The Gothic

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Gothic Utterance explores the vital role played by haunted and haunting voices in American Gothic literature produced between the Revolutionary War...

Monster texts like Frankenstein reflect monstrosity in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance against systemic cultural oppre...

The Haunted States of America: Gothic Regionalism in Post-war American fiction focuses on existing regional Gothic strains to examine how the anxie...

This book examines Gothic representations of childhood and adolescence in hemispheric American literature.Publisher: University of Wales PressAutho...

This book demonstrates how Gothic literature experiments with and subverts Romantic medical debates to reassess the power of nonnormative bodies wi...

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

Barry Forshaw celebrates with enthusiasm the British horror film and its fascination for macabre cinema. A definitive study of the genre, British G...

A radical reassessment of the role of movement, emotion, and the viewing experience in Gothic sculpture

Addresses the question of how and why Horace Walpole and the men of his circle promoted the Gothic style in art, architecture, and literature in th...

Most horror film fans are familiar with the classics, from the early Universal archetypes to the Hammer landmarks - all of which have been celebrat...

An architect and architectural theorist, George Edmund Street was one of the key proponents of the 'High Victorian' Gothic style in nineteenth-cent...

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Reducere. Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the zombies in The Wa...

DescriptionIn this beautifully illustrated study, Paul Binski offers a new account of sculpture in England and northwestern Europe between c. 1000 ...

Reducere. Italian Gothic horror films of the 1970s were influenced by the violent giallo movies and adults-only comics of the era, resulting in a graphic app...

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Presents twenty-seven graded readings, each accompanied by a vocabulary and an explanation of grammatical details; the final chapter provides a sam...

Thoroughly expanded and updated, this widely acclaimed Companion provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and gen...

Reducere. The description for this book, The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order, will be forthcoming.

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

This book, first published in 2003, is a detailed survey of book scripts used in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530. Illustrated with...

Reducere. When The Monk first appeared in 1796, critics were shocked and outraged. That a Member of Parliament should publish a novel filled with blasphemy, ...

Kimbel and Cabus were among the most progressive design reformers of their time. Modern Gothic is the first publication to explore the timeless Ame...

Reducere. Provides a scholarly account of the striking interplay between the Gothic and theory over two-and-a-half centuries This collection provides a thoro...

An architect and architectural theorist, George Edmund Street was one of the key proponents of the 'High Victorian' Gothic style in nineteenth-cent...

Reducere. Phantom of the Opera meets Beauty and the Beast in this gothic-inspired dark fantasy romance.A haunted tower, a mysterious instructor and the lure ...

While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gil...

Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. In this beautifully illustrated magisterial chronicle, Stephen Murray tells the cathedr...

Reducere. The 9th century Welsh poem "Preiddeu Annfwyn" or "The Raid on the Underworld" ascribed to the 6th century poet and shaman Taliesin, is one of the o...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Faye RingelNumber of pages: 112Collection: Anthem ImpactPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 229 x 151 x 15Cover typ...

Reducere. "The present work is designed to provide a carefully graded introduction to the grammar and vocabulary of the Gothic language. The material is pres...

Publisher: Peter Lang LtdIllustration(s): 46 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 264Collection: Genre Fiction and Film CompanionsPublication...

The endangered and dangerous female figures of "Rebecca", of "Jagged Edge" and "What Lies Beneath" have a deserved and endures fascination. This wo...

Reducere. What happens when writers vacation together ...And challenge each other to write ghost stories?On a stormy night in 1816, the writers Mary Shelley,...

Reducere. Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and ...

Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hithert...

A compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland. -- .Publisher: Manchester Uni...

Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with...

Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent "barbarians" who destroyed "civilization, " at least in the conve...

DescriptionReveals the occult wisdom and multidimensional layers of meaning hidden in the Nordic Rune stones - Explores the practice of the Uthark ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Joseph A. (Author) McCulloughNumber of pages: 160Collection: The Silver BayonetPublication date: 202...

Reducere. Drawing together literature, media, and philosophy, Ghostly Apparitions provides a new model for media archaeology and its transformation of intell...

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This is the first monograph that brings together the fields of Gothic Studies and children's fiction to analyse a range of popular and literary wor...

Reducere. Matilda Weimar flees her lecherous and incestuous uncle and seeks refuge in the ancient Castle of Wolfenbach. Among the castle's abandoned chambers...

Reducere. The Ghosts of Yearning is a gothic novella partially inspired by The Sixth Sense, The Notebook, and The Turn of the Screw. It centers on the lives ...

"Vengeance flashed from his inflamed eye-balls: he drew a poniard from his bosom, and stabbed me to the heart; then, with a horrid shout of exultat...

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Looks at the interaction between design and the requirements of patrons, follows the creative processes of architects, and discusses chronology, st...

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DescriptionAn era marked by sweeping change, the age of Queen Victoria was a time of rapid modernization as well as social and political upheaval, ...

Reducere. Powerful and evocative, this postmodern Book of the Dead is for mystics, witches, goths, and anyone attracted to the beauty and mystery of death--a...

Reducere. The basic texts of Marxist socialism. Preface gives an easy-to- understand introduction to Marxist philosophy. Includes the complete texts of "The ...

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Reducere. John Fitchen systematically treats the process of erecting the great edifices of the Gothic era. He explains the building equipment and falsework n...

Reducere. This anthology argues for the serious study of the literary oeuvre of Anne Rice, a major figure in today's popular literature. The essays assert th...

Reducere. Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to...

Reducere. The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in i...

Reducere. Brace yourself for a journey into a creepy, dark side of the American Midwest you thought you knew--a side teeming with real-life surrealism and hi...

Reducere. During a period of twenty years--from his start as a young writer for H. L. Mencken's classic pulp magazine The Black Mask in the early 1930s, thro...

Queen of French Noir, Johana Gustawsson returns with a spell-binding, dazzlingly dark gothic thriller that swings from Belle Epoque France to 21st-...

Reducere. This beautiful jacketed hardcover brings together 23 chilling tales by landmark gothic writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Sheridan L...

Reducere. What happens when writers vacation together ...And challenge each other to write ghost stories?On a stormy night in 1816, the writers Mary Shelley,...

Stephen King's popularity lies in his ability to reinterpret the standard Gothic tale in new and exciting ways. Through his eyes, the conventional ...

Reducere. In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was ...

Key Concepts in the Gothic' provides a one-stop resource which details and defines, in accessible language, those contexts essential for the study ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Wild West is infamous for its outrageous stories, cowboys, and gun battles. But the region is also known for its ghost stories, unex...

Reducere. Welcome to Cabin Green, where the setting is familiar, but the story is completely unexpected. "A spectacular read...absolutely gripping. I couldn'...