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The Victorian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion by Andrew Smith
RRP: £23.99£19.51This book offers an invaluable insight into the complex and various Gothic forms of the 19th century. The Edinburgh Companion to the Victorian Gothic is an essential resource for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and... -
The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction by Nick Groom
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home decor and... -
Gin Austen: 50 Cocktails to Celebrate the Novels of Jane Austen by Colleen Mullaney 9781454933120
RRP: £14.99£10.85It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in possession of this good book must be in want of a drink.Winner of the Gourmand Award in the Gin category (US). In six enduring novels, Jane Austen captured the fancies and foibles of Regency... -
The Gothic and Catholicism: Religion, Cultural Exchange and the Popular Novel, 1785-1829 by Maria Purves 9780708320914
RRP: £24.99£20.29This book constitutes the first sustained analysis that comprehensively proves that revision is required of the critical commonplace idea in Gothic scholarship that the roots of the Gothic novel should be seen within a late eighteenth century popular... -
Danse Macabre by Stephen King
RRP: £10.99£7.78Before he gave us the classic title On Writing, ('part biography, part collection of tips for the aspiring writer' - Guardian) Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, 'One of the best books on American popular culture'... -
History of the Gothic: Twentieth-Century Gothic by Lucie Armitt 9780708320433
RRP: £19.99£15.23Why, at a time when the majority of us no longer believe in ghosts, demons or the occult, does Gothic continue to have such a strong grasp upon literature, cinema and popular culture? This book answers the question by exploring some of the ways in which... -
Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies by Dewey W. Hall 9781498518031
RRP: £44.00£40.35Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and... -
Thomas De Quincey: Selected Writings by Robert Morrison 9780192868046
RRP: £21.99£20.59This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). The edition presents De Quincey's work in all of its rich variety, and offers the most thorough... -
Starry Speculative Corpse by Eugene Thacker 9781782798910
RRP: £10.99£9.37Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these... -
Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic by Elisabeth Bronfen
RRP: £25.00£18.32In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating... -
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery
RRP: £9.99£6.64The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. 'A genius book about a bookish genius' Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events ... -
Shakespearean Gothic by Christy Desmet 9780708320921
RRP: £9.99£7.58This collection of essays explores the thesis that Shakespeare as we know him today was born in the eighteenth century, at the same time as the Gothic tradition, first named by Horace Walpole in 1764. The two are inextricable. Writers interested in... -
Swedish Gothic: Dark Forces, Creatures and the Wilderness by Yvonne Leffler 9781839980336
RRP: £20.99£19.72The book explores the Gothic tradition in Swedish literature. It aims to give an overview of the development of Swedish Gothic from the Romantic age until today and to highlight the characteristic features of the Swedish tradition of Gothic in relation... -
Contemporary Gothic by Catherine Spooner
RRP: £12.95£9.07Gothic images pervade contemporary culture, from popular interior decorating programmes to news stories of vampire-obsessed killers. Darkness and unease have never been more fashionable, as the media repeatedly proclaims that Gothic is back', heralding... -
Frankenstein and Its Classics: The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction by Jesse Weiner
£29.59Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired by it draw on ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, philosophy, and myth. Presenting twelve new essays intended for students,... -
Welsh Gothic by Jane Aaron 9780708326084
RRP: £25.00£18.81Welsh Gothic, the first study of its kind, introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day. Informed by postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, it argues that many of the fears encoded in Welsh Gothic... -
Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution by Karen Grumberg
RRP: £29.99£25.99Sinister tales written since the early 20th century by the foremost Hebrew authors, including S. Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz, reveal a darkness at the foundation of Hebrew culture. The ghosts of a murdered Talmud scholar and his kidnapped bride... -
The Woman In The Mirror: A haunting gothic story of obsession, tinged with suspense by Rebecca James
RRP: £12.99£10.19'A dark treat' Kate Riordan, author of The Stranger Haunting and moving, The Woman in the Mirror is a tale of obsession tinged with suspense, perfect for fans of Tracy Rees and Lulu Taylor. ... -
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Josie Billington
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776571Author Josie BillingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Tentacles Longer Than Night by Eugene Thacker 9781782798897
RRP: £10.99£9.37Our contemporary horror stories are written in a world where there seems little faith, lost hope, and no salvation. All that remains is the fragmentary and occasionally lyrical testimony of the human being struggling to confront its lack of reason for... -
Deburau: Pierrot, Mime, and Culture by Edward Nye 9781032225647
RRP: £38.99£34.22This volume analyses the nature of the mime art of Deburau and of the pantomime performances of the Theatre des Funambules in Paris in the context of Romantic art, literature and socio-political thought. Deburau and the Theatre des Funambules are... -
Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels by Hsu-Ming Teo
RRP: £29.99£25.99The Sheik-E. M. Hull's best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino-kindled "sheik fever" across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically "Oriental" swept through fashion, film, and... -
The Routledge Companion to Gothic by Catherine Spooner
RRP: £28.99£25.09In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential guide explores the world of Gothic in all its myriad forms throughout the mid-eighteenth Century to the internet age. The Routledge... -
Gothic Metaphysics: From Alchemy to the Anthropocene by Jodey Castricano
RRP: £70.00£56.57Gothic Metaphysics is a radical departure from Freudian-centred criticism of Gothic literature. It aims to explore our modern dilemma in the time of the Anthropocene, by bringing to light the role of Gothic since its inception in 1764 in holding space... -
The History of Gothic Fiction by Markman Ellis
RRP: £31.00£28.15The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Approaching key... -
Gothic Kinship by Agnes Andeweg
RRP: £19.99£17.61Although the preoccupation of Gothic storytelling with the family has often been observed, it invites a more systematic exploration. Gothic kinship brings together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offers a synthesis and... -
Gothic Literature by Andrew Smith 9780748647415
RRP: £19.99£17.76This is the new edition of bestselling introductory text outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literature. This revised edition includes a new chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twentieth century and looks at... -
Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James by Patrick J. Murphy
RRP: £28.95£26.49Montague Rhodes James authored some of the most highly regarded ghost stories of all time-classics such as "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" that have been adapted many times over for radio and television and have never gone out of print. But... -
Rough Beasts: The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800–2000 by Jack Fennell
RRP: £27.99£24.95Monsters and other supernatural malefactors disrupt the human world in distinct ways: werewolves and cunning beasts challenge the philosophical distinction between human and animal; demons offer deceptive pacts to prey upon our delusions of mastery over... -
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance by Jayne Ann Krentz
RRP: £21.99£18.79In Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, Jayne Ann Krentz and the contributors to this volume-all best-selling romance writers-explode myths and biases that haunt both the writers and readers of romances. In this seamless, ultimately fascinating, and... -
Carmilla: A Critical Edition by Joseph Le Fanu Sheridan 9780815633112
RRP: £16.95£14.78This title situates Carmilla within its Irish Cultural milieu and treats the text as self-standing rather than as a precursor to Dracula. Unlike other collections of Gothic literature, Costello-Sullivan's work focuses solely on Carmilla.Book... -
G.W.M. Reynolds Reimagined: Studies in Authorship, Radicalism, and Genre, 1830-1870 by Jennifer Conary 9781032416380
RRP: £35.99£32.09This essay collection proposes that G.W.M. Reynolds's contribution to Victorian print culture reveals the interrelations between authorship, genre, and radicalism in popular print culture of the nineteenth century. As a best-selling author of popular... -
Gothic Film: An Edinburgh Companion by Richard J Hand
RRP: £20.99£18.58This anthology explores the resilience and ubiquity of the Gothic in cinema from its earliest days to its most contemporary iterations. Fifteen newly commissioned chapters by prominent scholars in the field of Gothic and cinema studies examine the myriad... -
Wild Romanticism by Markus Poetzsch 9780367753511
RRP: £37.99£33.38Wild Romanticism consolidates contemporary thinking about conceptions of the wild in British and European Romanticism, clarifying the emergence of wilderness as a cultural, symbolic, and ecological idea. This volume brings together the work of twelve... -
Poems and Prose by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
RRP: £14.99£10.95Coleridge is the most complex and brilliant, yet the most elusive and intense of the great Romantic writers. This selection of verse and prose displays the extraordinary scope of his mind, the power of his imagination and the virtuosity of his literary... -
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Mysterious Death of the 'Female Byron' by Lucasta Miller
RRP: £11.99£7.72A famous poet, a mysterious death and a story stranger than fiction. - this is the lost life and mytserious death of the 'Female Byron' On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of... -
Videogames and the Gothic by Ewan Kirkland 9781032073989
RRP: £38.99£35.58This book will be a key contribution to both Gothic and digital game scholarship as it argues for close proximity between Gothic culture and the videogame medium itselfThis book explores the many ways Gothic literature and media have informed videogame... -
Gothic Writing 1750-1820: A Genealogy by Robert Miles 9780719060090
RRP: £25.00£21.58Now available again in paperback, this provocative study by Robert Miles uses the tools of modern literary theory and criticism to analyse this very distinctive body of texts. Miles introduces the reader to contexts of Gothic in the eigteenth century... -
Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb by Eric G. Wilson
RRP: £25.00£21.32An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work "[An] electrifying portrait of Charles Lamb."-New Yorker A pioneer of urban Romanticism, essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834) found inspiration in London's... -
History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914 by Jarlath Killeen 9780708320693
RRP: £12.99£9.70History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914 is a detailed and accessible study of Gothic literature in the nineteenth century. It examines how the themes and tropes associated with the early Gothic novel were diffused widely in many different...