Late Victorian Gothic Tales, Paperback - Roger Luckhurst

The Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on ...

The only mainstream anthology to bring together the defining Gothic tales of the 1890sComplements and deepens the context for the most enduring Got...

The story of the Gothic, from early architecture and literature to the modern horror genre, illustrated by the beautiful, the macabre and the stran...

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Contributor(s): Author: Roger LuckhurstStanley Kubrick hailed The Shining as 'the scariest horror film of all time' before its release in 1980. Tho...

Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background...

Examines a set of perennial narrative motifs centred on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American ...

Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local lege...

Suitable for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture and critical theory, this title offers insight into the ...

The Gothic revival began in the early years of Victorias reign. It quickly became the dominant form of building. New and exciting, it reflected Bri...

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A magnificent panorama of the creative revolutions of mid-15th-century EuropeFrom roughly the 1430s onward, inspired by developments in the Netherl...

From hoop skirts to bustles: a practical book that's also fun to colorAn era that saw women's fashions go from hoop skirts to softly draped bustles...

This book explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British rep...

Victorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century poetic forms.Publisher:...

A new Bronte Mystery from Bella Ellis, a pen name for bestselling author, Rowan Coleman.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Bella EllisNumber o...

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Dark and brimming with suspense, an atmospheric Victorian chiller set in brooding County Durham for fans of Stacey Halls and Laura PurcellPublisher...

Supporting the guidelines of the new Key Stage 3 curriculum, this collection of contemporary and classic tales and poems is an ideal introduction t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nancy J. PriceEditor: Click AmericanaJust before the turn of the century, women found out about the latest "handsome" and "...

Reducere. The first high-quality reprint of a rare guide, this reproduction of an 1882 publication features fifty-two plates of original interior designs. Au...

Reducere. Being fashionable in the late Victorian era meant wearing things like dresses with puffed sleeves and high collars, and making sure to have a prope...

The ghoulish handiwork of nineteenth-century London - the rivals of the Ripper.Illustrations: 171 Illustrations, black and white

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A study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trialsPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Catheri...

Reducere. Tierney captures the extravagant fashions worn from the 1860s through 1910. Carefully researched, accurately rendered illustrations depict opera ca...

'The Darkened Room' looks at the central role played by women as healers, mediums, and believers in the golden age of spiritualism in the late Vict...

Beneath California's scenic landscape lies a strange and dark side, full of spine-tingling tales and frightful imagery. Creepy California: Strange ...

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DescriptionAfrica south of the Sahara is a land of wide-ranging traditions and varying cultures. Despite the diversity and the lack of early writte...

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Introduced by Sarah Perry, the best-selling author of The Essex Serpent. Uncanny. Mysterious. Eerie. Gothic. It draws us in with its air of mystery...

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Reimagining Dinosaurs is aimed at literary scholars, historians of science, and curious general readers. Unlike previous works, which suggest that ...

This anthology brings together 14 of the best Victorian fairy tales, by major period writers as well as specialists in the genre to show the vibran...

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