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Author: J. Mark
Publisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781340111359
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Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: F. Potter
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230512720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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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.

Author: J. Mark
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230343464
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Languages : en
Pages : 106

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ...of mirth, or the violence of grief, because it ever seems to come deeper from the heart. The sight of the black suffused her cheeks with a blush; for what disguise is there which the eyes of a female's affection cannot penetrate? when seated with the queen to behold the army march past the banner, in the black that attended on the king she recognized Kenneth of Scotland. Richard had made the same discovery when he sucked the wound given on the arm by the fanatic's dagger, and made him think he could discover the insulter of his ensign. It was the emir that had devised and executed the change in the Scotch knight's appearance to give him an opportunity of vindicating his honour..Edith, in a voice full of emotion, told him she knew who he was, and expressed her deep sorrow that her name should have been used in a way that had caused his disgrace and misery. She waited for a reply; to her surprise he spoke not, but his face displayed his agitation. She then, in terms which left no doubt of the fervency of her feelings towards him, entreated that he would not indulge in vain hopes, for whatever her wishes might be she knew too well what was due to the name of Plantagenet ever to unite herself to any one inferior in rank. Still he was silent, though his agitation evidently became more violent. Edith began to feel indignant at his not answering, and the spirit of her house to rise within her; in a more haughty tone she demanded of Kenneth, as he did not deign to speak, what was his errand there? or if he had only come to mock her with his silence. Trembling with agony, Kenneth drew the Soldan's letter from its silken covering, and presented it to her. She opened and read it; her eyes became vivid with indignation; she said that for an infidel, ..

Author: Franz J. Potter
Publisher: Zittaw Press
ISBN: 9780975339596
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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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.

Author: Clive Bloom
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030408663
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 867

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By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic—the literature of disturbance and uncertainty—now produced works that reflected domestic fears, sexual crimes, drug filled hallucinations, the terrible secrets of middle class marriage, imperial horror at alien invasion, occult demonism and the insanity of psychopaths. It was from the 1830s onwards that the old gothic castle gave way to the country house drawing room, the dungeon was displaced by the sewers of the city and the villains of early novels became the familiar figures of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, Dorian Grey and Jack the Ripper. After the death of Prince Albert (1861), the Gothic became darker, more morbid, obsessed with demonic lovers, blood sucking ghouls, blood stained murderers and deranged doctors. Whilst the gothic architecture of the Houses of Parliament and the new Puginesque churches upheld a Victorian ideal of sobriety, Christianity and imperial destiny, Gothic literature filed these new spaces with a dread that spread like a plague to America, France, Germany and even Russia. From 1830 to 1914, the period covered by this volume, we saw the emergence of the greats of Gothic literature and the supernatural from Edgar Allan Poe to Emily Bronte, from Sheridan Le Fanu to Bram Stoker and Robert Louis Stevenson. Contributors also examine the fin-de-siècle dreamers of decadence such as Arthur Machen, M P Shiel and Vernon Lee and their obsession with the occult, folklore, spiritualism, revenants, ghostly apparitions and cosmic annihilation. This volume explores the period through the prism of architectural history, urban studies, feminism, 'hauntology' and much more. 'Horror', as Poe teaches us, 'is the soul of the plot'.

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674055527
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator, in an annotated edition that offers insights into Shelley's literary and social worlds.

Author: Jason Colavito
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078643273X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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Tracing the development of horror entertainment since the late 18th century, this study argues that scientific discovery, technological progress, and knowledge in general have played an unparalleled role in influencing the evolution of horror. Throughout its many subgenres (biological horror, cosmic horror and others) and formats (film, literature, comics), horror records humanity's uneasy relationship with its own ability to reason, understand, and learn. The text first outlines a loose framework defining several distinct periods in horror development, then explores each period sequentially by looking at the scientific and cultural background of the period, its expression in horror literature, and its expression in horror visual and performing arts.

Author: Robert I. Lublin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350351571
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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An exploration of the treatment of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in popular art and culture, this book examines adaptations in film, comics, theatre, art, video-games and more, to illuminate how the novel's myth has evolved in the two centuries since its publication. Divided into four sections, The Afterlives of Frankenstein considers the cultural dialogues Mary Shelley's novel has engaged with in specific historical moments; the extraordinary examples of how Frankenstein has suffused our cultural consciousness; and how the Frankenstein myth has become something to play with, a locus for reinvention and imaginative interpretation. In the final part, artists respond to the Frankenstein legacy today, reintroducing it into cultural circulation in ways that speak creatively to current anxieties and concerns. Bringing together popular interventions that riff off Shelley's major themes, chapters survey such works as Frankenstein in Baghdad, Bob Dylan's recent “My Own Version of You”, the graphic novel series Destroyer with its Black cast of characters, Jane Louden's The Mummy!, the first Japanese translation of Frankenstein, “The New Creator”, the iconic Frankenstein mask and Kenneth Brannagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein film. A deep-dive into the crevasses of Frankenstein adaptation and lore, this volume offers compelling new directions for scholarship surrounding the novel through dynamic critical and creative responses to Shelley's original.

Author: Franz J. Potter
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786836726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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This study is the first full-length study of the Gothic chapbook It contains a list of 400 Gothic chapbooks. The list provides bibliographical information as well as the location of the text. It provides biographical information on the publishers and booksellers involved in the development, production and dissemination of the Gothic chapbook.