Gothic category: 300 books
by Katharine Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
First published in 1979, this book provides thorough a guide through Coleridge’s diverse body of work, looking not just his poetry but also his literary criticism and theories, plays, political journalism and theory, and writings on religion and philosophy. The author is careful to avoid emphasising...
Metaphysical Hazlitt
Bicentenary Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
The rediscovery and restitution of William Hazlitt as a canonical Romantic author has been among the latest and most significant developments in present-day Romantic studies. This volume, a collection of previously unpublished essays by the foremost scholars in the field presents Hazlitt as a philosophical,...
by Vivienne Brough-Evans
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Vivienne Brough-Evans proposes a compelling new way of reevaluating aspects of international surrealism by means of the category of divin fou, and consequently deploys theories of sacred ecstasy as developed by the Collège de Sociologie (1937–39) as a critical tool in shedding new light on the...
Margaret Atwood: Crime Fiction Writer
The Reworking of a Popular Genre
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Exploring how Margaret Atwood’s fiction reimagines the figure of the detective and the nature of crime, Jackie Shead shows how the author radically reworks the crime fiction genre. Shead focuses on Surfacing, Bodily Harm, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake and selected short fiction,...
The Postcolonial Intellectual
Ngugi wa Thiong’o in Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship, Oliver Lovesey examines the figure of the postcolonial intellectual as repeatedly evoked by the fabled troika of Said, Spivak, and Bhabha and by members of the pan-African diaspora such as Cabral, Fanon, and James. Lovesey’s primary focus...
The Fall of the House of Poe
And Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Why was Edgar Allan Poe unable to form either emotional or sexual bonds with the women in his life? Why did he worship at the grave of his friend's mother-a woman he may have loved but who he could have never been intimate with? Why did he marry his 13 year-old cousin and what impact did her tragic...
by Norman Page
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1972, Norman Page’s seminal study of The Language of Jane Austen seeks to demonstrate both the exceptional nature and the degree of subtlety of Jane Austen’s use of language.
As well as examining the staple items of her vocabulary and some of the characteristic patterns...
Island Genres, Genre Islands
Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
'Island Genres, Genre Islands' moves the debate about literature and place onto new ground by exploring the island settings of bestsellers. Through a focus on four key genres—crime fiction, thrillers, popular romance fiction, and fantasy fiction—Crane and Fletcher show that genre is fundamental...
by Marie Corelli
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
A British novelist. Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling, although critics often derided her work as "the favourite of the common multitude."
Includes an active table of contents...
Savage Economy
The Returns of Middle English Romance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
In Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance, Walter Wadiak traces the evolution of the medieval English romance from its thirteenth-century origins to 1500, and from a genre that affirmed aristocratic identity to one that appealed more broadly to an array of late medieval communities....
The Vocation of Evelyn Waugh
Faith and Art in the Post-War Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Arguing against the critical commonplace that Evelyn Waugh’s post-war fiction represents a decline in his powers as a writer, D. Marcel DeCoste offers detailed analyses of Waugh's major works from Brideshead Revisited to Unconditional Surrender. Rather than representing an ill-advised departure...
The Quest of the Absolute
Birth and Decline of European Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This eagerly awaited study brings to completion Louis Dupré's planned trilogy on European culture during the modern epoch. Demonstrating remarkable erudition and sweeping breadth, The Quest of the Absolute analyzes Romanticism as a unique cultural phenomenon and a spiritual revolution. Dupré philosophically...
Posting It
The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2009
Although "snail mail" may seem old fashioned and outdated in the twenty-first century, Catherine Golden argues that the creation of the Penny Post in Victorian England was just as revolutionary in its time as e-mail and text messages are today.
Until Queen Victoria instituted the...
Stephen King's Contemporary Classics
Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Many readers know Stephen King for his early works of horror, from his fiction debut Carrie to his blockbuster novels The Shining, The Stand, and Misery, among others. While he continues to be a best-selling author, King’s more recent fiction has not received the kind of critical attention that...