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  • Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020

    by Jimmy Packham ...
    Series series Elements in the Gothic
    Littoral zones such as haunted shorelines, oppressively expansive beaches, and the crumbling edgelands around coastal cliffs have been an indelible feature of the Gothic literary tradition since the eighteenth century. They are frequently portrayed as strange, interstitial realms, sites of epistemic and existential precarity, of wreckage and uncanny returns, poised between the homely and unhomely, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Gothic Utterance

    Voice, Speech and Death in the American Gothic

    by Jimmy Packham ...
    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    The Gothic has always been interested in strange utterances and unsettling voices – from half-heard ghostly murmurings and the admonitions of the dead, to the terrible cries of the monstrous nonhuman. Gothic Utterance is the first book-length study of the role played by such voices in the Gothic tradition, exploring their prominence and importance in the American literature produced between the ... Read more

    $36.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Future Folk Horror

    Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures

    by M. Keith Booker, Vicky Brewster, Garret L. Castleberry, Lauryn E. Collins, Stephanie Ellis, Tracy Fahey, Gemma Files, Phil Fitzsimmons, Sandra García Gutiérrez, Danielle Garcia-Karr, Kit Hawkins, Howard David Ingham, Paul A. J. Lewis, Kingsley Marshall, Conner McAleese, Jimmy Packham, James Rose, Brandon R. Grafius, Stephen Butler, Dr Reece Goodall, David Norris ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as The Ritual (2011), The Witch (2015), and Candyman (2021). Countering traditional views of the genre as depictions of the monstrous, rural, and pagan past trying to consume the present, the contributors to this collection posit folk horror as being ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

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    by David Gange ...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction

    Edited by Jerrold E. Hogle ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • A Writer's House in Wales

    by Jan Morris ...
    Series series Directions
    Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Morris's home between the sea and mountains of the remote northwest corner of Wales, is the 18th-century stable block of her former family house nearby. Surrounding it are the fields and outbuildings, the mud, sheep, and ... Read more

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  • Mary Shelley

    Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters

    by Anne K. Mellor ...
    An innovative, beautifully written analysis of Mary Shelley's life and works which draws on unpublished archival material as well as Frankenstein and examines her relationship with her husband and other key personalities. ... Read more

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  • A Book of Migrations

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    A rambling philosophical work of travel writing with descriptive musings on Irish history and heritage from the award-winning author of Men Explain Things to MeIn this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Managing Monsters

    by Marina Warner ...
    In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC. In a series of six lectures, she takes areas of contemporary concern and relates them to stories from mythology and fairy tale which continue to grip the modern imagination.She analyses the fury about single mothers and the anxiety about masculinity in the light of ideals about male heroism and control; the current ... Read more

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  • The Dialectic of Freedom

    by Maxine Greene ...
    Series series John Dewey Lecture Series
    Special 2018 EditionFrom the new Introduction by Michelle Fine**,** Graduate Center, CUNY :"Why now, you may ask, should I return to a book written in 1988? Because, in Maxine's words: 'When freedom is the question, it is always time to begin.'"In The Dialectic of Freedom, Maxine Greene argues that freedom must be achieved through continuing resistance to the forces that limit, condition, d... ... Read more

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  • A Life with Mary Shelley

    by Barbara Johnson ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson's lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of "women's studies," one of whose commitments was the rediscovery and analysis of works by women writers previously ... Read more

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