The first vampire short story and novella, which came before Dracula, together in one Penguin Classics hardcover, a Penguin Speculative Fiction Special, with a foreword by #1 New York Times-bestselling author V. E. Schwab In the summer of 1816, a gr...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-May-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474432474)
Comprehensively surveys the vampire as a cultural phenomenon. The Vampire: An Edinburgh Companion examines the recurrent figure of the vampire from its folkloric origins, through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic liter...Daugiau...
This is an open access book.The 4th International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2023) will be held on May 1921, 2023 in Hangzhou, China. Culture includes language, which is a special cultural phenom...Daugiau...
An engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before....Daugiau...
What is it about Middle-Earth and its inhabitants that has captured the imagination of millions of people around the world? And why does Tolkiens visionary creation continue to fascinate and inspire us eighty-five years after its first publication?...Daugiau...
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An engaging, original and radical reassessment of J.R.R. Tolkien, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before....Daugiau...
An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori&;s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom&;s detailed n...Daugiau...
By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Oct-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300232233)
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An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Mar-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198814047)
Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written. It tells the dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs a...Daugiau...
Known the world over as a symbol of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack is an intricate construction based on the crosses of St, George, St, Andrew and St, Patrick. Nick Groom traces its long and fascinating past, from the development of the Roya...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Jul-2017, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198795155)
In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nat...Daugiau...
Father Schedoni is enlisted by the imperious Marchesa di Vivaldi to prevent her son from marrying the beautiful Ellena. Schedoni has no scruples in kidnapping Ellena and in undertaking whatever villainy will further his own ends. His menacing presenc...Daugiau...
He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror no...Daugiau...
Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated...Daugiau...
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For millennia, the passing seasons and their rhythms have marked our progress through the year. But what do they mean to us now that we lead increasingly atomized and urban lives and our weather becomes ever more unpredictable or extreme? Will it mat...Daugiau...
There are many interpretations of the word Gothic. Nick Groom explores the rich history and chronology of the term, bringing together various underlying and disparate elements to clarify its meaning. By examining its history, he argues that we can...Daugiau...
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As the four nations within the union are gaining increasing autonomy and the EU is expanding its influence on British politics, the Union Jack must find a new role as a positive symbol in national life or be doomed as the emblem of underwear manufact...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1764, this publication is a collection of the most remarkable trials for murder, treason, rape, sodomy, highway robbery, piracy, burglary, perjury, forgery and other crimes of 18th century England....Daugiau...
Originally published in 1764, this publication is a collection of the most remarkable trials for murder, treason, rape, sodomy, highway robbery, piracy, burglary, perjury, forgery and other crimes of 18th century England....Daugiau...
Originally published in 1764, this publication is a collection of the most remarkable trials for murder, treason, rape, sodomy, highway robbery, piracy, burglary, perjury, forgery and other crimes of 18th century England....Daugiau...
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Whilst defining the very meaning of forgery, Nick Groom ranges from the economic forgery of the 18th century to the formation of literary copyright which was established not in order to protect the nations authors but rather as a way of censoring th...Daugiau...
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The study of Shakespeare, as a cultural phenomenon as much as a playwright and poet, is an established university discipline, and a staple of study at all levels. Shakespeare has never been bigger. His plays pack theatres and he is fundamental to th...Daugiau...
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Groom (English, U. of Exeter) is joined by 15 English literature scholars to restore Thomas Chatterton to what they consider his rightful place as a seminal literary figure whose poetry, fiction, history, and forged medieval manuscripts place him at...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Sep-1999, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198184591)
In The Making of Percys Reliques, Nick Groom vividly reconstructs pioneering antiquarianism and its processes of collecting, transcribing, and collating. With meticulous scholarship, he unravels Percys working methods, examining his correspondence,...Daugiau...
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Part sensationalist crime literature, part police and witness reports, and part accounts of judicial proceedings, these four volumes were originally published in 1764 and cover over sixty years of crimes in England, from 1700 to 1764. It is a collect...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1764, this publication is a collection of the most remarkable trials for murder, treason, rape, sodomy, highway robbery, piracy, burglary, perjury, forgery and other crimes of 18th century England....Daugiau...
