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Book Albert of Werdendorff  Or  the Midnight Embrace  a Romance from the German  To which are Added  The Danger of Pleasures  and The Shower

Download or read book Albert of Werdendorff Or the Midnight Embrace a Romance from the German To which are Added The Danger of Pleasures and The Shower written by Sarah Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Popular Literature in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain

Download or read book Popular Literature in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain written by University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Library and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Small Books for the Common Man

Download or read book Small Books for the Common Man written by John Meriton and published by Oak Knoll Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Analytical bibliography of the National Art Library's collection of literary ephemera of the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Nearly 800 titles described in detail, including histories, tales, verse collections, primers, alphabets, and allowing accurate identification and verification with other collections. Includes reproduced illustrations from all books described"--Provided by publisher.

Book The History of Gothic Publishing  1800 1835

Download or read book The History of Gothic Publishing 1800 1835 written by F. Potter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To better understand and contextualise the twilight of the Gothic genre during the 1920s and 1830s, The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade examines the disreputable aspects of the Gothic trade from its horrid bluebooks to the desperate hack writers who created the short tales of terror. From the Gothic publishers to the circulating libraries, this study explores the conflict between the canon and the twilight, and between the disreputable and the moral.

Book The Gothic in Children s Literature

Download or read book The Gothic in Children s Literature written by Anna Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. The last two decades have seen an enormous growth in the critical study of two very different genres, the Gothic and children’s literature. The Gothic, concerned with the perverse and the forbidden, with adult sexuality and religious or metaphysical doubts and heresies, seems to represent everything that children’s literature, as a genre, was designed to keep out. Indeed, this does seem to be very much the way that children’s literature was marketed in the late eighteenth century, at exactly the same time that the Gothic was really taking off, written by the same women novelists who were responsible for the promotion of a safe and segregated children’s literature. This collection examines the early intersection of the Gothic and children’s literature and the contemporary manifestations of the gothic impulse, revealing that Gothic elements can, in fact, be traced in children’s literature for as long as children have been reading.

Book Literary Mushrooms

Download or read book Literary Mushrooms written by Franz J. Potter and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together some of the most sensational, horrific, and innovative chapbooks of the early 19th century. The literary mushrooms of the Gothic genre, these tales represent the fetishization of the formulaic.

Book Love  Mystery and Misery

Download or read book Love Mystery and Misery written by Coral Ann Howells and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current Gothic revival in literature and film encourages us to look again to the earliest Gothic novels written beween 1790 and 1820, when Gothic was the most popular kind of fiction in England. Dr. Howells proposes a radical reassessment of these novels to emphasize their importance as experiments in imaginative writing. Her object, the study of feeling, is central to Gothic, for its spell consists in the feelings it arouses and exercises. As pseudo-historical fantasy, Gothic fiction embodies contemporary neuroses, especially sexual fears and repressions, which run right through it and are basic to its conventions. This study traces the effort to articulate these disconcerting emotions in symbol, incident, landscape and architecture. The chronological design suggests developments in Gothic, from the initial explorations of Mrs Radcliffe and M.G. Lewis, through the Minerva Press novelists and Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey", to new directions taken by C.R. Maturin in "Melmoth the Wanderer" and later by Charlotte Bronte whose "Jane Eyre", arguably the finest of Gothic novels, places the earlier experiments in perspective.

Book The Monster Made by Man

Download or read book The Monster Made by Man written by Franz J. Potter and published by Zittaw Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of nine rare Gothic tales has been assembled to represent a wide range of adaptations, redactions, plagiarisms and condensations of Gothic motifs and characterisations in the 1820s and 1830s. From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer, The Monster Made By Man illustrates the evolution of the Gothic genre and revisits what is most horrifying- the familiar.

Book The First Gothics

Download or read book The First Gothics written by Frederick S. Frank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1987 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book A Mariner s Miscellany

Download or read book A Mariner s Miscellany written by Peter H. Spectre and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is both an engaging compendium of nautical knowledge and a random accounting of the ways of the sea. It is the product of Peter H. Spectre's lifelong fascination with the sea, a guide to the good, the bad, and the ugly of a way of life that is as old as civilization.

Book Stronger Than Hate

Download or read book Stronger Than Hate written by Tim Guenard and published by Templegate Pub. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gothic Child

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  • Author : Margarita Georgieva
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2013-10-17
  • ISBN : 1137306076
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book The Gothic Child written by Margarita Georgieva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascination with the dark and death threats are now accepted features of contemporary fantasy and fantastic fictions for young readers. These go back to the early gothic genre in which child characters were extensively used by authors. The aim of this book is to rediscover the children in their work.

Book Midnight Marauders

Download or read book Midnight Marauders written by Geraldine Ann Tuck and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the early 1930s, this historical adventure highlights rumrunning along the south shore of Nova Scotia. When Dan Veinotte, son of a Canadian Preventive Service Officer boards the Martha-Rae, he discovers the town peddler, Corker, is smuggling rum. He can't tell his father because he owes Corker his life. This junior detective is determined to piece together mysterious clues to solve the Seaport secret, even if it means putting his own life on the line. Come, join Dan and his friend, Becky Wentzell, as they try to foil Percy Brown's illegal business. For things to change on the baseball lot, they must also face the town bully, Bruce Bealer.

Book Literature  Education  and Romanticism

Download or read book Literature Education and Romanticism written by Alan Richardson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-10 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging and richly detailed book Alan Richardson addresses many issues in literary and educational history never before examined together. The result is an unprecedented study of how transformations in schooling and literacy in Britain between 1780 and 1832 helped shape the provision of literature as we know it. In chapters focused on such topics as definitions of childhood, educational methods and institutions, children's literature, female education, and publishing ventures aimed at working-class adults, Richardson demonstrates how literary genres, from fairy tales to epic poems, were enlisted in an ambitious program for transforming social relations through reading and education. Themes include literary developments such as the domestic novel, a sanitized and age-stratified literature for children, the invention of 'popular' literature, and the constitution of 'Literature' itself in the modern sense. Romantic texts - by Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake, and Yearsley among others - are reinterpreted in the light of the complex historical and social issues which inform them, and which they in turn critically address.

Book Fiction for the Working Man  1830 1850

Download or read book Fiction for the Working Man 1830 1850 written by Louis James and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Albert of Werdendorff Or  the Midnight Embrace

Download or read book Albert of Werdendorff Or the Midnight Embrace written by Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This strongly moralistic and didactic tale narrates the seduction and murder of the innocent Josephine by the libertine Lord Albert. Written in 1812 by Sarah Wilkinson and published by Ann Lemoine, the chapbook is an adaptation of the ballad 'Alonzo the Brave, and Fair Imogine' by Matthew Lewis which originally appeared in The Monk in 1796. The ballad relates the woeful tale of Imogine, who promises fidelity to Alonzo, but falls in love with a wealthy baron. Alonzo, who has perished in battle, comes to reclaim his 'bride' at her wedding, dragging her to hell for breaking her promise. Wilkinson's adaptation weaves a supernatural tale with didacticism creating a moralistic thriller.An excellent example of 'Trade' Gothic, Albert of Werdendorff illustrates the transformation and adaptation of the 'canonical' Gothic during the early nineteenth century.

Book The Rise of Supernatural Fiction  1762 1800

Download or read book The Rise of Supernatural Fiction 1762 1800 written by E. J. Clery and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genre of supernatural fiction was among the more improbable products of the Age of Enlightenment. This book charts the troubled entry of the supernatural into fiction, and questions the historical reasons for its growing popularity in the late eighteenth century. Beginning with the notorious case of the Cock Lane ghost, a performing poltergeist who became a major attraction in London in 1762, and with Garrick's spellbinding and paradigmatic performance as the ghost-seeing Hamlet, it moves on to look at the Gothic novels of Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, M. G. Lewis, and others, in unexpected new lights. The central thesis concerns the connection between fictions of the supernatural and the growth of consumerism: not only are ghost stories successful commodities in the rapidly commercialising book market, they are also considered here as reflections on the disruptive effects of this socio-economic transformation.