University Of Wales Press imprint: 340 books
Canadian Gothic
Literature, History, and the Spectre of Self-Invention
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
This book explores the Gothic tradition in Canadian literature by tracing a distinctive reworking of the British Gothic in Canada. It traces the ways the Gothic genre was reinvented for a specifically Canadian context. On the one hand, Canadian writers expressed anxiety about the applicability of...
The Gothic Ideology
Religious Hysteria and anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
The Gothic Ideology argues that in order to modernize and secularize, the British Protestant imaginary needed an ‘other’ against which it could define itself as a culture and a nation with distinct boundaries. The ‘Gothic ideology’ is identified as an intense religious anxiety, produced by...
Understanding Celtic Religion
Revisiting the Pagan Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Although it has long been acknowledged that the early Irish literary corpus preserves both pre-Christian and Christian elements, the challenges involved in the understanding of these different strata have not been subjected to critical examination. This volume draws attention to the importance of...
by Jarlath Killeen
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
This volume in this exciting new series provides a detailed yet accessible study of Gothic literature in the nineteenth century. It examines how themes and trends associated with the early Gothic novels were diffused widely in many different genres in the Victorian period, including the ghost story,...
Female Gothic Histories
Gender, Histories and the Gothic
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
Female Gothic Histories traces the development of women's Gothic historical fiction from Sophia Lee's The Recess in the late eighteenth century through the work of Elizabeth Gaskell, Vernon Lee, Daphne du Maurier and Victoria Holt to the bestselling novels of Sarah Waters in the twenty-first century....
Women's Writing and Muslim Societies
The Search for Dialogue, 1920-present
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Women’s Writing and Muslim Societies looks at the rise in works concerning Muslim societies by both western and Muslim women – from pioneering female travellers like Freya Stark and Edith Wharton in the early twentieth century, whose accounts of the Orient were usually playful and humorous, to...
The Arthur of the North
The Arthurian Legend in the Norse and Rus' Realms
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The Arthur of the North is the first book-length study of the Arthurian literature that was translated from French and Latin into Old Norse-Icelandic in the thirteenth century, which has been preserved mostly in Icelandic manuscripts, and which in early modern times inspired the composition of narrative...
by Yaw Agawu-Kakraba
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture attempts a concise approach to the question of postmodernity in Spain since the advent of democracy. The study presents Spain as one of the most postmodern of all European nations and argues that exclusive social and cultural experiences such as the movida,...
The Fantastic and European Gothic
History, Literature and the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This book examines the rise of Fantastic literature on the continent in the nineteenth century, the development of a European Gothic and the influence which this exerted on British writers. By examining writers like Nodier, Hoffmann, Gautier, Féval and Stevenson, the book argues firstly how their...
Nietzsche
On Theognis of Megara
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The topic chosen by Nietzsche for his Pforta dissertation was Theognis, his life in Megara, his lyrical production, and his views on the gods, morality and politics. Nietzsche saw Theognis as the intellectual champion of the defeated Megarian aristocracy, who sought to preserve the Dorian spirit and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 virgins was one of the most popular and relic-rich of all saints’ cults in the medieval period. This volume constitutes the first interdisciplinary collection of essays in English to explore the development and transmission of the legend of St Ursula in detail,...
by Joshua W Rayman
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
The sublime is the experience of what is great in power, size, or number. Historically, from ancient times to the present, this aesthetic experience has always been associated with morality, but in order to exclude evil, fascistic or terroristic uses of the sublime, we require a systematic justification...
by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
This book examines how Wilkie Collins’s interest in medical matters developed in his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s. Throughout his career, Collins made changes in the prototypical...
The Arthur of the Iberians
The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
This book fills the Iberian linguistic and geographical gap in Arthurian studies, replacing the now-outdated work by William J. Entwistle (1925). It covers Arthurian material in all the major Peninsular Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician); it follows the spread of Arthurian...