Gothic Romantic category: 300 books
Gothic Britain
Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is informed by, the British regional experience. Acknowledging how the so-called United Kingdom has historically been divided on nationalistic lines, the twelve original essays in this volume interrogate the...
by Aspasia Stephanou
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
This book examines the manifestations of materiality across different gothic media to show the inhuman at the heart of literature, film and contemporary media, outlining a philosophy of horror that deals with the horror of the nonhuman, the machine and the nonorganic.
The author explores how...
Sinister histories
Gothic novels and representations of the past, from Horace Walpole to Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Sinister histories is the first book to offer a detailed exploration of the Gothic's response to Enlightenment historiography. It uncovers hitherto-neglected relationships between fiction and prominent works of eighteenth-century history, locating the Gothic novel in a range of new interdisciplinary...
Dark Assemblages
Pilar Pedraza and the Gothic Story of Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book examines strategies of transformation (becomings, image-making, and the phantasmagoric) that figure in four stories and a novel by Gothic fiction writer Pilar Pedraza (Spain, 1951). While critics have long associated the Bildungsroman with Gothic fiction, this study takes a close look at...
Journeys into Darkness
Critical Essays on Gothic Horror
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
The tradition of supernatural horror fiction runs deep in Anglo-American literature. From the Gothic novels of the eighteenth century to such contemporary authors as Stephen King and Anne Rice, writers have employed horror fiction to unearth many disquieting truths about the human condition, ranging...
Gothic incest
Gender, sexuality and transgression
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires. It provides interdisciplinary readings of incest within father-daughter, sibling, mother-son, cousin and uncle-niece relationships...
Queer Others in Victorian Gothic
Transgressing Monstrosity
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. From mid-century authors like Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth...
A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English
Print and Electronic Sources
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English covers Gothic cultural artifacts such as literature, film, graphic novels, and videogames. This authoritative guide equips researchers with valuable recent information about noteworthy resources that they can use to study the Gothic effectively and thoroughly.
George Eliot and the Gothic Novel
Genres, Gender and Feeling
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
George Eliot and the Gothic Novel is the first monograph to systematically explore George Eliot’s relationship to Gothic genres. It considers the ways in which the author’s ethics link to sensational story-telling tropes. Reappraising the major works of fiction, this study compares passages of...
Legacies of Romanticism
Literature, Culture, Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This book visits the Romantic legacy that was central to the development of literature and culture from the 1830s onward. Although critical accounts have examined aspects of this long history of indebtedness, this is the first study to survey both Nineteenth and Twentieth century culture.
The...
by Caroline Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
When Vicar Flemming arrives with his wife, Eva, to take up his post in the Victorian village of Braxton in northern England, his handsome figure sets the ladies's hearts aflutter, including that of Victorine Ellsworth, a young girl in her mid-teens who is bright, beautiful and bored by the confinement...
by Montague Summers
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
by Robert McKay, John Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Wolves lope across Gothic imagination. Signs of a pure animality opposed to humanity, in the figure of the werewolf they become liminal creatures that move between the human and the animal. Werewolves function as a site for exploring complex anxieties of difference – of gender, class, race, space,...
The Queer Uncanny
New Perspectives on the Gothic
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
The Queer Uncanny: New Perspectives on the Gothic investigates the diverse roles that the uncanny, as defined by Sigmund Freud, Helene Cixous and other theorists, plays in representing lesbian and male gay sexualities and transgender in a selection of contemporary British, American and Caribbean fiction...