This study explores the relations between reader and text across the span of Sheridan Le Fanu's career, placing his early work of the 1830s in context. Victor Sage concentrates on the development in Le Fanu of hybrid forms, which mingle satire and comedy with Gothic horror, and also discusses the early work of "Uncle Silas" and "Carmilla", giving ...
This collection of essays aims to chart the survival of the gothic strain - the dark, the forbidding, the alienated and the fantastic. The book represents a variety of approaches from a group of international scholars to the making of a contemporary tradition. It offers information and interpretation concerning the presence of gothicism in a ...
When Raymond and Zonda are picked up one day, they find themselves at the centre of a colossal deal between America, Europe and the Third World. Moving between the worlds of horse-racing and high finance, the narrative unfolds amidst a wave of kidnappings and bombings spreading across Europe.
Set in late 1980s Greece, against a background of terrorism and a collapsing socialist regime, this novel by the author of "A Mirror for the Larks", traces the overlapping lives of three women, Kelly, Barbara and Antigone. Their stories set gender, language, culture and politics against each other.
An attempt to analyze in detail the cultural determinants of a literary form, relocating them for a modern reader in certain preoccupations common to theology and law throughout the period from the Glorious Revolution to the First World War and beyond. The ultimate subject of this study is the deposit of cultural expectations available, often ...
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