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Book cover for Marie Mulvey-Roberts: The Handbook to Gothic Literature

The Handbook to Gothic Literature

Marie Mulvey-Roberts
Paperback - $46.95

From Anne Rice's best-selling novels to our recurrent interest in vampires and the occult, the Gothic has an unyielding hold on our imagination. But what exactly does "Gothic" mean? How does it differ from "terror" or "horror," and where do its param ...

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Romancing God : Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction

Lynn S. Neal
Paperback - $39.95

Although often disparaged by scholars and pastors alike, Christian romance novels play a unique and important role in the religious lives of many evangelical women. In an ethnographic study of how and why women read evangelical romance novels, Neal i ...

Book cover for Rictor Norton: Gothic Readings

Gothic Readings

Rictor Norton
Paperback - $138.95

The Gothic tradition has fascinated both readers and scholars for centuries. Now, Continuum presents a sourcebook for all Gothic enthusiasts. Rictor Norton has assembled selections from such seminal figures in Gothic literature as Horace Walpole, Mar ...

Book cover for Patrick R. OMalley: Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture

Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture

Patrick R. OMalley
Hardcover - $225.95

O???Malley explores Victorian Gothic as a genre through which British authors defined their culture and what was outside it.

Book cover for Lynne Pearce: Romance Writing

Romance Writing

Lynne Pearce
Paperback - $51.95

Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. It is the first major historical engagement of romantic love, as both genre and discourse, sinc ...

Book cover for Valerie Pedlar: The Most Dreadful Visitation

The Most Dreadful Visitation : Male Madness in Victorian Fiction

Valerie Pedlar
Hardcover - $158.95

Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But while madness in Victorian fiction has been much studied, most ...

Book cover for Franz J. Potter: The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835

The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835 : Exhuming the Trade

Franz J. Potter
Hardcover - $138.95

To better understand and contextualise the twilight of the Gothic genre during the 1920s and 1830s, "The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade" examines the disreputable aspects of the Gothic trade from its horrid bluebooks to t ...

Book cover for David Punter: The Gothic

The Gothic

David Punter
Hardcover - $181.95

This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies.

Book cover for David Punter: The Gothic

The Gothic

David Punter
Paperback - $82.95

This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies.

Book cover for Katherine M. Ramsland: The Vampire Companion

The Vampire Companion

Katherine M. Ramsland
Paperback - $30.95

Written with the full cooperation of Anne Rice - and now with more than 1,200 entries - The Vampire Companion offers an insightful exploration, appreciation, and interpretation of all the characters and events, names and places, symbols and themes in ...

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