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  • Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Eraby Lara Baker Whelan

    Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 133.00

    This book demonstrates how representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre unique to this period, one that attempted to reassure readers that the suburb was a place where outsiders could be controlled and where middle-class values could be enforced. Whelan explores the dissonance... more...

  • Shakespearean Gothicby Christy Desmet; Anne Williams

    University of Wales Press 2009; US$ 85.00

    This book explores the paradox that the Gothic (today’s werewolves, vampires, and horror movies) owe their origins (and their legitimacy) to eighteenth-century interpretations of Shakespeare. As Shakespeare was being established as the supreme British writer throughout the century, he was cited as justification for early Gothic writers’ fascination... more...

  • Romantic Women Poetsby Lilla Maria Crisafulli; Cecilia Pietropoli

    Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 78.40

    Romantic Women Poets: Genre and Gender focuses on the part played by women poets in the creation of the literary canon in the Romantic period in Britain. Its thirteen essays enrich our panoramic view of an age that is traditionally dominated by male authors such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats and Scott. Instead the volume concentrates... more...

  • Gothic Realitiesby L. Andrew Cooper

    McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 35.00

    Eighteenth-century critics believed Gothic fiction would inspire deviant sexuality, instill heretical beliefs, and encourage antisocial violence--this book puts these beliefs to the test. After examining the assumptions behind critics' fears, it considers nineteenth-century concerns about sexual deviance, showing how Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and... more...

  • Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fictionby Rosario Arias; Dr Patricia Pulham

    Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 90.00

    Exploring the pervasive presence of the Victorian past in contemporary culture, these essays use the trope of haunting and spectrality as a critical tool with which to consider neo-Victorian works, as well as our ongoing fascination with the Victorians, combining original readings of well-known novels with engaging analyses of lesser-known works. more...

  • Novel and Romance 1700-1800 (Routledge Revivals)by Ioan Williams

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 42.95

    The documents collected in this volume, first published in 1970, trace the development of novel criticism during one of the most formative periods in the history of fiction: from 1700-1800. The material includes prefaces to collections, translations and original novels; essays written for journals modelled on the Spectator ; passages taken from miscellanies... more...

  • Bram Stoker's Draculaby William Hughes

    Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 90.00

    Dracula (1897) is one of the most commonly studied gothic novels and has been hugely influential through adaptations in fiction, on stage and in cinema.  Offering an authoritative, up-to-date guide for students, this book introduces its context, language, themes, criticism and afterlife, leading students to a more sophisticated understanding of... more...

  • Victorians in the Mountainsby Ann C. Colley

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 104.95

    Ann C. Colley examines archival accounts of tourists and female climbers, technological advances, and theatrical spectacle to trace the evolution of the sublime over the course of the nineteenth century. Chapters on John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Louis Stevenson, whose writings about the Alps reflect their feelings about their Romantic... more...

  • Bram Stoker's Draculaby Carol Margaret Davison; Paul Simpson-Housley

    Dundurn 1997; US$ 11.99

    A collection of essays by some of the world?s leading scholars analyzing and celebrating the novel?s legacy in popular culture. more...

  • Shelley and the Revolution in Tasteby Timothy Morton

    Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 40.00

    A highly original study of Shelley's thought in relation to diet, consumption, the body, nature, and culture. more...