 | The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Frankenstein (Bedside Bathtub & Armchair Companions)
Publication Date: May 1, 2007| Series: Bedside Bathtub & Armchair Companions <div><br/><div>A bolt-necked monster opens his eyes, lifts himself from his laboratory table, then lurches and stumbles toward his creator. Do we know this image because we are movie-watchers? When we imagine Frankenstein's monster, do we draw upon Mary Shelley's description? Or Boris Karloff's iconic look from the 1931 film by James Whale? <br/><br/>Whether as cliche or icon, the monster clearly not only escaped from Victor Frankenstein's laborat...
 |  | Thong on Fire: An Urban Erotic Tale
Publication Date: March 6, 2007I was just a lost little girl forced to make it in a grown woman's world. A child turned out by the rulers of the game. When you get thrown into a snakepit you better learn how to wiggle! It's all about survival, baby. And not only did I learn the code of the streets, I made my own damn rules and got paid in the process. So listen close, but watch your pockets. I'm a Harlem girl. A scandalous chick. A ruthless mama. Me and this city are just alike. Grimy. And we never, ever sleep...It's a hard knock life for Saucy Sarita Robinson and the rules of the game are...
|  | Juanita : A Romance of Real Life in Cuba Fifty Years Ago
Publication Date: July 22, 2000| Series: New World Studies Originally published in 1887 and never before reprinted, Juanita is a historical romance based on Mary Peabody Mann's experience of living on a Cuban slaveholder's plantation from 1833 to 1835. The novel centers on the extended visit of helen Wentworth, a New England teacher, to a childhood friend's plantation, where she witnesses African slaves' arrivals and their sale and gross mistreatment at the hands of coffee and sugar planters. Juanita is a beautiful mulatta slave with whom the plantation owner's son falls in love. Extending t...
|  | Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern: The Poetics of Modernity (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Publication Date: August 18, 2011| Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (Book 79) This 2009 reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David Simpson centres on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the modern world at the turn of the century: mass warfare; the increased scope of machine-driven labour and urbanisation; and the expanding power of commodity form in rendering economic and social exchange more and more abstract, more and more distant...
|  | The Legend of Arthur in British and American Literature (Twayne's English Authors Series)
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|  | Carlos Fuentes' the Death of Artemio Cruz (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
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|  | Women Writing about Money: Women's Fiction in England, 1790-1820 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Publication Date: February 24, 1995| Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (Book 9) This study addresses a paradox in the lives of women in Jane Austen's time who had no legal access to money yet were held responsible for domestic expenditure. The book translates the fictional money of the novels of Jane Austen's day into the power of contemporary spendable incomes, and from the perspective of what the British pound could buy at the market, the economic lives of women in the novels emerge as part of a general picture of women's economic disability. Through the work of writers such as Aust...
|  | Cannibalizing The Colony (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures)
Publication Date: April 1, 2009| Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures (Book 45) The years 1992 and 2000 marked the 500-year anniversary of the arrival of the Spanish and the Portuguese in America and prompted an explosion of rewritings and cinematic renditions of texts and figures from colonial Latin America. Cannibalizing the Colony analyzes a crucial way that Latin American historical films have grappled with the legacy of colonialism. It studies how and why filmmakers in Brazil and Mexico the countries that have produced most films about the colonial period in Latin America appro...
|  | Al Sur De La Frontera, Al Oeste Del Sol / South of the Border, West of the Sun (Andanzas / Adventures) (Spanish Edition)
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|  | Romantic Narrative: Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft
Publication Date: November 5, 2010| ISBN-10: 0801897211 | ISBN-13: 978-0801897214| Edition: 1 Often identified with its lyric poetry, Romanticism has come to be dismissed by historicists as an ineffectual idealism. By focusing on Romantic narrative, noted humanist Tilottama Rajan takes issue with this identification, as well as with the equation of narrative itself with the governmental apparatus of the Novel. Exploring the role of narrativity in the works of Romantic writers, Rajan also reflects on larger disciplinary issues such as the role of poetry versus prose in an emergent moderni...
|  | Cup Of Love: A Novel
Publication Date: February 6, 2001White's debut Fed Up With the Fanny brought us Kahlil, the BMW (Black Man Working)- a man who must reckon with the women in his life. White reveals that he wrote the novel, which offers a rare view of contemporary relationships from the male perspective, because "it's time to allow males, especially black males, to let the world know we're not all dogs". Cup of Love introduces Vance, a young man who starts out a dog, but finally reforms- only to find out that true love doesn't always run smoothly. Mix in a surprise inheritance, a political campaign, and a sh...
|  | The Way of All Flesh: The Romance of Ruins
Publication Date: October 25, 2000A wonderfully witty, erudite, and insightful book about the way "things fall apart" -- about the inevitable ruin of everything from bodies and works of art to ideals and whole societies In The Way of All Flesh Midas Dekkers argues that things are at their most beautiful when they decay, provided they are given the chance. Old buildings are usually pulled down or restored. Aging people desperately try to act and look young, becuase novelty, youth and beauty are equated in our minds with what is desirable. Only mankind is bothered by the realization that "life...
|  | Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Publication Date: November 30, 1987Sartre's powerful political passions were united to a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists, as well as the philosophers, of our time. This study analyses and evaluates the different strands of Sartre's rich and complex work. Combining the objectivity of the scholar with a profound interest in contemporary problems, Iris Murdoch discusses the tradition of philosophical, political and aesthetic thought that gives historical authenticity to Satre's achievement, while showing the ambiguities and dangers inherent in his position. SAT...
|  | Charles Robert Maturin and the Haunting of Irish Romantic Fiction
Release Date: December 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0719085322 | ISBN-13: 978-0719085321A self-described “disappointed author,” Charles Robert Maturin (1780-1824) has been largely relegated to the margins of literary history since his death in 1824. Yet, as this study demonstrates, he exerted a fundamental influence on the development of Irish fiction in the early nineteenth century. In particular, his novels dramatically underscore the continuing presence and deployment of the Gothic mode in Romantic Ireland – an influence now frequently overlooked in critical attention to the n...
|  | Edgar Allan Poe: Beyond Gothicism
Publication Date: August 5, 2011Most frequently regarded as a writer of the supernatural, Poe was actually among the most versatile of American authors, writing social satire, comic hoaxes, mystery stories, science fiction, prose poems, literary criticism and theory, and even a play. As a journalist and editor, Poe was closely in touch with the social, political, and cultural trends of nineteenth-century America. Recent scholarship has linked Poe's imaginative writings to the historical realities of nineteenth-century America, including to science and technology, wars and politics, the cult ...
|  | Gothic Shakespeares (Accents on Shakespeare)
Publication Date: January 17, 2009| ISBN-10: 0415420679 | ISBN-13: 978-0415420679Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late eighteenth century onwards. Shakespeare’s plays are full of ghosts, suspense, fear-inducing moments and cultural anxieties which many writers in the Gothic mode have since emulated, adapted and appropriated. The contributors to this volume consider:Shakespeare’s relationship with popular Gothic fiction of the eighteenth century how, without Shakespeare as a point...
|  | Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1820
Publication Date: July 16, 2010 Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780–1820 by Diane Long Hoeveler provides the first comprehensive study of what are called “collateral gothic” genres—operas, ballads, chapbooks, dramas, and melodramas—that emerged out of the gothic novel tradition founded by Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, and Ann Radcliffe. The role of religion and its more popular manifestations, superstition and magic, in the daily lives of Western Europeans were effectively undercut by the forces of secularization that wer...
|  | Dramatis Personae, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, Strafford, Etc
Publication Date: February 28, 2010| ISBN-10: 1146141416 | ISBN-13: 978-1146141413This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing...
|  | Shakespeare'S Comedies: From Roman Farce to Romantic Mystery
Publication Date: July 1, 1994Demonstrates the evolution of Shakespeare's art, and similarities of dramatic theme and artistic practice that connect Shakespeare's earliest romantic comedies to his dark comedies and his late romances. New light is shed on such issues as the "unsatisfactory" endings of many of the comedies, the troubling fates of "scapegoat" figures like Shylock and Malvolio, and elements of sadness in these plays. ...
|  | Animality in British Romanticism: The Aesthetics of Species (Routledge Studies in Romanticism)
Publication Date: April 25, 2012| ISBN-10: 0415507308 | ISBN-13: 978-0415507301The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism. The book’s novel approach focuses on the role of aesthetic taste in the Romantic understanding of the animal. Concentrating on the discourses of the sublime, the beautiful, and the ugly, Heymans argues that the Romantics’ aesthetic views of animality i...
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