The first vampire short story and novella, which came before Dracula, together in one Penguin Classics hardcover, a Penguin Speculative Fiction Special, with a foreword by #1 New York Times-bestselling author V. E. Schwab In the summer of 1816, a gr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474432474)
Comprehensively surveys the vampire as a cultural phenomenon. The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion examines the recurrent figure of the vampire from its folkloric origins, through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic liter...Loe edasi...
This is an open access book.The 4th International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2023) will be held on May 19–21, 2023 in Hangzhou, China. Culture includes language, which is a special cultural phenom...Loe edasi...
An engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before....Loe edasi...
What is it about Middle-Earth and its inhabitants that has captured the imagination of millions of people around the world? And why does Tolkiens visionary creation continue to fascinate and inspire us eighty-five years after its first publication?...Loe edasi...
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An engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before....Loe edasi...
An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori&;s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom&;s detailed n...Loe edasi...
By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300232233)
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An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Mar-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198814047)
Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written. It tells the dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs a...Loe edasi...
Known the world over as a symbol of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack is an intricate construction based on the crosses of St, George, St, Andrew and St, Patrick. Nick Groom traces its long and fascinating past, from the development of the Roya...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jul-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198795155)
In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nat...Loe edasi...
Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villainy will further his own ends. His menacing presenc...Loe edasi...
He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror no...Loe edasi...
Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated...Loe edasi...
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For millennia, the passing seasons and their rhythms have marked our progress through the year. But what do they mean to us now that we lead increasingly atomized and urban lives and our weather becomes ever more unpredictable or extreme? Will it mat...Loe edasi...
There are many interpretations of the word Gothic. Nick Groom explores the rich history and chronology of the term, bringing together various underlying and disparate elements to clarify its meaning. By examining its history, he argues that we can...Loe edasi...
