Gothic Romantic category: 300 books
by Catherine Delafield
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Examining the Victorian serial as a text in its own right, Catherine Delafield re-reads five novels by Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Dinah Craik and Wilkie Collins by situating them in the context of periodical publication. She traces the roles of the author and editor in the creation and dissemination...
Middlebrow Wodehouse
P.G. Wodehouse's Work in Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
While he is best known for his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories, P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer who penned many other novels, stories, and musical comedy libretti, the latter of which played an enormous role in the development of American musical theater. This collection re-examines Wodehouse...
Economic Investigations in Twentieth-Century Detective Fiction
Expenditure, Labor, Value
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour. Using the detective as a reference point and enactor...
by Geoffrey Yarlott
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
First published in 1967, this book seeks to show the causes which led to Coleridge’s breakdown in 1802 and to indicate how his views on poetry changed as a result of it. The approach is selective in that it only focuses on one part of Coleridge’s life (roughly 1793-1810); however the author attempts...
Peace, war and party politics
The Conservatives and Europe, 1846–59
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book examines the mid-Victorian Conservative Party’s significant but overlooked role in British foreign policy and in contemporary debate about Britain’s relations with Europe. It considers the Conservatives’ response, in opposition and government, to the tumultuous era of Napoleon III, the Crimean war and Italian unification.
The Irish Fairy Tale
A Narrative Tradition from the Middle Ages to Yeats and Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Beginning with a critical reappraisal of the notion of “fairy tale” and extending it to include categories and genres which are in common usage in folklore and in literary studies, this book throws light on the general processes involved in storytelling. It illuminates the fundamental ways in...
by Anna Maynard Barbour
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
An American author of best-selling fiction. A 1903 article in the The Atlantic Monthly stated that "A. Maynard Barbour has been generally hailed as the most successful of American writers of mystery."
Includes an active table of contents so you can use your NOOK's GOTO CHAPTER feature...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories,...
Shelley's Music
Fantasy, Authority and the Object Voice
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
First published in 2009. This book argues that the images of and allusions to music in Shelley’s writing demonstrate his attempt to infuse the traditionally masculine word with the traditionally feminine voice and music. This further extends to his even more fundamental desire to integrate the "object...
by Julie Nash
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Writing during periods of dramatic social change, Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell were both attracted to the idea of radical societal transformation at the same time that their writings express nostalgia for a traditional, paternalistic ruling class. The author shows how this tension is played...
Inquiring Spirit
A New Presentation of Coleridge from His Published and Unpublished Prose Writings (Revised Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
When this work was first prepared for publication in 1949 the Notebooks and Collected Letters were still in manuscript, and many of the printed works, if not unavailable, were scarce. The continuing publication of Coleridge's works has not lessened the demand for a general introduction to Coleridge's...
Wuthering Heights
Character Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
Readers and critics have been intrigued - and disturbed - by the characters of Wuthering Heights since its publication in 1847. Heathcliff and Catherine, the tormented and enigmatic lovers at the centre of the novel, have justifiably been the focus of critical attention. Yet the novel is peopled with...
Experience into Thought
Perspectives in the Coleridge Notebooks
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
Coleridge is admired as a genius and derided as an opium addict and plagiarist. The aim here has been to examine his experiences, moods, thoughts, and reactions as a whole and their relation to poems such as Christabel, the Ancient Mariner, and the Dejection ode, and to his prose works, and also to...
by James L Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 1965
This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.