Gothic & Romance

This 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...

The 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,...

This 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...

Why 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 popular than...

Romantic 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...

A comprehensive study of the influence Spenser had on the forms, images, and style of the principal Romantic poets, this volume explores how Spenserianism pervades not just their writings but also the subconscious thinking and spirit of the Romantic era...

While much recent ecocriticism has questioned the value of nature as a concept, Thought's Wilderness insists that it is analytically and politically indispensable, and that romanticism shows us why. Without a concept of nature, Greg Ellermann argues, our...

Is it really a man's world? At a time when masculinity is being challenged, this book explores the links between reading and writing and how they have historically been associated with masculine privilege. This book focuses on the representation of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789359958651Author Henry Savage RichardFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Double 9 Books LLPPublisher Double 9 Books LLP

Investigates the ways in which new technologies and theories of photography, phonography, moving images, and digital media engage with a diverse set of texts by British Romantic writers.Finalist in the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the...

This book illustrates how contemporary Gothic literature can be read through a metamodern lens, and investigates the concept of multiplicity of truths and the way identity is represented in the twenty-first century. Citing traditional motifs found in the...

The nineteenth-century American artist Washington Allston bridges the worlds of art and literature in his novel Monaldi: A Tale (1841). Full of Gothic intrigue and suspense, Allston's novel tells the story of a renowned and idealistic Italian artist...

Are ghosts, vampires, and other forms of "haunted presence" related to universal religious instincts? Are emotions that play a part in religious ritual and narrative similar to those in classical works of Gothic fiction such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The...

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Exploring the psychological and political implications of Gothic fiction, Valdine Clemens focuses on some major works in the tradition: The Castle of Otranto, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, The Shining, and Alien. She applies both...

Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric delves into the intricate and dynamic world of medieval troubadour poetry, examining its artistic evolution and cultural context. This groundbreaking work challenges traditional romanticized interpretations of...

Memory and Re-Creation in Troubadour Lyric delves into the intricate and dynamic world of medieval troubadour poetry, examining its artistic evolution and cultural context. This groundbreaking work challenges traditional romanticized interpretations of...

Cervantes's Don Quixote confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers: Does the text pursue a serious or comic purpose? Does it promote the truth of history and the untruth of fiction, or the...

The New England Milton concentrates on the poet's place in the writings of the Unitarians and the Transcendentalists, especially Emerson, Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Jones Very, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker, and demonstrates that his...

This work offers a new perspective on Gothic fiction and reassesses its place in literary history. After defining his concept of "affective form" and summarizing the problematic assumptions behind recent critical approaches to the Gothic, George Haggerty...

Exploring how the concept of the imagination is figured in some principal texts of English Romanticism, this book convincingly argues that this figuring is a deeply ideological activity which reveals important social and political investments. By...

From the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today’s green burialsWhy, how, and where do we inter our dead? How have people throughout history responded to the...

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Since the 1874 publication in Belgium of the first posthumous edition of Les Chants de Maldoror, the enigmatic work has served as an inspiration for the poetic and creative liberation of countless twentieth-century writers and artists. Little is known,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996240093Author Tyler R TichelaarFormat HardbackPage Count 542Imprint Marquette FictionPublisher Marquette FictionWeight(grams) 889gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996240086Author Tyler R TichelaarFormat PaperbackPage Count 542Imprint Marquette FictionPublisher Marquette FictionWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879727789Author KalerFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint The Popular PressPublisher The Popular PressWeight(grams) 353gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487579111Author W J B OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 327g

This book presents a close reading of four texts by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, guided by Gilles Deleuze's concept of metamorphosis, "becoming-animal". In his critique of anthropocentrism and Western reason, Le Clezio dismantles the opposition between...

In the age of the refugee, this volume sheds new light on the work of canonical and less-studied figures of the Spanish exile of 1939, which ranges from first to second generation exiles, from Galicia to Andalusia, from philosophers to poets,...

«Deeply versed in recent theoretical discussions of the lyric form in general and the elegy in particular, Adele Bardazzi also brings to bear queer thinking on temporality and philosophical treatments of mourning to shift the understanding of Montale’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789975413Author Peter J. MauritsFormat PaperbackImprint Peter Lang International Academic PublishersPublisher Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787078949Author Jose OrnelasFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Peter Lang LtdPublisher Peter Lang LtdWeight(grams) 152g

This collection of essays brings together an international team of scholars with the aim to shed new light on various interconnected aspects of the Gothic through the lens of converging critical and methodological approaches. With its wide-ranging...

What happens when we redirect our lines of reading along new lines, borders, and orientations-those that fail to fit neatly into the cardinal directions of North, South, East, and West? What is, who stands for, and where exactly is the "Orient" in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390896707Author Fyodor DostoyevskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 642Imprint Sanage Publishing HousePublisher Sanage Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 803g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358016703Author R. D. BlackmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 547Imprint Double 9 Books LLPPublisher Double 9 Books LLPWeight(grams) 821g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782225782Author Ian YearsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Paragon PublishingPublisher Paragon PublishingWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789364281171Author Ann S StephensFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Double 9 Books LLPPublisher Double 9 Books LLPWeight(grams) 431g