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The Dark-Hunter Companion

The Dark-Hunter Companion more books like this

by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Alethea Kontis

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"New York Times" bestselling author Kenyon presents an essential guide to the Dark-Hunter series, featuring synopses of the books, a breakdown of the world and rules of the Dark-Hunters, an Atlantean pronunciation guide, cover art, and much more.

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Vampire Companion

Vampire Companion more books like this

by Katherine M Ramsland

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Written with the full cooperation of Anne Rice - and now with more than 1,200 entries - The Vampire Companion offers an insightful exploration, appreciation, and interpretation of all the characters and events, names and places, symbols and themes in the five volumes of The Vampire Chronicles, including more than one hundred pages of new entries ...

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Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley more books like this

by Graham Allen

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Graham Allen provides both an introduction to and review of the critical responses to Mary Shelley's major fictions, from the Romantic period to the present day, while also pushing debates forward. The book moves beyond Frankenstein, presenting new readings of other texts such as Matilda, Valperga, The Last Man and Lodore.

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Biographia Literaria

Biographia Literaria more books like this

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge's "literary life and opinions [on] poetry and poetical criticism," dictated to a friend in the summer of 1815 and published in 1817, includes a critique of Wordsworth's poetic ideas, specifically on diction. Coleridge takes issue with Wordsworth's famous idea that the language of poetry and the language of common speech should be the ...

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Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature 1767-1867

Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature 1767-1867 more books like this

by Lance Newman, Joel Pace, Chris Koenig-Woodyard

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This eagerly-anticipated anthology offers canonical and non-canonical texts from American, British, and Canadian Romantic writers. This long-overdue anthology of Romantic literature meets the growing demand for a coherent and flexible transatlantic Romantic reader. It offers a range of representative materials by the most central, as well as non ...

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Frankenstein: A Cultural History

Frankenstein: A Cultural History more books like this

by Susan Tyler Hitchcock

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This lively history of the Frankenstein myth, illuminated by dozens of pictures and illustrations, is told with skill and humor. Hitchcock uses film, literature, history, science, and even punk music to help readers understand the meaning of this monster made by man.

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Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation

Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation more books like this

by Professor Teresa A Goddu

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The gothic novel -the literary stronghold of ghosts, family curses, imperiled heroines and cumbersome plots- might be thought to fall under the category of "escapist fiction." But in this groundbreaking reappraisal, Teresa Goddu demonstrates that the American Gothic novel was, in often surprising ways, actively engaged with social, political, and ...

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The Sensible Spirit: Walter Pater and the Modernist Paradigm more books like this

by F C McGrath

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Romanticism: A Sourcebook

Romanticism: A Sourcebook more books like this

by Simon Bainbridge (Editor)

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A wide-ranging collection of the key contextual documents which inform the Romantic period. It includes material on fiercely debated areas such as the French Revolution, women, the slave trade, science and religion. Documents are supported by substantial editorial material, drawing connections to the major Romantic texts.

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Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions: Subversive Laughter, Embodied History

Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions: Subversive Laughter, Embodied History more books like this

by Jill Heydt-Stevenson

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"Jane Austen: Body, Humor, and History" is a contemporary study of all Jane Austen's writings focusing on her representation of women, sexuality, the material objects and linguistic patterns by which this sexuality was expressed.

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The Political Writings: Selected Aphorisms and Other Texts

The Political Writings: Selected Aphorisms and Other Texts more books like this

by Noah Heringman, Alfarabi, Professor Thomas L Pangle (Editor)

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Alfarabi was among the first to explore the tensions between the philosophy of classical Greece and that of Islam, as well as of religion generally. His writings, extraordinary in their breadth and deep learning, have had a profound impact on Islamic and Jewish philosophy. This volume presents four of Alfarabi's most important texts, making his ...

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Seven Gothic Dramas: 1789-1825 more books like this

by Jeffrey N Cox (Editor)

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Gothic more books like this

by David Punter (Editor)

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The Gothic has become in recent years an enormously popular and respected field of study. Courses dealing wholly or partly with Gothic writing are now standard in English and cultural studies departments across the world. In response to this extraordinary growth and expansion, David Punter has compiled a Companion designed to become the standard ...

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Coleridge, Language & Criticism more books like this

by Timothy Corrigan

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Long celebrated as a great aesthetic idealist and champion of the imagination, Coleridge is now beginning to be understood as a literary critic with many other dimensions, with exciting and far-reaching insights into language, and with detailed notions about the psychological, historical, and linguistic demands of the literary experience. In this ...

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Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World more books like this

by Timothy Morton, Marilyn Butler (Editor), James Chandler (Editor)

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This book brings together the themes of diet, consumption, the body, and human relationships with the natural world, in a highly original study of Shelley. A campaigning vegetarian and proto-ecological thinker, Shelley may seem to us curiously modern, but Morton offers an illuminatingly broad context for Shelley's views in eighteenth-century ...

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Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Frankenstein more books like this

by Carol J Adams, Douglas Buchanan, Kelly Gesch

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A bolt-necked monster opens his eyes, lifts himself from his laboratory table, then lurches and stumbles toward his creator. Do we know this image because we are movie-watchers? When we imagine Frankenstein's monster, do we draw upon Mary Shelley's description? Or Boris Karloff's iconic look from the 1931 film by James Whale? Whether as cliche or ...

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Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction more books like this

by Steven Bruhm

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An intriguing scholarly investigation, not so much of the ways the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries articulated pain, but of the ways in which pain itself articulated the late eighteenth-century experience. Through analysis of novels, plays, and poems, the author explores the transition from sensibility as a sense of "selflessness" ...

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Horror and the Holy: Wisdom-Teachings of the Monster Tale more books like this

by Dr. Kirk J Schneider

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Throughout history, human beings have been strangely fascinated by the monstrous and the macabre. In this study of the classic horror story, Dr Schneider explains the enormous attraction of these tales as a result of our thirst for the sacred, and identifies elements of the holy in familiar blood-curdling yarns. Schneider presents an outline and ...

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American Gothic Fiction more books like this

by Allan Lloyd Smith, Allan Lloyd Smith

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Following the structure of other titles in the Continuum Introductions to Literary Genres series, American Gothic Fiction includes: A broad definition of the genre and its essential elements. A timeline of developments within the genre. Critical concerns to bear in mind while reading in the genre. Detailed readings of a range of widely taught ...

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Bram Stoker: Dracula more books like this

by William Hughes, Professor Nicolas Tredell (Editor)

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This comprehensive survey of the critical response to "Dracula "provides an overview of the trends and development of work surrounding the novel. The critics and approaches discussed range from the earliest studies to the present day, with particular emphasis on biography, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, Irish studies and gender.

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Romance Writing more books like this

by Lynne Pearce

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"Romance Writing" explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. Indeed, it is one of the first studies to approach romantic love as both genre and discourse in more than sixty years. Faced with the challenge of writing a cultural history for what is ...

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Gothic and Modernism: Essaying Dark Literary Modernity more books like this

by Professor John Paul Riquelme (Editor)

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Gothic and Modernism establishes and interprets the significant presence and the transformations of the Gothic tradition at the dark heart of writing during the long twentieth century. Artfully introduced and collected by John Paul Riquelme, the essays-nine previously published in Modern Fiction Studies-reveal challenges to both realism and to ...

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Eighteenth-Century Characters: A Guide to the Literature of the Age more books like this

by Elaine McGirr

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"Eighteenth Century Characters" offers a brief introduction to the literature of the Eighteenth century, using character types as its starting point. It presents contextualized readings of stock characters, such as the rake, the fop, the coquette and the country maid, exploring how these characters' significance and roles change over the century. ...

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Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre more books like this

by Sara Lodge, Professor Nicolas Tredell (Editor)

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This book offers a clear and lively introduction to a broad range of key critical responses - from Victorian times to the present - to one of the most widely-studied nineteenth-century novels.It provides an approachable structure which effectively combines a chronological and thematic approach, starting with Victorian responses and moving through ...

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Gothic and the Comic Turn more books like this

by Avril Horner, Sue Zlosnik

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Although Gothic writing is now seen as significant for an understanding of modernity, it is still largely characterized as a literature of fear and anxiety. Gothic and the Comic Turn argues that, partly through its desire to be taken seriously, Gothic criticism has neglected the comic doppelganger that has always inhabited the Gothic mode and ...

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