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The ghost story, 1840-1920: a cultural history
Hardback. English.
Published
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010
'The Ghost Story 1840-1920' examines the British ghost story within the political contexts of the long 19th century. By relating the ghost story to economic...
A companion to modern British and Irish drama, 1880-2005
Paperback. English.
Published
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
This companion analyses a wide range of performance traditions, and explores the political, cultural, economic and institutional frameworks that readers...
The gothic in children's literature: haunting the borders
Paperback. English.
Published
New York; London: Routledge, 2009
From creepy picture books to Harry Potter to Lemony Snicket, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. This collection examines...
Balladeering, minstrelsy, and the making of British romantic poetry
Paperback. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
This volume shows how romantic poetry was powerfully shaped by literary and cultural researches into oral, vernacular poetries in the late 18th century...
Literary ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism: the haunting interval
Hardback. English.
Published
New York; London: Routledge, 2012
This text resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo...
Antifeminism and the Victorian novel: rereading nineteenth-century women writers
Hardback. English.
Published
Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria, c2009
The passage of literature: genealogies of modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya
Hardback. English.
Published
New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011
Through a set of comparative studies of the fiction of Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 'The Passage of Literature' explains the interrelation...
Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century
Hardback. English.
Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
This volume explores how Gothic romances engaged with late Victorian cognitive science. It explains why popular novels like 'Dracula' and 'Jekyll and...
British literature and print culture
Hardback. English.
Published
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013
The essays collected here offer examinations of bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of texts in a variety of engraved media...
Concise companion to realism
Paperback. English.
Published
Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
'Concise Companion to Realism' offers a scholarly yet accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. It provides the historical...
