Gothic & Romantic 14

A memoir about writing a novel about searching for love. Is romance dead? Is that why there are so many vampires in today's romance novels? When Avi Steinberg's love life took a grim turn, he did wh……続きを見る

Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Counterfactual Romanticism reveals the ways in which ……続きを見る

Ci sono figure dell'immaginario che affondano le loro radici in un lontano passato ma che tornano e ritornano in forme nuove. E che vanno dunque continuamente rilette, sottoposte a quell'operazione ……続きを見る

"Dans le domaine littéraire, le merveilleux seul est capable de féconder des œuvres ressortissant à un genre inférieur tel que le roman et d’une façon générale tout ce qui participe de l’anecdote. L……続きを見る

Winner of the 2019 Broken Frontier Award for Best Book on Comics Today fans still remember and love the British girls’ comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities*.* Yet its unique h……続きを見る

Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers, and Zora Neale Hurston, Claire Raymond uncovers a pattern of femininity co……続きを見る

L'auteur plonge dans la magie de l'épopée de Guts, qui a fait frémir un grand nombre de lecteurs par sa profondeur et sa maitrise... Publié à partir de 2004 par Glénat en France, Berserk est un mang……続きを見る

Valérie Précigout explore l'univers de Masami Kurumada et du phénomène Saint-Seiya... Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque. C’est sous cette appellation qui véhicule aujourd’hui de profonds accents de nostalg……続きを見る

Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centurie……続きを見る

Pedro Otávio é o promotor de justiça; atraente e fascinante; habilidoso e eficiente que toca saxofone enquanto acompanhamos os seus passos. Ele sabe ser implacável com as testemunhas, capta os senti……続きを見る

First published in 1986. It is often suggested that the great first generation of Romantics, after the first flush of their revolutionary enthusiasm, ‘sold out’ to the forces of conservatism and rea……続きを見る

Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombie……続きを見る

Si dice, ma non è dimostrato, che intorno all’anno 1230 il misterioso Uguccione da Lodi, di cui ben poco si sa, fosse avvicinato da sinistri individui associati alla setta segreta dell’Avvento dell’……続きを見る

Following the publication of Ghost Town (2005), a complex, globally conscious genealogy of millennial Manhattan, McGrath’s transnational status as an English author resident in New York, his pointed……続きを見る

Widely regarded as one of the foremost cultural critics of the last century, Walter Benjamin's relation to Modernism has largely been understood in the context of his reception of the aesthetic theo……続きを見る

From the ghosts which reside in Midlands council houses in Every Day is Mother's Day to the resurrected historical dead of the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, the writings of……続きを見る

You’ve read the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. You thought it was a great sci-fi novel. But what if it wasn’t? What if it was an even better psychological thriller instead? Arthur Belefant did ……続きを見る

The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction uncovers a rich archive of “white trash” fiction in the Caribbean and its surrounding regions. After the abolition of slavery, affluent white planters ……続きを見る

Was Vlad the Impaler the inspiration for Bram Stoker's novel Dracula? No! Did Stoker write about Transylvania from first-hand experience? No! Has the model for Count Dracula's castle been found? No!……続きを見る

Bram Stoker's Dracula, first published in 1897, continues to fascinate readers to this day. The novel's centenary was celebrated by an international assembly of scholars in Los Angeles. Elizabeth Mi……続きを見る

Dracula Unearthed takes the lid off Stoker's most famous novel. With the aid of 3,400 textual endnotes and annotations, new light is shed on its sources, characters and structure. Stoker never went ……続きを見る

The resonant and awesome figure of Count Dracula. his Transylvanian lair, and his powers of supernatural evil, have imprinted themselves on the popular imagination, largely through the medium of the……続きを見る

This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary res……続きを見る

The double, doppelgänger, is mostly understood as a peculiar figure that emerged in nineteenth-century Romantic and gothic literature. Far from being a merely esoteric entity, however, this book arg……続きを見る

Romancing Fascism argues that intellectual responsibility can only be safeguarded if criticism is mobilised both as a poetic and as a critically enlightened endeavour. In this analysis of allegory a……続きを見る

Mr. Darcy, da due secoli l'uomo dei sogni di milioni di donne. Quale donna non vorrebbe trovare (e magari sposare) un uomo come Mr. Darcy? Un uomo bello e ricco, maschio e nobilissimo? Il personaggi……続きを見る

Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV ……続きを見る

Research on the relationship between the apocalyptic tradition and the literary imagination has typically espoused a temporal approach which in one way or another revolves around the order of events……続きを見る

In "Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries," C. J. S. Thompson intricately weaves a narrative that explores the profound relationship between poisonous substances and the human psyche, revealing how th……続きを見る

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous sapient cre……続きを見る