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    Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life

    Philip Davis (University of Liverpool),Philip Davis

    Philip Davis’s acclaimed full-scale biography of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of…

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    The Transferred Life of George Eliot

    Philip Davis (University of Liverpool)

    This new biography of George Eliot is not just the story of her life. It gives an account of what it means to become a novelist, and to think like…

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    Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life

    Philip Davis (University of Liverpool)

    Philip Davis presents the first full-scale biography of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story…

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    The Transferred Life of George Eliot

    Philip Davis (University of Liverpool)

    This new biography of George Eliot is not just the story of her life. It gives an account of what it means to become a novelist, and to think like…

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    Reading

    Philip Davis (University of Liverpool, UK),Fiona Magee (University of Liverpool, UK)

    Can reading literature really help our mental health? This book shows how and why,not by instruction or prescription, but by emotion and exploration. Offering case histories of individual readers and…

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    The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 8: 1830-1880: The Victorians

    Philip Davis (Reader in English Literature, University of Liverpool)

    Philip Davis demonstrates how the power of Victorian literature lies in its gift of asking questions with a personal insistence: about society and the individual, democracy and industrialism, the existence…

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    William James

    Philip Davis (Emeritus Professor of Literature and Psychology, University of Liverpool)

    This volume discusses the life and work of William James (1842-1910), a founder of the study of psychology. It concerns life-writing and writing for the sake of existence and combines…

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    Reading and the Reader: The Literary Agenda

    Philip Davis (Director of CRILS (Centre For Research In Reading, Information And Linguistic Systems), University of Liverpool)

    Reading and the Reader defends the value of reading serious literature, investigating the role of the reader in the human search for meaning outside as well as inside of books.

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    Reading for Life

    Philip Davis (Emeritus Professor of English Literature, formerly Director of CRILS (Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society), University of Liverpool)

    This volume presents original case-histories of readers to delve into just what reading is and how it works. Each chapter begins with a poem or excerpt which becomes the scene…

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    Does Religious Education Work?: A Multi-dimensional Investigation

    Professor James C. Conroy (University of Glasgow, UK),David Lundie (Liverpool Hope University, UK),Professor Robert A. Davis (University of Glasgow, UK),Professor Vivienne Baumfield (Professor in Professional Learning, University of Exeter, UK),Dr L. Philip Barnes (King's College London, UK)

    The most comprehensive empirical and conceptual analysis of the state of religious education in British schools currently available.

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    Does Religious Education Work?: A Multi-dimensional Investigation

    Professor James C. Conroy (University of Glasgow, UK),David Lundie (Liverpool Hope University, UK),Professor Robert A. Davis (University of Glasgow, UK),Professor Vivienne Baumfield (Professor in Professional Learning, University of Exeter, UK),Dr L. Philip Barnes (King's College London, UK)

    The most comprehensive empirical and conceptual analysis of the state of religious education in British schools currently available.

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