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The most substantial exploration to date of gothic fiction in the international context Examining texts from across six continents, The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic considers how gothic imagines, colludes with or interrogates relationships and phenomena that are planetary in scale. Accordingly, the thirty-one chapters address gothic engagements with - among others - resource imperialism, (ongoing) colonial history, diasporic identity, buckling economic unions, the rise of the internet, enthnonationalism and entangled systems of gendered, racialised and ecocidal power. In this way, the collection moves decisively beyond the framework of globalisation to identify a range of new globalgothic approaches and modes, overall demonstrating that gothic is a key - though sometimes complicit - register for negotiating the challenges and histories of our uneven global present. Rebecca Duncan is Research Fellow at the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, where she co-ordinates the 'Aesthetics of Empire' Research Cluster.

The Smallpox Report explores the Romantic-era medical and literary narratives that made vaccination plausible, available, and desirable.

The second Annual of the International Heyer Society!COLLECTING IN ONE VOLUME: #7 - Helen#8 - The Masqueraders#9 - Pastel#10 - Beauvallet#11 - Barren Corn#12 - The Conqueror#13 - Footsteps in the Dark#14 - Devil's Cub# 15 - Why Shoot a Butler?#16 - The Convenient Marriage#17 - The Unfinished Clue#18 - Death in the StocksPlus the Weekly Post, Vol. II, with essays discussing everything from Heyer's houses to the the translated editions of her novels to Belinda's purple gown, and much, much more.Join Society Patronesses Rachel Hyland, Jennifer Kloester and Susannah Fullerton, along with some special guest contributors, in this joyous tribute to the incomparable Georgette Heyer.

A tender and unflinching debut poetry collection by a budding Australian poet. Worm Food and Bone Sand takes no prisoners and dissects all that is painful in protest of impermanence.

A study of the fiction of Charles Dickens that traces the intersections between nineteenth-century literature and Victorian psychology and theories of the mind.

Poe and Women presents essays by scholars who investigate the various ways in which women-Poe's female contemporaries, critics, writers, and artists, as well as women characters in Poe adaptations-have shaped Edgar Allan Poe's reputation and revised his depictions of gender.

'Darkly unsettling' Guardian'Intoxicating - dark, heady, lyrical' Daily Telegraph'Terrifying and inventive' ObserverIn a world devastated by antimicrobial resistance, two survivors are thrown into crisis when a woman washes ashore on the remote island where they live__________________________Years after complete antibiotic resistance has resulted in the loss of most human life on earth, Kit and Crevan eke out an existence on a remote island. Under a collapsing castle, they spend their days in an underground bunker packed with emergency stores, venturing out only at night. They are safe. One evening a woman washes ashore, nearly drowned. Crevan wants to keep her alive, but Kit isn't so sure. The new arrival will implode Kit and Crevan's world with dire and fatal consequences, churning up the waters of the past and unearthing secrets they have kept from each other and from themselves. Who is really in control - and what are they both capable of doing to protect their haven? Gripping, treacherous and visceral, Whether Violent or Natural is an unforgettably dark and strikingly original work by a major new talent.'Sly, sharp, and utterly captivating' Rory Power, New York Times-bestselling author of Wilder Girls'Hits you like a shot of the very good stuff ... Dark-hearted, complex, and accomplished' C. A. Fletcher, author of A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

The first critical study that theorises the Italian Gothic and examines its main forms and manifestations across arts, media, and disciplines

An all-consuming tale of psychological suspense with a spectacular twist from the internationally bestselling author Alice Feeney

In Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel, Adam Grener advances a new approach to evaluating realism in fiction by arguing that nineteenth-century literary realism shifted attention to the historical and social dimensions of probability in the period's literature. In an era in which probability was increasingly defined by statistical concepts of aggregation and abstraction, the realist writers discussed here turned to chance and improbability to address representational problems of contingency, difference, and scale. Contemporary thinking about probability came to recognize the variability and even randomness of the world while also discovering how patterns and order reemerge at scale. Reading chance as a tension between randomness and order, Grener shows how novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hardy resist the demands of probabilistic representation and develop strategies for capturing cultural particularity and historical transformation. These authors served their visions of realism by tactically embracing improbability in the form of coincidences, fatalism, supernaturalism, and luck. Understanding this strategy helps us to appreciate how realist novels work to historicize the social worlds and experiences they represent and asks us to rethink the very foundation of realism.

How did Mary Shelley's Frankenstein give rise to the iconic green monster everyone knows today? In 1823, only five years after publication, Shelley herself saw the Creature come to life on stage, and this performance shaped the story's future. Suddenly, thousands of people who had never read Shelley's novel were participating in its cultural animation. Similarly, early adaptations magnified the reception and renown of all manner of nineteenth-century literary creations, from Byron and Keats to Dickens and Tennyson and beyond. Yet, until now, adaptation has been seen as a largely modern phenomenon. In Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century, Lissette Lopez Szwydky convincingly historicizes the practice of adaptation, drawing on multiple disciplines to illustrate narrative mobility across time, culture, and geography. Case studies from stage plays, literature, painting, illustration, chapbooks, and toy theaters position adaptation as a central force in literary history that ensures continued cultural relevance, accessibility, and survival. The history of these forms helps to inform and put into context our contemporary obsessions with popular media. Finally, in upending a traditional understanding of canon by arguing that adaptation creates canon and not the other way around, Szwydky provides crucial bridges between nineteenth-century literary scholarship, adaptation studies, and media studies, thus identifying new stakes for all.

When this work was first prepared for publication in 1949 the Notebooks and Collected Letters were still in manuscript, and many of the printed works, if not unavailable, were scarce. The continuing publication of Coleridge's works has not lessened the demand for a general introduction to Coleridge's mind and its workings. Selections from works including The Friend, Essays on His Own Times, Aids to Reflection, the Statesman's Manual, Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, and Table Talk, and from other lesser known works are arranged by topic. The subjects – psychology, education, language, logic and philosophy, literary criticism, the arts, science, society, religion and his contemporaries – reflect the astonishing range of Coleridge's intellectual interests. The revised edition of this anthology is still the best introduction to the prose works of an inquiring spirit.There is a fine introductory essay, and each section has an introduction of its own. The annotation is apt, and the index efficient. The whole book, in short, has been ordered with the distinction which is characteristic of Professor Coburn.

A married woman hastily dashes off not telling anyone. Hitches a ride from Minnesota into the interior of Alaska to live her dreams of being a mountain woman.Falls in love with a mountain man. Then diagnosed with terminal cancer. Together they prepare for her death by planning her headstone, words to be read and her resting place.

"How the idea of monstrosity, as "other" in critical research, was central to nineteenth-century scientific understandings of "natural" or "normal" biology"--

Pre-University Paper from the year 2017 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 15 Punkte (1+), , language: English, abstract: In this essay, the author Jessica Santosa Hidajat discusses the Southern Gothic Literature, the genre which To Kill a Mockingbird was written in, its historical background and respectively the political and social circumstances that have influenced it. She has taken four books from the Southern Gothic Literature to present in this essay. She has chosen these books because each two of them represent two important subjects in the literature of the Southern States: A Streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner express the downfall of Southern nobility and the exclusion of their characters from society, Light in August , also by William Faulkner, expresses intimacy and homosexuality in the Southern States and Bastard out of Carolina from Dorothy Allison is at the same time a coming-of-age novel dealing with a childhood subjected to poverty, violence and sexual abuse. In the attachment that is lightened by some colorful photographs, the author explains the backgrounds for the titles of these books.

This book traces the ways Berlin has been narrated across three centuries by some 100 authors. It presents a composite landscape not only of the German capital, but of shifting subtexts in American society.

Les Illuminations sont le titre d'un recueil de poèmes en prose ou en vers libres composés par Arthur Rimbaud entre 1872 et 1875, et publié partiellement en 1886 puis, dans son intégralité, à titre posthume, en 1895. Ce texte demeura entre les mains de Charles de Sivry avant d'être publié.Le titre Les Illuminations évoque un rapprochement significatif et ambitieux, de la part de Rimbaud, avec d'autres fameux recueils antérieurs, représentatifs de la modernité poétique du xixe siècle et du romantisme : les Méditations poétiques (1820) d'Alphonse de Lamartine et Les Contemplations (1856) de Victor Hugo.Nul ne sait avec certitude quelle est la date exacte de composition de ces poèmes en prose finalement baptisés Illuminations : ont-ils été écrits avant, après, ou pendant Une saison en enfer ? L'ordre des cinquante-quatre poèmes en désordre n'est pas plus précis que la chronologie. Quelques-uns de ces textes ayant été recopiés par Germain Nouveau, la question de la transcription ou peut-être la coécriture de quelques « illuminations » se pose également. Enfin, le titre supposé du « recueil », si recueil il y a eu, demeure une énigme, puisque le mot « illuminations » n'est jamais apparu sous la plume de Rimbaud ; il ne fut suggéré que par Verlaine.On a longtemps cru que les poèmes en prose composant ce recueil avaient été écrits avant Une saison en enfer. Cette idée a été renforcée par le témoignage d'Isabelle Rimbaud qui voulait faire passer Une saison en enfer pour le testament littéraire d'un frère répudiant ses égarements de poète. Ainsi l'oeuvre se terminait sur Adieu, le dernier « chapitre » du livre.Mais depuis 1949 et la publication de l'ouvrage d'Henry de Bouillane de Lacoste (Rimbaud et le problème des Illuminations, au Mercure de France), il est établi que les copies des poèmes en prose contenus dans Les Illuminations sont postérieures à la Saison.

A look at occult American History by Saint GothicIncluding 5 stories on Gothic culture.