Gothic category: 300 books
Shelley's Music
Fantasy, Authority and the Object Voice
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
First published in 2009. This book argues that the images of and allusions to music in Shelley’s writing demonstrate his attempt to infuse the traditionally masculine word with the traditionally feminine voice and music. This further extends to his even more fundamental desire to integrate the "object...
by Julie Nash
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Writing during periods of dramatic social change, Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell were both attracted to the idea of radical societal transformation at the same time that their writings express nostalgia for a traditional, paternalistic ruling class. The author shows how this tension is played...
Inquiring Spirit
A New Presentation of Coleridge from His Published and Unpublished Prose Writings (Revised Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
When this work was first prepared for publication in 1949 the Notebooks and Collected Letters were still in manuscript, and many of the printed works, if not unavailable, were scarce. The continuing publication of Coleridge's works has not lessened the demand for a general introduction to Coleridge's...
Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient
Cultural Negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
While postcolonial studies of Romantic-period literature have flourished in recent years, scholars have long neglected the extent of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's engagement with the Orient in both his literary and philsophical writings. Bringing together leading international writers, Coleridge, Romanticism...
Wuthering Heights
Character Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
Readers and critics have been intrigued - and disturbed - by the characters of Wuthering Heights since its publication in 1847. Heathcliff and Catherine, the tormented and enigmatic lovers at the centre of the novel, have justifiably been the focus of critical attention. Yet the novel is peopled with...
Experience into Thought
Perspectives in the Coleridge Notebooks
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
Coleridge is admired as a genius and derided as an opium addict and plagiarist. The aim here has been to examine his experiences, moods, thoughts, and reactions as a whole and their relation to poems such as Christabel, the Ancient Mariner, and the Dejection ode, and to his prose works, and also to...
by James L Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1965
This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.
Satirizing Modernism
Aesthetic Autonomy, Romanticism, and the Avant-Garde
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Satirizing Modernism examines 20th-century novels that satirize avant-garde artists and authors while also using experimental techniques associated with literary modernism. These novels-such as Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God, William Gaddis's The Recognitions, and Gilbert Sorrentino's Imaginative...
Keats and Philosophy
The Life of Sensations
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
John Keats remains one of the most familiar and beloved of English poets, but has received surprisingly little critical attention in recent years. This study is a fresh contribution to Keats criticism and Romantic scholarship, positioning Keats as a figure of philosophical interest who warrants renewed...
by Stella Pratt-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Throughout the nineteenth century, practitioners of science, writers of fiction and journalists wrote about electricity in ways that defied epistemological and disciplinary boundaries. Revealing electricity as a site for intense and imaginative Victorian speculation, Stella Pratt-Smith traces the...
by R. L. Brett
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
First published in 1969, this book provides a concise and helpful introduction to the terms ‘fancy’ and ‘imagination’. Although they are generally associated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the work begins with a discussion the history of these concepts which were also known to Aristotle, the...
The Utopian Human Right to Science and Culture
Toward the Philosophy of Excendence in the Postmodern Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This book explores the question of whether the ideal right to science and culture exists. It proposes that the human right to science and culture is of a utopian character and argues for the necessity of the existence of such a right by developing a philosophical project situated in postmodernity,...
Outsiders
The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Giants are a ubiquitous feature of medieval romance. As remnants of a British prehistory prior to the civilization established, according to the Historium regum Britannie, by Brutus and his Trojan followers, giants are permanently at odds with the chivalric culture of the romance world. Whether they...
by Onno Oerlemans
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Given current environmental concerns, it is not surprising to find literary critics and theorists surveying the Romantic poets with ecological hindsight. In this timely study, Onno Oerlemans extends these current eco-critical views by synthesizing a range of viewpoints from the Romantic period. He...