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Class, Culture and Suburban Anxieties in the Victorian Era
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 133.00This 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 Gothic
University of Wales Press 2009; US$ 85.00This book explores the paradox that the Gothic (todays 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 Poets
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 78.40Romantic 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 Realities
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2010; US$ 35.00Eighteenth-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 Fiction
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 90.00Exploring 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)
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 42.95The 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 Dracula
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 90.00Dracula (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 Mountains
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 104.95Ann 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 Dracula
Dundurn 1997; US$ 11.99A 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 Taste
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 40.00A highly original study of Shelley's thought in relation to diet, consumption, the body, nature, and culture. more...









