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'A grisly period detective story.' The Times London, 1850: The Dickensian streets grow darker by the day. Private investigator Charles Maddox is surprised when he is approached by Edward Tulkinghorn……続きを見る

This volume analyses the nature of the mime art of Deburau and of the pantomime performances of the Théâtre des Funambules in Paris in the context of Romantic art, literature and socio-political tho……続きを見る

This book focuses on the projection of the hero’s masculinity in a selection of post-millennial popular romance narratives and attempts to discover if, and to what extent, this projection reinforces……続きを見る

Neurasthenia, rail shock, hysteria. In Narrating Trauma, Gretchen Braun traces the nineteenth-century prehistory of those mental and physical responses that we now classify as post-traumatic stress ……続きを見る

Jane Eyre è un'orfanella che, affidata in custodia a una ricca zia che la odia, è costretta a sopportare la solitudine e la crudeltà dei cugini. La sua infanzia difficile rafforza in lei l'indipende……続きを見る

The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin is a contemplative exploration of heritage, memory, and the passage of time, crafted in a poetic style that blends vivid imagery with a reflective tone. Set aga……続きを見る

Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions is an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The “fantastical” in fantastical blackness is con……続きを見る

Fortsetzung von »Ungeteerte Straßen - Eine Kindheit in Frankreich« In lyrischer Prosa erzählt Scappini Szenen aus der frühen Jugend und Pubertät des jungen Franzosen Pascal. Ein Leben in den Anfänge……続きを見る

Hans Herbst ist ein großer Erzähler. Seine Geschichten nehmen den Leser mit auf eine Reise. Seine Beschreibungen sind so lebendig, dass man meint, den heißen Wüstenwind auf der Haut zu spüren. Beim ……続きを見る

Die Spurensuche nach seinem Vater wird für Edvard zur Suche nach dem eigenen Glück. Er begibt sich auf eine Reise hoch in den Norden Norwegens. Es ist die Reise seines Lebens. Nach dem Tod seiner Mu……続きを見る

Das Besondere an Max von der Grün ist, dass seine literarischen Texe Zeitdokumente und dennoch zeitlos sind. Seine pointierten Beschreibungen der Arbeitswelt und ihrer Unzulänglichkeiten haben ihn b……続きを見る

Margarete Gmeiner ist Witwe und siebzig Jahre alt, als sie sich die Frage stellt, warum die Liebe nur für junge Menschen Glück und Aufbruch bedeuten soll, denn zwischen ihr und dem ebenfalls seit Ja……続きを見る

Ein schillernder Reisebericht, ein spannendes Stück Autobiografie - geschrieben in einer zeitlosen Prosa. Drei Wochen lang war Max von der Grün 1974 auf Einladung der Goethe-Institute Izmir, Istanbu……続きを見る

In the twenty-first century, the romance genre has gained a growing academic response, including the creation of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Popular romance has l……続きを見る

This timely volume ventures into the subject of sadomasochism in varied aspects of medieval life. Saint’s Lives and mystical treatises provide evidence of failed sadism and empowering masochism. Lit……続きを見る

How the monsters of nineteenth-century literature and science came to define us. “Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” In We Are All Monst……続きを見る

This volume contains fifteen works by English novelist Sax Rohmer (Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward). Among the works are complete series of Dr. Fu Manchu, featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. an……続きを見る

‘Ethan Frome,’ a 1911 novel, is perhaps the best-known and most popular work of Edith Whartonーan American novelist, short story writer, and designer and is considered her masterpiece. Set against a……続きを見る

What did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron’s new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answersーsometimes accurate, sometimes notーwere tantalizingly at the ready in the Roman……続きを見る

Trilby by George Du Maurier Trilby is a novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time. Published serially in Harper's Monthly from January to August 1894, it was publishe……続きを見る

While much recent ecocriticism has questioned the value of nature as a concept, Thought's Wilderness insists that it is analytically and politically indispensable, and that romanticism shows us why.……続きを見る

Cercandocieli è una storia che è una vita. È una vita che è una storia. Un viaggio esistenziale tra follia, gioie, delusioni, amore e morte. Amiche, amici, nemici della narratrice-protagonista e per……続きを見る

In this revisionist account of romantic-era poetry and language philosophy, Tristram Wolff recovers vibrant ways of thinking language and nature together. Wolff argues that well-known writers includ……続きを見る

Das Glück der Familie Rougon von Emile Zola (französisch La Fortune des Rougon), Erstausgabe 1871, ist der erste Band von Émile Zolas monumentalem zwanzigbändigen Rougon-Macquart-Zyklus. Die Geschic……続きを見る

This is the annotated and improved version of the original book Jane Eyre-an Autobiography. We annotated it by adding a healthy and meaningful summary in red fonts. The summary consists of approxima……続きを見る

Book contains first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), representing the core thinking of Ralph Waldo Emerson. First Series Includes well-known E……続きを見る

Whether we are touched by the 2015 migrant crisis in the Mediterranean or the heated debates about the status of the (260+ million) displaced persons in our different societies, all of us have been ……続きを見る

The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romantic period to today. Lenora Hanson glimpses histories of subsistence (such as reprodu……続きを見る

Devotional Inspiration from Mary Lennox's Beautifully Mysterious Secret Garden The Secret Garden Devotional offers lovely inspiration that explores the themes of faith, family, contentment, wisdom, ……続きを見る

Examines the fascination with identity fraud in sensation fiction and Victorian culture more broadly. The first full-length study of identity fraud in literature, Personation Plots argues that conce……続きを見る