Gothic and the Comic Turn

Avril Horner
Hardcover - $170.95

Although Gothic writing is now seen as significant for an understanding of modernity, it is still largely characterized as a literature of fear and anxiety. Gothic and the Comic Turn argues that, partly through its desire to be taken seriously, Gothi ...

Reading Gothic Fiction : A Bakhtinian Approach

Jacqueline Howard
Hardcover - $397.95

This is the first full-length study of Gothic to be written from the perspective of Bakhtinian theory. Through discussions of works like Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho, Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, and Mary Shelley' ...

The Dark-Hunter Companion

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Paperback - $32.95

Consider this handbook your education. Hunter 101. And don't go thinking you got off easy just because there's not a pop quiz at the end. This is the good stuff. The real deal. In here you'll find out all there is to know about being a Dark-Hunter. < ...

Studies in the Marvellous

Benjamin P. Kurtz
Paperback - $36.95

Throughout the course of romance on element occurs continually, the marvellous. In the literature of every age its presence is provocative of pleasure or criticism upon the part of the reading or learned public. In the myth and legend of the barbaria ...

The Dangerous Lover : Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative

Deborah Lutz
Hardcover - $82.95

Eighteenth-Century Characters : A Guide to the Literature of the Age

Elaine McGirr
Paperback - $62.95

"Eighteenth Century Characters" offers a brief introduction to the literature of the Eighteenth century, using character types as its starting point. It presents contextualized readings of stock characters, such as the rake, the fop, the coquette and ...

Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era : Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity

Robert Mitchell
Hardcover - $265.95

Loving with a Vengence : Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women

Tania Modleski
Paperback - $47.95

Upon its first publication, Loving with a Vengeance was a groundbreaking study of women readers and their relationship to mass-market romance fiction. Feminist scholar and cultural critic Tania Modleski has revisited her widely read book, bringing to ...

Shelley and the Revolution in Taste : The Body and the Natural World

Timothy Morton
Paperback - $107.95

This groundbreaking study addresses the representation of food and drink in the works of Percy and Mary Shelley. With original studies of much-debated texts, it provides new perspectives in recent cultural history and theory concerning medicine and d ...

Shelley and the Revolution in Taste : The Body and the Natural World

Timothy Morton
Hardcover - $254.95

This groundbreaking study addresses the representation of food and drink in the works of Percy and Mary Shelley. With original studies of much-debated texts, it provides new perspectives in recent cultural history and theory concerning medicine and d ...