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  • Cornish Gothic, 1830-1913

    by Joan Passey ...
    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    This book asks why so many authors drew on Cornwall for inspiration across the long nineteenth century, and considers the seismic cultural changes in Cornwall that spurred this interest – from the collapse of the mining industry to the developing national rail network; from the birth of tourism to the neomedieval rise in interest in King Arthur. Understanding frequently overlooked Cornwall in this ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Directions in the Ghost Story, Volume I

    Edited by Henry Bartholomew, Joan Passey, Jen Baker ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book provides an exciting and informed overview of new, emerging, and radical approaches to the long ghost story tradition. Interrogating established canons and recurring modes of ghost story analysis, New Directions explores where academic criticism of the genre stands today, and where it might be heading next. The first substantial project of its kind in the field, this two-volume set ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

  • Shirley Jackson’s Dark Tales

    Reconsidering the Short Fiction

    Edited by Dr Joan Passey, Dr Robert Lloyd ...
    The first dedicated exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson for three decades, this volume takes an in-depth look at the themes and legacies of her 200-plus short stories. Recognized as the mother of contemporary horror, scholars from across the globe, and from a range of different disciplinary backgrounds, dig into the lasting impact of her work in light of its increasing relevance to ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century

    by Carina Bissett, M. Keith Booker, Kevin Corstorphine, Ian Fetters, Gemma Files, Teresa Fitzpatrick, Jacob Floyd, Neil Jackson, Mikel J. Koven, Carlos Littles, Natasha C. Marchini, Joan Passey, Gwyneth Peaty, Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Angela Marie Smith, Erik Steinskog, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Maisha Wester, Brandon R. Grafius, Kevin J. Wetmore,Jr., John Edgar Browning, Laura R. Kremmel ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience’s experience of being in the world at a particular historical and cultural moment. This book not only provides frameworks with which to understand contemporary horror, but it also speaks to the changes wrought by technological development in creation, production, and ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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  • The Routledge Companion to Gothic

    Edited by Catherine Spooner, Emma McEvoy ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential guide explores the world of Gothic in all its myriad forms throughout the mid-eighteenth Century to the internet age.The Routledge Companion to Gothic includes discussion on:the history of Gothicgothic throughout the English-speaking world i.e. London and USA as well as the ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature

    Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edited by M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... Read more

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  • Gothic Britain

    Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles

    Edited by William Hughes, Ruth Heholt ...
    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is informed by, the British regional experience. Acknowledging how the so-called United Kingdom has historically been divided on nationalistic lines, the twelve original essays in this volume interrogate the interplay of ideas and generic innovations generated in the spaces between the nominal kingdom and ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature

    Edited by W. Michelle Wang, Neil Murphy, Daniel Jernigan ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling, Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift, and Ira Nadel, as well as the work of a generation ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Neo-Gothic Narratives

    Illusory Allusions from the Past

    Edited by Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres ...
    Recent years have seen the strong development of Neo-Victorian studies, including its theorisation by such scholars as Cora Kaplan, Sally Shuttleworth, Ann Heilmann, Christian Gutleben, Marie-Louise Kohlke, Mark Llewellyn and others. It is a focus that has engaged literary critics from around the globe like Carmen Veronica Borbély (Romania), Susanne Gruß (Germany), Tiffany Gagliardi Trotman (Spain ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strategies of Silence

    Reflections on the Practice and Pedagogy of Creative Writing

    Edited by Moy McCrory, Simon Heywood ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Creative Writing
    This unique book takes silence as its central concept and questions the range of meanings and values which inform the idea as it impinges on the creative process and its content and contexts.The thematic core of silence allows a consideration of silencing and silence as opposite ends of a spectrum: one shutting down, the other enabling and opening up. As a multidisciplinary collection of essays ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story

    Edited by Scott Brewster, Luke Thurston ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Handbooks
    The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years, centring on the ghost story and bringing together a vast range of interpretive methods and theoretical perspectives. The main task of the volume is to properly situate the genre within historical and contemporary literary cultures across the globe, and ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD