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Gothic Contemporaries: The Haunted Text by Joanne Watkiss 9780708324561
RRP: $41.98$31.98Gothic Contemporaries: The Haunted Text is the first of its kind to align selected 21st century fiction with a revised understanding of the gothic through themes such as signification, communication, ethics, inheritance and currency.Book InformationISBN... -
The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic by Paulina Palmer
RRP: $41.98$31.98The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic investigates the roles played by the concept of the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud and other theorists, in the representation of lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of... -
Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others by Michelle Smith
RRP: $147.00$118.80This collection is the first to focus exclusively on twenty-first-century young adult Gothic fiction. The essays demonstrate how the contemporary resurgence of the Gothic signals anxieties about (and hopes for) young people in the twenty-first century... -
Hebrew Gothic: History and the Poetics of Persecution by Karen Grumberg
RRP: $58.78$50.69Sinister 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... -
Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame by H. J. Jackson 9780300174793
$125.29A provocative inquiry into lasting literary fame, the gifted writers who have achieved it, and the gifted writers who have not Great writers of the past whose works we still read and love will be read forever. They will survive the test of time. We... -
In Darkest London: The Gothic Cityscape in Victorian Literature by Jamieson Ridenhour 9780810887770
RRP: $149.10$129.57During the 19th century, London was a complex, vibrant, and multi-faceted city, the first true metropolis. As such, it contained within it a widely disparate array of worlds and cultures. Representations of London in literature varied just as widely. In... -
The Gothic World Glennis Byron 9781138488274
RRP: $96.58$84.27The Gothic World offers an extensive overview of the popular field of the Gothic, from the eighteenth century through to the present day. Encompassing the literary, it also extends critical debate in exciting new directions, including film, politics,... -
Horror and Religion: New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race and Sexuality Eleanor Beal 9781786834409
RRP: $63.00$53.07Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in Horror fiction from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the various ways that horror and... -
Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels by Hsu-Ming Teo
RRP: $58.78$50.69The 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... -
"Wuthering Heights": Character Studies by Melissa Fegan 9780826493460
$50.63"Wuthering Heights" is studied by first-year undergraduates worldwide but students often find it difficult to approach the novel's characters in a sophisticated way; typically dwelling on the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine, but without... -
Middle Eastern Gothics: Literature, Spectral Modernities and the Restless Past by Karen Grumberg 9781786839282
RRP: $147.00$109.83Middle Eastern Gothics is the first scholarly volume on Gothic literature from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Its nine chapters consider literary expressions of the Gothic in the major Middle Eastern languages - Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and... -
Who'S in the Money?: The Great Depression Musicals and Hollywood s New Deal by Harvey G. Cohen
RRP: $50.38$45.89Explores the connections and tensions between Warner Bros. and the Roosevelt administration during 1933Harry and Jack Warner were among the most important advocates and fundraisers of President Franklin Roosevelt during his 1932 presidential campaign,... -
American Gothic Fiction by Allan Lloyd Smith 9780826415950
$69.85Following the structure of other titles in the Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres series, American Gothic Fiction includes: A broad definition of the genre and its essential elements. A timeline of developments within the genre. Critical concerns... -
Deburau: Pierrot, Mime, and Culture Edward Nye 9781032225647
RRP: $81.88$71.86This 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... -
Neoliberal Gothic: International Gothic in the Neoliberal Age by Linnie Blake 9781526139467
RRP: $52.50$37.63The explosion of interest in the gothic in recent years has coincided with a number of seismic political changes that have reshaped the world as we know it. Neoliberal Gothic explores that world, considering the ways in which the exponential increase in... -
Gothic Britain: Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles by William Hughes 9781786832337
RRP: $157.50$127.13Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is informed by, the British regional experience. Acknowledging how the so-called United Kingdom has historically been divided on nationalistic lines, the twelve... -
Globalgothic Glennis Byron 9781526106902
RRP: $41.98$32.00'The dead travel fast and, in our contemporary globalised world, so too does the gothic.' Examining how gothic has been globalised and globalisation made gothic, this collection of essays explores an emerging globalgothic that is simultaneously a... -
Wild Romanticism by Markus Poetzsch 9780367753511
RRP: $79.78$70.10Wild 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... -
The Gothic Vision: Three Centuries of Horror, Terror, and Fear by Dani Cavallaro 9780826478894
$67.79The Gothic Vision examines a broad range of tales of horror, terror, the uncanny and the supernatural, spanning the late eighteenth century to the present, and of related theoretical approaches to the realm of dark writing. Dani Cavallaro argues that... -
The Dark-hunter Companion by Sherrilyn Kenyon 9780312363437
RRP: $52.48$37.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312363437Author Sherrilyn KenyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press -
Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9781531503420
RRP: $50.38$43.76LONGLISTED, THE ALLAN LLOYD SMITH PRIZE FOR BEST MONOGRAPH Offering an innovative approach to the Gothic, Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety breaks ground with a new materialist analysis of the genre, highlighting the ways that,... -
Videogames and the Gothic by Ewan Kirkland 9781032073989
RRP: $81.88$74.72This 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... -
Patrick McGrath Sue Zlosnik 9780708323748
RRP: $20.98$15.92Patrick McGrath is one of Britain's foremost contemporary novelists but very little has been written about his work to date. This new book offers readings of McGrath's fiction informed by recent scholarship and evaluates his creative contribution to the... -
A Critical Reader of the Romantic Grand Tour: Tristes Plaisirs by Chloe Chard 9780719044991
RRP: $63.00$44.75Chloe Chard assembles fascinating passages from late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century accounts of travel in Italy, by Northern Europeans, writing in English (or, in some cases, translated into English at the time); 'Tristes Plaisirs'... -
Fables and Other Lies by Claire Contreras 9780998345680
$25.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998345680Author Claire ContrerasFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Claire ContrerasPublisher Claire ContrerasWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Horror from The Castle of Otranto to Alien by Valadine Clemens 9780791443286
$54.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791443286Author Valadine ClemensFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Gothic Readings: The First Wave, 1764-1840 by Rictor Norton 9780718502171
$168.08Gothic Readings: The First Wave, 1764-1840 is an anthology of Gothic literature, set within the context of contemporary criticism and readers' responses. It includes selections from the major practitioners - indcluding Horace Walpole, William Beckford,... -
Posthuman Gothic by Anya Heise-Von Der Lippe 9781786831064
RRP: $178.50$145.49Posthuman Gothic is an edited collection of thirteen chapters, and offers a structured, dialogical contribution to the discussion of the posthuman Gothic. Contributors explore the various ways in which posthuman thought intersects with Gothic textuality... -
Victorian Literary Culture and Ancient Egypt by Eleanor Dobson 9781526141880
RRP: $178.50$126.36This edited collection considers representations of ancient Egypt in the literature of the nineteenth-century. It addresses themes such as reanimated mummies, ancient Egyptian mythology and contemporary consumer culture across literary modes ranging from... -
The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories by Susan Ostrov Weisser 9780813561776
RRP: $67.20$43.93Why is the story of romance in books, magazines, and films still aimed at women rather than at men? Even after decades of feminism, traditional ideas and messages about romantic love still hold sway and, in our "postfeminist" age, are more... -
Gothic and Modernism: Essaying Dark Literary Modernity by John Paul Riquelme 9780801888656
$53.47Gothic and Modernism establishes and interprets the significant presence and the transformations of the Gothic tradition at the dark heart of writing during the long twentieth century. Artfully introduced and collected by John Paul Riquelme, the... -
Double Trouble: The Doppelganger from Romanticism to Postmodernism by Eran Dorfman
RRP: $83.98$73.63The double, doppelganger, is mostly understood as a peculiar figure that emerged in nineteenth-century Romantic and gothic literature. Far from being a merely esoteric entity, however, this book argues that the double, although it mostly goes unnoticed,... -
The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism by Paul Hamilton 9780199696383
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The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol by Nicholas Halmi 9780199212415
RRP: $267.75$230.60Despite its widely acknowledged importance in and beyond the thought of the Romantic period, the distinctive concept of the symbol articulated by such writers as Goethe and F. W. J. Schelling in Germany and S. T. Coleridge in England has defied adequate... -
Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel by Stefan Tilg 9780199576944
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Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic by Eugenia C. DeLamotte 9780195056938
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Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820 by Diane Hoeveler 9780814252376
$57.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252376Author Diane HoevelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 458g -
Coleridge, Language, and Criticism by Timothy Corrigan 9780820332406
$60.33Long celebrated as a great aesthetic idealist and champion of the imagination, Coleridge is now beginning to be understood as a literary critic with many other dimensions, with exciting and far-reaching insights into language, and with detailed notions... -
Men with Stakes: Masculinity and the Gothic in Us Television by Julia Wright 9780719097706
RRP: $178.50$156.47Men with stakes builds on recent discussions of television Gothic by examining the ways in which the Gothic mode is deployed specifically to call into question televisual realism and, with it, conventional depictions of masculinity. Released from the... -
Sinister Histories: Gothic Novels and Representations of the Past, from Horace Walpole to Mary Wollstonecraft by Jonathan Dent 9780719095979
RRP: $178.50$157.31Sinister histories is the first book to offer a detailed exploration of the Gothic's response to Enlightenment historiography. It uncovers hitherto-neglected relationships between fiction and prominent works of eighteenth-century history, locating the...