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Antoinette de Mirecourt is a Canadian classic, first published in 1864. Its author, Rosanna Leprohon (1829-1879) was a Montrealer who married a French Canadian. Most of her fiction deals with the relationships between English and French Canadians in 19th-century Canada. This scholarly edition includes an introduction by a Canadian specialist as well as a large number of footnotes.

A comprehensive study of the vampire in nineteenth-century literature. The nineteenth-century vampire has been inadequately studied until now, being usually investigated as a precursor to twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction. On the contrary, this book studies the vampire of the nineteenth century free of any reference to later developments, exploring instead key topics such as the origins of the vampire in Icelandic and other medieval European texts; issues of gender and sex; and, because the vampire is almost always treated solely as egotistical, maniacal, and animalistic, any instances of sympathy and mercy shown by nineteenth-century vampires. By looking at earlier cultural roots of the fictional monster, this book offers a fresh understanding of how, why, and where the myth of the vampire came into being.

In its entirety, this volume endeavors to examine how 21st-century media presents and contends with the body and mind of the monster. What do monsters reveal about us as a cultural community?

Navigating through classical Chinese fiction, Shakespearean characters, the arts, consumer society, psychoanalysis, evolutionary theories, interactions with computers at work, toy play, or law courts, this book provides a better understanding of the concept of childlikeness and highlights its continuing negotiation given its capacity to symbolize the character of our societies, notably our roles and degree of freedom within these roles.

A postcolonial study of racism in Gothic narratives. Gothic is a culture of alterity: it explores the Other and it posits itself as an Other. It found its roots in the concerted efforts of eighteenth-century authors who longed for the simple and exciting plotlines of medieval romances. At the same time, they were careful to populate other countries and/or other eras with ghosts, vampires, and monstrous villains. More recently, Gothic studies have flourished alongside a plethora of Gothic fiction, movies, and TV shows. These new works employ the genre's conventional themes and cast of characters while adding new features for new audiences. The perception of the Other has changed while a predilection for othering has endured. This collection of essays analyzes the various manifestations of racism in Gothic narratives: literature, film, TV, and architecture. Essays range from traditional topics and interpretations of Gothic as a vehicle for racism to Gothic as a subversion and resistance to white, heteronormative privilege.

A revolutionary anthology of Canadian short fiction. The first anthology of its kind, A Dark Conspiracy and Other nineteenth-Century Canadian Short Stories in English collects the best stories written by Canadians. Among the authors in the collection, one can find May Agnes Fleming, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Susanna Moodie, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Stephen Leacock.