence of anal
In graphic novel format, follows the life of Martha Stewart from her younger years as a college student and new mother through early business ventures, the creation of Martha Stewart Living, and the i