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Gothic to Multicultural
Editions Rodopi 2009; US$ 152.60Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction , twenty-three essays each carefully revised from the past four decades, explores both range and individual register. The collection opens with considerations of gothic as light and dark in Charles Brockden Brown, war and peace in Coopers The Spy , Antarctica as world-genesis... more...
Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 99.95Picturing Scotland examines the genesis and production of the first author-approved illustrations for Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels in Scotland. Richard J. Hill shows that Scott, usually seen as indifferent to the mechanics of publishing, was actually at the forefront of one of the most lucrative publishing trends, the illustrated novel. Informed... more...
The Female Gothic
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 90.00This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions. more...
Gothic Romanticism
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 27.00This series of close readings relates architecture, politics, and literary form to shed new light on the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, offering new insights. more...
The Sappho Companion
Random House 2010; US$ 13.34Born around 630BC on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of ancient Greece, ironic and passionate, capturing the troubled depths of love. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name,... more...
The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Byron
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 125.00A comprehensive guide to the poems, prose, biography, ideas and contexts of Byron, entries range from detailed coverage of the major poems to items on Byron's songs, conversation, interest in boxing, swimming and vampires, and sexual liaisons; also the 'Byronic Hero', Byron in fiction and drama, and his pervasive influence on subsequent literature. more...
The Politics of Enchantment
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 42.95What do "raves" have to do with eighteenth-century Romanticism, or the latest communication technologies with historical ideas about language, media, and culture? Today's culture dazzles us with technological marvels and media spectacles. While we find them entertaining, just as often they are troubling - they seem to contradict common sense,... more...
Unsettled Remains
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2009; US$ 42.95Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their response to Canadian history. The essays gathered here range from treatments of early postcolonial gothic expression in Canadian literature to attempts... more...
The Educational Legacy of Romanticism
Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2006; US$ 48.95Papers of a conference held at the Calgary Institute of the Humanities, Oct. 13-18, 1988. more...
Blake and the New Age (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95First published in 1979, this is a very welcome reissue of Kathleen Raine's seminal study of William Blake - England?s only prophet. He challenged with extraordinary vigour the premises which now underline much of Western civilization, hitting hard at the ideas of a naive materialist philosophy which, even in his own day, was already eating at the... more...









