This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the ...

Can a twelve-step program help Sadie kick her unrequited crush for good? Abby McDonald serves up her trademark wit and wisdom in a hilarious new novel. Seventeen-year-old Sadie is in love: epic, heartfelt, and utterly onesided.

Unlock your writing potential with Dorothea Brande's classic guide, "Becoming a Writer." This book provides aspiring writers with essential tools and techniques to develop their craft and cultivate a disciplined writing habit.

Drawing primarily from the field of composition studies—a discipline rich with a wide range of established pedagogies—the contributors in this volume build on previous models to present fresh and inventive methods for the teaching of ...

This volume is a fantastic resource for future and current instructors and scholars of composition, rhetoric, and writing studies.

This work reveals the history of 'ordinary' voices and reconstructs the literary culture of a democratic age.

Offering a new history of self-help’s origins, appeal, and cultural and literary import around the world, this book reveals that self-help’s most valuable secrets are not about getting rich or winning friends but about how and why ...

This book tells us about the hows and whys of such therapeutic change.

This essential reference book for researchers and students of the uncanny is written in an accessible style.

While the focus of this book is cultural, individual authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Edith Wharton are examined as representative of the phenomenon.