The Horror of the Familiar. The Female Gothic in the American Century - Raluca Andreescu

Raluca Andreescu 978-973-611-937-8

The rapid decline of the bastions of American power established over the twentieth century is the subject of this extensive historical analysis emp...

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

Nature and Culture in the American Gothic - Ioana Baciu

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Reducere. Nature and Culture in the American Gothic - este o carte care se adreseaza unui public divers: studenti ai literaturii americane, profesori, cercet...

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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...

Animals behaving oddly, people falling suddenly ill - what's creeping around down at the farm? Crooked Oak's mystery-solving team return with anoth...

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

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The volume offers a substantial and innovative appraisal of the role of the female voice from the perspective of twentieth-century performance prac...

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DescriptionNo nation was more deeply affected by America's rise to world power than Japan. President Franklin Roosevelt's uncompromising policy of ...

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

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

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...

Tells a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, explosives and, of cou...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Travis LinnemannIllustration(s): 16 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022D...

Understanding US culture through the post-apocalyptic novel This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to ...

DescriptionIn 1941 the magazine publishing titan Henry R. Luce urged the nation's leaders to create an American Century. But in the post-World-War-...

Reducere. DescriptionAndrew Bacevich is a leading American public intellectual, writing in the fields of culture and politics with particular attention to wa...

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The New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television.Publisher: The Uni...

Reducere. The classic monsters have returned... again During the gothic horror revival of the late 1950s through the 1970s, vampires, witches, devil worshipe...

Whether it is the resuscitated corpse that visits a hotel gust in The House of the Dead or the maleficent returning warlock cocooning a tomb robber...

A prodigiously researched biography of Vannevar Bush, one of America's most awe-inspiring polymaths and the secret force behind the biggest technol...

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

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

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Reducere. The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced ...

Reducere. With John Lee Hooker's death in June 2001 the world lost one of the last great Mississippi Delta bluesmen. Acclaimed writer Charles Schaar Murray's...

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 ...

Reducere. Manfred, the lord of the castle of Otranto, has long lived in dread of an ancient prophecy: it's foretold that when his family line ends, the true ...

Reducere. Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt returned for one last...

A vivid biography of John Lee Hooker, from a critically acclaimed journalist

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Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize "Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic histo...

The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and wizard have be...

The compelling love story of two extraordinary individuals - Nancy Mitford and Free French commander Gaston Palewski - living in extraordinary time...

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Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1900 and 1950, Americans built the most powerful steam locomotives of all time--enormous engines that powered a colossal industr...