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Gothic death 1740-1914 explores the representations of death and dying in Gothic narratives published between the mid-eighteenth century and the beginning of the First World War. It investigates how eighteenth century Graveyard Poetry and the tradition...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540450685Author MR Aldo Di GiovanniFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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Since the publication of John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even...

Sensibility, or the capacity to feel, played a vital role in philosophical reflection about the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts in eighteenth-century France. Yet scholars have privileged the Marquis de Sade's vindication of...

This book traces the life of Giacomo Leopardi by examining four different yet interrelated aspects: his social origins and class in relation to his evolving conception of nobility; the mixture of idealism and misogynism in his attitude toward women and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474488013Author Julia WurrFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

What does heredity mean for identity? What role does the individual have in shaping a personal or a human history? What is the ethical status of seemingly biologically determined behaviours? What does individual death mean in the light of species...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839542565Author Lucy O'MearaFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478154655Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498123587Author United StatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 628Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 1070g

Since the publication of John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628970142Author Warren F. Motte, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Dalkey Archive PressPublisher Dalkey Archive PressWeight(grams) 426g

Kevin De Ornellas argues that in Renaissance England the relationship between horse and rider works as an unambiguous symbol of domination by the strong over the weak. There was little sentimental concern for animal welfare, leading to the routine abuse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548574925Author Robert Michael BallantyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, who gradually transformed himself into the English writer, Joseph Conrad, was a mercurial personality. He left Poland for the sea, though he had no experience with salt water. He left the Polish language for French, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534811317Author William O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

This book deals with historical consciousness and its artistic expressions in contemporary Greece since 1989 from the point of view that contemporary Greeks have been faced with the contradictions between on the one hand a glorious, world-famous yet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498022989Author Giovanni VergaFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450557313Author IV Robert WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint CreatespacePublisher CreatespaceWeight(grams) 191g

Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, who gradually transformed himself into the English writer, Joseph Conrad, was a mercurial personality. He left Poland for the sea, though he had no experience with salt water. He left the Polish language for French, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250907943Author Michael HofmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This comprehensive study of Beckett's art proposes a doubly contextualized reading of his later works: Carla Locatelli reads late Beckett through his previous writings, and relates them to the literary, philosophical, and critical community which...

Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. But the modern version one hears or sees from Madrid to Montevideo, or from Sevila to San Salvador has evolved out of Old Spanish, the colloquial form of Latin spoken on the Iberian...

However shared the Roman inheritance may be, it hardly unifies. Which Rome is the model, the Republic or the Empire? The Rome of imperial conquest or of civil war? By whom is it ruled? By the glorious conqueror who extended universal peace, the rule of...

The Victorian illustrated book came into being, flourished, and evolved during the nineteenth century. Catherine Golden offers a new framework for viewing the arc of this vibrant form and surveys the fluidity in styles of illustration in serial...

Featuring two first-person interviews with the major contemporary French man of letters, this work investigates the relationships between Alain Robbe-Grillet's experimental writing (novels, picto-novels, auto-fictions, films, and essays) and developments...

Revels in Madness provides a history of Western culture''s shifting understandings of insanity as evidenced in its literature and as influenced by medical knowledge at any given time.'Book InformationISBN 9780472110353Author Allen ThiherFormat...

Arthur Kinney has made so many contributions to the study of English literature, in so many different roles, that it can be difficult to reckon with the true sum of his achievement. . . . His curiosity encompasses an entire world and all the things in...

In The Art of Distances, Corina Stan identifies an insistent preoccupation with interpersonal distance in a strand of twentieth-century European and Anglophone literature that includes the work of George Orwell, Paul Morand, Elias Canetti, Iris Murdoch,...

'Culture and Consciousness' argues that the vast interdisciplinary boom in consciousness research has enormous implications for literary and cultural studies, and that the potential benefits of this research in the twenty-first century are momentous...

"Provides an extremely valuable introduction to the work of Michel Serres for an English-speaking audience, as well as offering useful critical approaches for those already familiar with its outlines." ---Robert Harrison, Stanford University...

The material properties of late medieval manuscripts testify to the power of visual images to shape both the reading experience and the reader. Desmond and Sheingorn's innovative study draws extensively on film theory and its notions of spectatorship to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110695748Author Folke GernertFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780231088268Author H.N. FairchildFormat HardbackPage Count 535Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press