Tracing the origins of how we think about strangers to the Victorian period, Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830- 1865 explores the vital role strangers had in shaping social relations during the cultural transformations of the Industrial Revolution, transportation technologies, and globalization.
A crime novel, at once disturbing and perversely comforting, factually has been known to curtail social anxieties through the 'open and shut case' of its narrative form.
Over the last decade, interreligious and interfaith studies have flourished in religion and theology departments, emphasizing the value of religious literacy for professional, vocational, and civic leadership.
Deneys Schreiner was an academic, a scientist and a man of strong liberal principles, with a good sense of humor and widespread interests in the sciences, arts and public affairs.
A crime novel, at once disturbing and perversely comforting, factually has been known to curtail social anxieties through the 'open and shut case' of its narrative form.
Using an innovative multidisciplinary approach which is deeply invested in posthumanist thought, this book demonstrates how reading science fiction shapes the way we engage with lived environments.
Whether youre looking for a new author or genre to explore, 30-Second Literature provides you with summaries of the major literary genres, styles and histories.
Las obras que han marcado una época o han dejado huella requieren el paso del tiempo para ser leídas y evaluadas con otras miradas, a la luz de conceptos que contribuyan a ponerla en perspectiva histórica y decantar su valor estético o su relevancia social.
An illuminating biographical study of the eighteenth-century English man of letters and patron of the artsHorace Walpole (1717-1797) was a collector, printer, novelist, arbiter of taste, and renowned writer of letters.
THE BOND CODE is the remarkable story of how Fleming's association with the occult world led him to create a masterful series of clever clues, ciphers and codes within his books.
Deneys Schreiner was an academic, a scientist and a man of strong liberal principles, with a good sense of humor and widespread interests in the sciences, arts and public affairs.
Using Germany as a national case study, this volume examines the historical genesis of precarity, its evolution from 19th-century industrial modernity to the present, and its reflections and reconfigurations in artistic production, in particular with relation to work, gender, and sexuality.
Tracing the origins of how we think about strangers to the Victorian period, Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830- 1865 explores the vital role strangers had in shaping social relations during the cultural transformations of the Industrial Revolution, transportation technologies, and globalization.
Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel: Senses and Sensations establishes a new analytical method in the broader context of sensory studies in order to explain how the genre of the novel can impact on our perception of ourselves and our social contexts.
Using an innovative multidisciplinary approach which is deeply invested in posthumanist thought, this book demonstrates how reading science fiction shapes the way we engage with lived environments.
The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years “Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the city as it was.
For fourteen centuries, a gap of mutual suspicion and hostility has existed between Christians and Muslims, despite attempts to engage theologically, apologetically, polemically, and militarily (such as the Crusades).
The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years “Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the city as it was.
A través de la mirada de un joven que quiere ser escritor -a caballo entre la crónica, el cuento, la epístola, el diario, la autobiografía y las memorias-, en este libro se narran las vicisitudes cotidianas; las tradiciones y costumbres; los movimientos estudiantiles; las catástrofes naturales y sociales; las tragedias familiares; la apropiación y la decadencia, ecológica y social, de los espacios citadinos; la violencia contra las mujeres y las desigualdades de género; la delincuencia y la inseguridad; las formas de sociabilidad; y las aspiraciones y frustraciones en las vidas invisibilizadas -por los medios y el discurso oficial- de habitantes de los sectores bajo y medio de la hoy ciudad de México en los años ochenta del siglo pasado y en las dos décadas anteriores.
The author of Drawing Down the Moon offers a "e;literate, imaginative, and just plain fascinating"e; exploration of the enduring allure of vampires (Whitley Strieber, author of The Hunger).
Brings together leading critics and novelists with some of the finest contemporary novels to answer probing questions about the role of the modern novel.
Eine wissenschaftlich abgesicherte Edition von Gottfrieds Tristan-Roman gehörte lange zu den größten Desideraten der germanistischen Mediävistik: Bisher gab es keine Ausgabe, die einen verlässlichen Text oder einen vollständigen Variantenapparat bot.
This study "e;adds an important voice to the growing body of Tolkien scholarship,"e; covering the author's life, influences, and original mythology (The Boston Globe).
This book examines how the vampire has always been connected to ideas of infection, pollution and disease-even more so in the 21st century where it expresses the horrors of unseen and unstoppable disease and the foreboding and anxiety that accompany viral outbreaks and wider epidemics.
A timely, accessible introduction to Margaret Atwood's most recent novels and enduring themesIn 2017, the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale introduced the acclaimed and bestselling Canadian author to a new generation and reminded Atwood's long-established readers of her uncanny prescience.
An essential guide to the life and works of Ayn Rand, the book chronicles and summarizes her writings, presents information about her national and global impact-and the response to it-and provides the most comprehensive bibliography published to date.
Having endured an initially frigid critcal reception, personal struggles with addiction, and a mid-life accident that nearly killed him, Stephen King continues to reign as perhaps the most popular and prolific writer in America.
Best remembered as the author of Joseph Andrews (1742), Tom Jones (1749) and Amelia (1751), Henry Fielding was one of the most important pioneering English novelists of the eighteenth century, and his works continue to occupy a central place in the literary canon.
