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Printing Swift

Posted on December 2, 2013 by burnslibrary

While Jonathan Swift is well known for his novel Gulliver’s Travels, it was George Faulkner’s 1735 publication of The Works of Jonathan Swift that established Swift as a prominent literary figure. Faulkner’s edition was the first publication of all Swift’s … Continue reading →

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Face of a Nation: An Impartial History of the War in America

Posted on November 12, 2013 by burnslibrary

Throughout the 237 years of the United States of America’s existence, George Washington’s image has stood as a reminder of the ideals upon which this nation was founded. Washington’s multitude of portraits came to represent liberty, democracy, and freedom from … Continue reading →

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Cinderella: Big Tale, Little Misses

Posted on November 4, 2013 by burnslibrary

Transcending space and time, Charles Perrault’s Cinderella has withstood countless transformations to become the most widely recognized fairy tale of all time. Stemming from an original, albeit much more violent, telling of the story of Cinderella by Giambattista Basile of … Continue reading →

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Familiarizing the Foreign

Posted on October 28, 2013 by burnslibrary

Jean-Frédéric Bernard and Bernard Picart began publishing their cutting edge collaboration, The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Several Nations of the Known World, in the early 1720s, at the dawn of the Enlightenment. Over the course of the eighteenth … Continue reading →

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Redeeming the Black Lord Herbert

Posted on October 15, 2013 by burnslibrary

Edward Herbert of Cherbury wrote The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth between 1630 and 1645. Edward, a unique character in his own right, is the often forgotten older brother of the Welsh poet George Herbert. Edward Herbert’s … Continue reading →

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The Many Faces of Thomas Gage

Posted on September 16, 2013 by burnslibrary

In 1648, Thomas Gage published an account of his travels in the new world, the first of its kind to be written in English. In The English American, Gage writes of his travels through what are now the countries of … Continue reading →

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Medieval Mirror: The Connolly Book of Hours

Posted on April 22, 2013 by burnslibrary

The Connolly Book of Hours is an illuminated manuscript held by the John J. Burns Library.  This manuscript was created in mid-fifteenth century France, a time and place when Books of Hours were produced and bought in great numbers. The … Continue reading →

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