Gothic Romantic category: 300 books

On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as humanities, musicology, film studies, television studies, English and digital humanities. These innovative...

A highly conscious wordsmith, Daniel Defoe used expository styles in his fiction and non-fiction that reflected his ability to perceive material and intellectual phenomena from opposing, but not contradictory perspectives. Moreover, the boundaries of genre within his wide-ranging oeuvre can prove...

You just KNOW you can do it... If you have ever read a romance novel of any kind, you probably felt that you could easily write one, too. Only, which kind? There is the historical romance, the fantasy romance, the regency, the futuristic, the shape-shifter and vampire romance, not to...

First published 1984. In a provocative study, this book argues that the problems posed by Shelley’s notoriously difficult style must be understood in relation to his ambivalence towards language itself as an artistic medium — the tension between the potential of language to mirror emotional experience...

This study describes a variety of ways of thinking about place in the Renaissance and in Paradise Lost. Despite coming from different perspectives, they have in common the idea that the difficulty of the relationship of reciprocity that poetic subjects often expect from their environment destabilizes...

Esta coletânea é composta por três ensaios: "Presença do Gótico", de Laura Sandroni; "O Sangue de Drácula", de Rodrigo Lacerda e "Lúgubres Mistérios", de Luiz Antonio Aguiar. No primeiro ensaio, Laura Sandroni esboça uma linha evolutiva da literatura gótica...

Esta coletânea é composta por três ensaios: "Histórias para sentir medo", de Pedro Bandeira; "O fascínio do medo", de Luiz Raul Machado; "Sombras da adolescência", de Daniel Piza e "O terror diz: 'até breve!'", de Luiz Antonio Aguiar. No primeiro ensaio, Pedro Bandeira faz interessantes observações...

She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective novel." This collection includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. The Leavenworth...

Samuel Johnson’s life was situated within a rich social and intellectual community of friendships—and antagonisms. Community and Solitude is a collection of ten essays that explores relationships between Johnson and several of his main contemporaries—including James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances...

This Reader's Guide analyses the critical history of two of Hardy's major tragic novels, from the time of their publication to the present. Simon Avery traces the changing critical fortunes of the texts and explores the diverse range of interpretations produced by different theoretical approaches.

Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912) is one of Italy’s most canonical and beloved poets. In Beyond the Family Romance, Maria Truglio offers fresh insight into the uncanny qualities of Pascoli’s domestic verse. As suggested by the Freudian title, this study opens a dialogue between Pascoli’s literature...

Beginning film studies offers the ideal introduction to this vibrant subject. Written accessibly and with verve, it ranges across the key topics and manifold approaches to film studies. Andrew Dix has thoroughly updated the first edition, and this new volume includes new case studies, overviews of...

This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime. The book takes a chronological approach, covering the earliest ancient traditions up through the early and late modern periods and into contemporary theory. It takes an inclusive, interdisciplinary...

Cet essai sur les origines du roman « gothique » anglais tente de cerner les phénomènes divers qui ont présidé à l'émergence de ce genre littéraire vers la fin du XVIIIe siècle en Angleterre. En examinant ses sources et en le remettant en situation, cet ouvrage entend redonner au gothique...