 | Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance in Britain, 1885-1925
Publication Date: December 6, 2011Today’s mass-market romances have their precursors in late Victorian popular novels written by and for women. In Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance Martin Hipsky scrutinizes some of the best-selling British fiction from the period 1885 to 1925, the era when romances, especially those by British women, were sold and read more widely than ever before or since. Recent scholarship has explored the desires and anxieties addressed by both “low modern” and “high modernist” British culture in the decades straddling th...
 |  | Twenty-first-century Gothic
Publication Date: October 1, 2010The essays in this volume reinterpret and contest the Gothic cultural inheritance, each from a specifically twenty-first century perspective. Most are based on papers delivered at a conference held, appropriately, in Horace Walpole's Gothic mansion at Strawberry Hill in West London, which is usually seen as the geographical origin of the first, but not the last, of the many Gothic revivals of the past 300 years. In a contemporary context, the Gothic sensibility could be seen as a mode particularly applicable to the frightening instability of the world in whic...
|  | Dear Gangster...: Advice for the Lonelyhearted from the Gangster of Love
Release Date: February 1, 1996He's the Ann Landers of anomie, the antidote for sniveling sensitivity, a caustic balm for our broken hearts--he's "The Gangster of Love." This collection of his columns features questions from anxious readers--with the Gangster's more or less helpful replies--which are loaded with quirky counsel on sticky problems and endless anecdotes of his misfit friends. ...
|  | Asian Gothic: Essays on Literature, Film and Anime
Publication Date: January 21, 2008| ISBN-10: 0786433353 | ISBN-13: 978-0786433353The essays in this collection acknowledge the rich Gothic tradition in Asian narratives that deal with themes of the fantastic, the macabre, and the spectral. Through close analyses of Asian works using the theoretical framework outlined by Gothic criticism, these essays seek to expand the notion of the Gothic to include several popular Asian works. Broadly divided into essays on postcolonial Asian Gothic, Asian-American Gothic, and the Gothic writings of specific Asian nations, this volume covers a wide var...
|  | From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology I (Vol 1)
Publication Date: April 3, 2004| ISBN-10: 0719066719 | ISBN-13: 978-0719066719| Edition: First Edition This is the first of two anthologies designed to explore the changes and transitions in European culture between 1780 and 1830. The collection of extracts in this anthology provide primary and secondary sources on the death of the Old Regime, the Napoleonic pheonomenon, slavery, religion and reform. Each selection is accompanied by a detailed introduction explaining the context and significance of the sources. Extracts in the anthology stimulate questions rather than provide reassuring ...
|  | The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in English Life and Literature (University of Wales Press - Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages)
Publication Date: June 28, 2001| Series: University of Wales Press - Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages The English think of Arthur as their own—stamped on the landscape in scores of place-names, echoed in the names of their princes even today. Yet if the English had anything to do with a historical Arthur, it was as his bitterest enemies and hi-jackers of the British heritage. This book, which brings together the work of leading international scholars, is the first comprehensive treatment of Arthurian literature in the English language to the end of the Middle Ages and trace...
|  | THE DANGEROUS LOVER: GOTHIC VILLAINS, BYRONISM, AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY SEDUCTION NARRATIVE
Publication Date: August 22, 2006The dangerous lover has haunted our culture for over two hundred years; English, American, and European literature is permeated with his erotic presence. The Dangerous Lover takes seriously the ubiquity of the brooding romantic hero—his dark past, his remorseful and rebellious exile from comfortable everyday living. Deborah Lutz traces the recent history of this figure, through the melancholy iconoclasm of the Romantics, the lost soul redeemed by love of the Brontës, and the tormented individualism of twentieth-century love narratives. Arguing for t...
|  | Byron's Romantic Celebrity: Industrial Culture and the Hermeneutic of Intimacy (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)
Release Date: October 2, 2007| ISBN-10: 1403999937 | ISBN-13: 978-1403999931| Edition: First Edition Byron's Romantic Celebrity offers a new history and theory of modern celebrity. It argues that celebrity is a cultural apparatus that emerged in response to the Romantic industrialization of print and culture and that Lord Byron should be understood as one of its earliest examples and most astute critics. Under that rubric, it investigates the often strained interactions of artistic endeavour and commercial enterprise, the material conditions of Byron's publications, and the place of cele...
|  | Orientalist
Publication Date: July 7, 2005The Orientalist is the extraordinary story of a Jewish man's passion for the Arab world as political extremism swept Europe. Part Quest for Corvo, part Seven Pillars of Wisdom, it unravels the mysterious life of Lev Nussimbaum, a man born on the border of Europe and Persia, just as Revolution began to redraw the map. To read this book is to wander into a fabulous and forgotten civilisation, buried for ever by the forces of Naziism and Bolshevism. Tom Reiss first came across Nussimbaum when he went to the ex-USSR to research Russia's oil reserves, and discovered ...
|  | Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism: A Study of Dostoevsky in Relation to Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol (Study in Comparative Literature)
Publication Date: January 1, 1965| Series: Study in Comparative Literature (Book 27) Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism is Donald Fanger's groundbreaking study of the art of Dostoevsky and the literary and historical context in which it was created. Through detailed analyses of the work of Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol, Fanger identifies romantic realism, the transformative fusion of two generic categories, as a powerful imaginary response to the great modern city. This fusion reaches its aesthetic and metaphysical climax in Dostoevsky, whose vision -- culminating in Crime and Punishment -- is see...
|  | Romantic Dharma: The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century Europe (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
Release Date: October 11, 2011| ISBN-10: 0230105459 | ISBN-13: 978-0230105454Romantic Dharma charts the emergence of Buddhism into European consciousness during the nineteenth century. Mark S. Lussier probes the shared ethical and intellectual commitments embedded in Buddhist and Romantic thought, and proposes potential ways by which those insights translate into contemporary critical and pedagogical practices. Mapping the movement of European colonial institutions and individuals across the Himalayan regions of India, Nepal, and Tibet and the reverse flow of textual materials to Europe,...
|  | The Language of Love
Publication Date: May 1999In this exquisite collection, contemporary and classical authors share their thoughts, feelings, and dreams about that ageless, universal emotion called... love. For the special person who receives it, this beautiful volume is certain to make an enduring impression.The handmade paper chose for the cover of this book is specially crafted from mulberry trees, with real flower petals, grasses, leaves, and bark embedded in the paper. Using age-old techniques, this paper is made without cutting down trees or harming the natural environment. ...
|  | Above All, Don't Look Back (CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature translated from the French)
Publication Date: August 6, 2009| ISBN-10: 0813928443 | ISBN-13: 978-0813928449 Above All, Don't Look Back follows the path of a young woman—Amina—as she makes her way through a city, a life, and a sense of self that have been ravaged by an earthquake. In this powerful novel, inspired by a devastating earthquake in northern Algeria in 2003, the acclaimed Algerian writer Maïssa Bey skillfully interweaves descriptions of the earthquake with descriptions of Amina's family, culture, and country and her place within them. She leaves the reader to wonder whether Amina is fle...
|  | What Jane Austen Taught Me About Love and Romance
Publication Date: January 1, 2007Debra White Smith, bestselling author of the Jane AustenSeries (more than 89,000 copies sold) explores the lessons about love andromance revealed through Austen’s beloved stories—Pride and Prejudice, Emma,Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility, and others.Alongside wisdom from 1 Corinthians, Debra reveals lovetruths reflected in the lives of couples and characters from Austen’s created worlds.George and Emma (Emma)—Love is patientMr. Darcy and Elizabeth (Pride and Prejudice)—Love is not proudColonel Brandon and Marianne (Sens...
|  | King Arthur: Hero and Legend
Publication Date: August 28, 2004Who was the real Arthur? Why were his knights so famous? Was he buried at Glastonbury? Richard Barber takes the story from the anonymous 8th century chronicler who first listed his battles to the novelists of the 20th century. A clear and readable account of the development of the stories about Arthur and his court from the earliest times to the present day. ...
|  | Only You: Interrupted Melody/Reluctant Valentine/Castaways/Masquerade (Inspirational Valentine Romance Collection)
Publication Date: January 1, 1998Love is in the air in each of the four love stories in this contemporary collection: Reluctant Valentine, by Loree Lough; Masquerade, by Kathleen Yapp; Interrupted Melody, by Sally Laity; and Castaways, by Debra White Smith....
| | Late Latin and Early Romance in Spain and Carolingian France. (ARCA, Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 8)
Publication Date: December 15, 1982| ISBN-10: 090520512X | ISBN-13: 978-0905205120Late Latin and Early Romance presents a theory of the relationship between Latin and Romance during the period 400-1250 AD. The central hypothesis is that what we now call 'Medieval Latin' was invented around 800 AD when Carolingian scholars standardized the pronunciation of liturgical texts, and that otherwise what was spoken was simply the local variety of Old French, Old Spanish, etc. Thus, the view generally held before the publication of this work, that 'Latin' and 'Romance' existed alongside each othe...
|  | True and False Romances (Masks)
Publication Date: September 1, 1994| Series: Masks In this scintillating collection of stories Puerto Rican writer Ana Lydia Vega exposes machismo, Caribbean style. With deft pastiches of genre fiction - the thriller, the historical romance, the bodice ripper - she turns the traditions of Latin American fiction on their heads and produces a work that critically reflects the influence of US culture. Though her stories appear in many anthologies, this is the first collection of Ana Lydia Vega's work to be published in English. It showcases one of the provocative 'post-feminist' voices of the c...
|  | Teaching and Writing Popular Fiction: Horror, Adventure, Mystery and Romance in the American Classroom
Publication Date: September 1, 2000| ISBN-10: 0915924048 | ISBN-13: 978-0915924042Genre fiction is finally given its due, with 3 to 5 essays for each genre style, filled with exercises and student samples. This fun loving T&W classic was designed to help teachers expand their writing curricula with popular fiction genres. A fascinating guide, Teaching and Writing Popular Fiction provides ways to help students write, using the literature they already know and love. ...
|  | Romantic Poetry (Blackwell Essential Literature)
Publication Date: September 23, 2002| ISBN-10: 0631229744 | ISBN-13: 978-0631229742| Edition: 1 The six great Romantic poets represented in this concise collection – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – are those considered essential reading for anyone with an interest in the verse of the period.An essential selection of poetry by the six great Romantic poets. Ideal for general readers or for students taking short courses in Romanticism. Includes the whole of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Gives readers a concise overview of Romantic poetry. ...
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