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Arthurian Literature XVIIIby Keith Busby
Boydell & Brewer 2001; US$ 85.00This volume of Arthurian Literature continues the tradition of the journal, combining critical studies with editions of primary Arthurian texts. Varied in their linguistic and chronological coverage, the articles deal with major areas of Arthurian studies, from early French romance through late medieval English chronicle to contemporary fiction. Topics include Béroul's Tristan, Tristan de Nanteuil, the Anglo-Norman Brut, and the Morte, while an edition of the text of an extrait of Chrétien's Erec et Enide prepared by the eighteenth-century scholar La Curne de Sainte-Palaye offers important insights into both scholarship on Chrétien, and our understanding of the Enlightenment. more...
British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824by Prof Toni Wein
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 140.00British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824 considers three interlocking developments of this period: the emergence of the Gothic novel at a time when national upheavals required the construction of a new nationalist identity, the Gothic novel's redefinition of heroes and heroism in that nationalist debate, and changes within class and gender as well as audience and author relations. The scope of this study extends beyond the confines of the novel proper to include chapbooks and illustrated redactions. more...
Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterityby Andrew Bennett; Marilyn Butler; James Chandler
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 40.00This book offers a new theory of reception governing Romantic poetry, through its culture of posterity - a tradition of writing which demands that the poet should write for an audience of the future: the true poet, a figure of neglected genius, can only be properly appreciated after death. more...
Gothicby Fred Botting
Routledge 1995; US$ 22.95Botting expertly introduces the transformations of the gothic through history, discussing key figures such as ghosts, monsters and vampires, as well as tracing its origins, characteristics, cultural significance and critical interpretations. more...
Romanticism and Warby J.R. Watson
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 130.00This volume is a study of war and the perceptions of war. It deals specifically with the British Romantic period writers who lived through the Napoleonic wars, and the way in which those wars affected the writing of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron and many of their contemporaries. more...
Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Cultureby Patrick R. O'Malley
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 98.00Gothic forms were used to represent Catholicism and sexual difference as alien to British culture, from the origins of the Gothic novel to Stoker's Dracula and Hardy's Jude the Obscure. The Victorian Gothic developed as a genre through which British authors defined their culture and what was outside it. more...
The Routledge Companion to Gothicby Catherine Spooner; Emma McEvoy
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 30.95In a wide-ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this book is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date guides on the diverse and murky world of the gothic in literature, film and culture. more...
Writing the Empireby Carol Bolton
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2007; US$ 99.00Bolton examines a broad range of Robert Southey?s writing to explore the relationship between Romantic literature and colonial politics during the expansion of Britain?s second empire. more...
The Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Periodby Edward Larissy
Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 99.50In the first full-length literary-historical study of its subject, Edward Larrissy examines the philosophical and literary background to representations of blindness and the blind in the Romantic period. In detailed studies of literary works he goes on to show how the topic is central to an understanding of British and Irish Romantic literature. While he considers the influence of Milton and the Ossian poems, as well as of philosophers, including Locke, Diderot, Berkeley and Thomas Reid, much of the book is taken up with new readings of writers of the period. These include canonical authors such as Blake, Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Keats and Percy and Mary Shelley, as well as less well-known writers such as Charlotte Brooke and Ann... more...
Coleridge and the Crisis of Reasonby R. Berkeley
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2007; US$ 90.00This exciting new study examines Coleridge's understanding of the Pantheism Controversy - the crisis of reason in German philosophy - revealing the context informing Coleridge's understanding of German thinkers. It establishes the central importance of the contested status of reason for Coleridge's poetry and later religious thought. more...