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Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 115.00Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature examines the Gothic's engagement with the Jewish Question and British national identity over the course of a century. Beginning with an exploration of Jewish demonology from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Davison interprets the changing significance of the trans-national Wandering Jew in classic... more...
Empire and the Gothic
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 145.00This innovative volume considers the relationship between the Gothic and theories of Post-Colonialism. Contributors explore how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Arunhati Roy and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala use the Gothic for postcolonial ends. Post-Colonial theory is applied to earlier Gothic narratives in order to re-examine the ostensibly colonialist... more...
Romanticism, History, Historicism
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 134.00The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our sense of the Romantic period twenty-five years on. Romantic New Historicism?s revisionary engagements have played a central role in the realignment of the field and in the expansion of the Romantic... more...
Staging Early Modern Romance
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 44.95This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction, the dramatic romances staged in England during the 1570s and 1580s, and Shakespeare?s late plays. Although Pericles, Cymbeline, Winter?s Tale , and The Tempest have long been... more...
Romancing God
The University of North Carolina Press 2006; US$ 22.00In the world of the evangelical romance novel, sex and desire are mitigated by an omnipresent third party--the divine. Thus romance is not just an encounter between lovers, but a triangle of affection: man, woman, and God. Although this literature is often disparaged by scholars and pastors alike, inspirational fiction plays a unique and important... more...
Contemporary Gothic
Reaktion Books 2007; US$ 23.95Spooner traces the emergence of the Gothic subculture over the past few decades and examines the various aspects of contemporary society that revolve around the grotesque, abject, and artificial. more...
Romanticism and Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 120.00Covering the entire field of Romanticism from its eighteenth-century origins in the writing of William Cowper to late-twentieth-century manifestations in the work of Wallace Stevens, this collection is an original and much-needed intervention in Romantic studies, bringing together the contextual awareness of recent historicist scholarship with the... more...
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Sublime and Beautiful
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 21.95Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton. 'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.'? The Guardian Edmund Burke?s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of... more...
Coleridge and Shelley
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 99.95Sally West's timely study explores Coleridge's influence on Shelley's poetic development, while engaging with the larger subject of literary influence. West argues that there is a direct correlation between Shelley's desire for political and social transformation and his appropriation, and transformation, of Coleridge language, imagery,... more...
Republicanism and the American Gothic
University of Wales Press 2009; US$ 85.00This book is a comparative study of British and American literature and culture in the 1790s and 1950s. It explores the republican tradition of the British Enlightenment and the effect of its translation and migration to the American colonies. more...









