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“alan g smith”

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  • Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition

    by Dr. Alan G. Smith, Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar, Dr. John Marland ...
    Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of 'Hardyan Folk Horror'. Hardy's novels and his short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was, for Hardy the recent past. Hardy's Wessex plays out tensions between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian, the past and the ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • A Comparative Introduction to Political Science

    Contention and Cooperation

    by Alan G. Smith ...
    When are legislators inclined to cast votes in cooperation with their parties, and when do they go their own way? When and why do nations contend with each other, and when are they more likely to cooperate? Thematically arranged around the interplay of contention and cooperation, A Comparative Introduction to Political Science encourages students to explore causal factors and consequences related ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

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  • The Secret Life of Plays

    by Steve Waters ...
    A guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters.Drawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes the reader through the key elements of dramatic writing – scenes, acts, space, time, characters, language and images – to show how a play is more than the sum of its parts, with as much inner ... Read more

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  • Art Objects

    Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

    by Jeanette Winterson ...
    In ten interlocking essays, the acclaimed author of Written on the Body and Art & Lies reveals art as an active force in the world--neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting those who don't. Original, personal, and provocative, these essays are not so much a point of view as they are a way of life, revealing "a brilliant and deeply feeling artist at work" (San ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $11.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Gothic

    Edited by Catherine Spooner, Emma McEvoy ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential guide explores the world of Gothic in all its myriad forms throughout the mid-eighteenth Century to the internet age.The Routledge Companion to Gothic includes discussion on:the history of Gothicgothic throughout the English-speaking world i.e. London and USA as well as the ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley

    Edited by Esther Schor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of bracing intelligence and wide cultural sweep. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley helps readers to assess for themselves her remarkable body of work. ... Read more

    Was $35.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD

  • The Literature of Terror: Volume 2

    The Modern Gothic

    by David Punter ...
    The Literature of Terror: the Modern Gothic is the second volume in David Punter's impressive survey of gothic writing covering over two centuries. This long awaited second edition has been expanded to take into account the latest critical research, and is now published in two volumes. Volume One covers the period from 1765 to the Edwardian age while Volume Two discusses modern gothic, starting ... Read more

    $148.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein

    Edited by Andrew Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein consists of sixteen original essays on Mary Shelley's novel by leading scholars, providing an invaluable introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts. Theoretically informed but accessibly written, this volume relates Frankenstein to various social, literary, scientific and historical contexts, and outlines how critical theories such as ... Read more

    Was $35.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley

    by Madeleine Callaghan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley takes stock of current developments in the study of a major Romantic poet and prose-writer, and seeks to advance Shelley studies in new directions. It consists of forty-two chapters written by an international cast of established and emerging scholar-critics. This Handbook is divided into five thematic sections: Biography and Relationships; Prose; Poetry ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Thomas Hardy in Context

    Edited by Phillip Mallett ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    This collection covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works and their social and intellectual contexts, providing a comprehensive introduction to Hardy's life and times. Featuring short, lively contributions from forty-four international scholars, the volume explores the processes by which Hardy the man became Hardy the published writer; the changing critical responses to his work; his response to ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Thomas Hardy

    The World of His Novels

    by J. B. Bullen ...
    A study of the fictious world in Hardy's novels in relation to real places and Hardy's real-life experiences.Thomas Hardy's Wessex is one of the great literary evocations of place, populated with colourful and dramatic characters. As lovers of his novels and poetry know, this 'partly real, partly dream-country' was firmly rooted in the Dorset into which he had been born.J. B. Bullen explores the ... Read more

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  • A New Companion to The Gothic

    Edited by David Punter ...
    Series Book 179 - Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade.Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debatesOffers comprehensive coverage of ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD