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Eighteen-year-old Fenella is a mischievous as her freckled elfin beauty and feline green eyes suggest – but beneath that puckish charm she hides her ardent desire to do all in her power to make her ……続きを見る

Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making Wharton the first wo……続きを見る

Ce livre numérique présente Tous les Contes et Nouvelles de Maupassant (plus de 320 Contes) avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Guy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893) a marqué la littératur……続きを見る

One of English literature's classic masterpiecesーa gripping novel of love, propriety, and tragedy. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Emily Brontë's on……続きを見る

Valperga - Mary Shelley - Valperga: or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca is an 1823 historical novel by the Romantic novelist Mary Shelley, set amongst the wars of the Guelphs ……続きを見る

Doll's House a play Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. A Doll's House richly displays the genius with which Henrik Ibsen pioneered modern……続きを見る

The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck - Mary Shelley - The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: A Romance is an 1830 historical novel by Mary Shelley about the life of Perkin Warbeck. The book takes a Yorkist point……続きを見る

An exploration of Stoicism’s central role in British and American writing of the Romantic period Stoic philosophers and Romantic writers might seem to have nothing in common: the ancient Stoics cham……続きを見る

This book explores the many ways Gothic literature and media have informed videogame design. Through a series of detailed case studies, Videogames and the Gothic illustrates the extent to which part……続きを見る

'Had me right from the first line!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Totally Gripping!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Loved it' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1963. When Eleanor meets famous young poet, Lyndon Chance, he offers a way to flee her abusive father. In return,……続きを見る

Ayesha, the Return of She H. Rider Haggard - Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic-fantasy novel by English Victorian author H. Rider Haggard, published in 1905, as a sequel to She. Chronologically,……続きを見る

Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction explores romance novels from a theological perspective and suggests a new definition of the romance novel to complement other definitions which focus on……続きを見る

Die Maske des roten Todes Edgar Allan Poe - Ungeachtet der Tatsache, dass eine Krankheit die Hälfte der Untertanen dahinrafft, gibt Prinz Prospero, der sich in eine von ihm entworfene Abtei zurückge……続きを見る

This book brings together an analysis of the theoretical connection of genre, reception, and frame theory and a practical demonstration thereof, using a set of parodies of the first wave of the Goth……続きを見る

The following essays (written between 2010 and 2018) all began as blog posts documenting observations made whilst working in the virtual world Second Life. In the shift from social interaction in th……続きを見る

Charles E. Robinson, Professor Emeritus of English at The University of Delaware, definitively transformed study of the novel Frankenstein with his foundational volume The Frankenstein Notebooks and……続きを見る

Carmilla Sheridan Le Fanu - The gothic story is narrated by a young woman Laura preyed upon by a female vampire named Carmilla, later revealed to be Mircalla, Countess Karnstein. Laura lives in a pi……続きを見る

Extrait : "L'homme, quel qu'il soit, est une créature complexe. Émile Zola a défini l'art : la nature vue à travers un tempérament, et voici la nature infinie dans sa substantialité et indéfinie dan……続きを見る

Thomas De Quincey: The Prose of Vision is the first full-length critical study of De Quincey's imaginative writings. Considering these writings as a 'prose of vision' transcending their origins in m……続きを見る

Lynne Tatlock examines the transmission, diffusion, and literary survival of Jane Eyre in the German-speaking territories and the significance and effects thereof, 1848-1918. Engaging with scholarsh……続きを見る

Great writers of the past whose works we still read and love will be read forever. They will survive the test of time. We remember authors of true genius because their writings are simply the best. ……続きを見る

An Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. Three of his……続きを見る

An Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. Three of his……続きを見る

Montague Rhodes James authored some of the most highly regarded ghost stories of all timeーclassics such as “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” that have been adapted many times over for rad……続きを見る

Gothic Mash-Ups explores the role of intertextuality in Gothic storytelling through the analysis of texts from diverse periods and media. Drawing on recent scholarship on Gothic remix and adaptation……続きを見る

Neo-Gothic Narratives defines and theorises what, exactly, qualifies as such a text, what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times, whether nostalgia plays a role and whether……続きを見る

Recent years have seen the strong development of Neo-Victorian studies, including its theorisation by such scholars as Cora Kaplan, Sally Shuttleworth, Ann Heilmann, Christian Gutleben, Marie-Louise……続きを見る

Recent years have seen the strong development of Neo-Victorian studies, including its theorisation by such scholars as Cora Kaplan, Sally Shuttleworth, Ann Heilmann, Christian Gutleben, Marie-Louise……続きを見る

When Vicar Flemming arrives with his wife, Eva, to take up his post in the Victorian village of Braxton in northern England, his handsome figure sets the ladies's hearts aflutter, including that of ……続きを見る

The hardness of stone, the pliancy of wood, the fluidity of palm oil, the crystalline nature of salt, and the vegetable qualities of moss – each describes a way of being in and understanding the wor……続きを見る