Gothic & Romance

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...

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...

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,...

Black Neo-Victoriana is the first book-length study on contemporary re-imaginations of Blackness in the long nineteenth century. Located at the intersections of postcolonial studies, Black studies, and neo-Victorian criticism, this interdisciplinary...

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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

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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...

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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

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In this book, Michael Gardiner suggests that the conception of the 'war-ending' weapon was tied up with a longer commitment to unified space and singular progress. The mission for total weapons can be seen rising with the highly-technical defensive war...

An entirely original look at the evolution of a cultural phenomenon. As John Edgar Browning puts it in his Foreword, "Vampires are pure culture, and culture needs 'diggers' like Kevin Dodd.About the AuthorKevin Dodd received his PhD in religion from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959888567Author Carmen RosalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Carmen RosalesPublisher Carmen RosalesWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949664102Author Erin ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Erin ThorntonPublisher Erin ThorntonWeight(grams) 395g

This volume offers an important examination of the ways in which artistic manipulations of time can lead to a different perception of time as nonsynchronous and anti-chronological. The range of media (philosophical essays, film, plays, novels,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590210017Author Dorothy ScarboroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Lethe PressPublisher Lethe PressWeight(grams) 500g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925770322Author Rachel HylandFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Overlord PublishingPublisher Overlord PublishingWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 254mm...

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This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance. The texts covered encompass poetry, epic narratives, ghost stories, prose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391316372Author Thomas HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint Sanage PublishingPublisher Sanage PublishingWeight(grams) 612g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781618956705Author Ann Ward RadcliffeFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648894541Author Maria Isabel Gonzalez-CruzFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

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