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  • The Great American Gameboard

    From the Early Republic to the Gilded Age—A History in Nine Popular Board Games

    by Matthew Sivils ...
    The Great American Gameboard invites readers into the parlor rooms and gathering spaces of early Americans that have gone all but unexamined in commercial historiesBoard games are sweeping a techno-tired America. Scheduled events in bars, restaurants, and clubs that feature board games as a centerpiece sell out as soon as they’re announced. In The Great American Gameboard, Matthew Sivils, crafts a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847

    by Matthew Wynn Sivils ...
    While Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are often credited with inventing American environmental writing, Matthew Wynn Sivils argues that the works of these Transcendentalists must be placed within a larger literary tradition that has its origins in early Republic natural histories, Indian captivity narratives, Gothic novels, and juvenile literature. Authors such as William Bartram, Ann ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    Edited by Dawn Keetley, Matthew Sivils ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
    First Published in 2017. The first of its kind to address the ecogothic in American literature, this collection of fourteen articles illuminates a new and provocative literacy category, one that exists at the crossroads of the gothic and the environmental imagination, of fear and the ecosystems we inhabit. ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Sir Rohan’s Ghost. A Romance

    by Harriet Prescott Spofford ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature
    Originally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel ‘Sir Rohan’s Ghost’ by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), one of nineteenth-century America’s most significant woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British aristocrat who struggles to retain his sanity while suffering horrifying visitations from the spectre of his dead lover amid the agonies of an already fragile mind. Setting ... Read more

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  • Sir Rohans Ghost. A Romance

    by Harriet Prescott Spofford ...
    Series series
    Originally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel ‘Sir Rohan’s Ghost’ by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), one of nineteenth-century America’s most significant woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British aristocrat who struggles to retain his sanity while suffering horrifying visitations from the spectre of his dead lover amid the agonies of an already fragile mind. Setting ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sir Rohans Ghost. A Romance

    by Harriet Prescott Spofford ...
    Series series
    Originally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel ‘Sir Rohan’s Ghost’ by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), one of nineteenth-century America’s most significant woman writers, relates the tale of a tormented British aristocrat who struggles to retain his sanity while suffering horrifying visitations from the spectre of his dead lover amid the agonies of an already fragile mind. Setting ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Of Wilderness and Wolves

    by Paul L. Errington ...
    Series series Bur Oak Book
    “I was a predator, myself, and lived close to the land.” With these words, Paul L. Errington begins this lost classic. Now in print for the first time, the book celebrates a key predator: the wolf. One of the most influential biologists of the twentieth century, Errington melds his expertise in wildlife biology with his love for natural beauty to create a visionary and often moving re-examination ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    by Freeman Tilden ...
    Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefields, historic houses, and museums. By means of guided walks and talks, tours, exhibits, and signs, visitors experience these areas through a very special kind of communication technique known as “interpretation.” For fifty years, Freeman Tilden’s Interpreting Our Heritage has been an ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Arthur Machen Collected Works

    23 Tales of Horror & Other Fiction Short Stories

    by Arthur Machen ...
    "Arthur Machen Collected Works" is a collection of 23 horror tales and Other Fiction Short Stories by Arthur Machen. This is the biggest collection available as a single title.Included in this collection:The Great God PanThe Shining PyramidThe Three ImpostersThe Novel of the Black SealThe Novel of the White PowderThe Red HandThe Hill of DreamsThe White PeopleThe Angels of MonsThe Bowme... ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • Slavery and the Culture of Taste

    by Simon Gikandi ...
    It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Gothic Short Stories

    by David Blair, David Blair, David Stuart Davies ...
    Series series Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural
    Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury.Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write ‘Gothic’ stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which had been neglected in the ‘Age of Reason’.This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of ... Read more

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  • Wonder Tales

    Six Stories of Enchantment

    by Marina Warner ...
    Marina Warner has gathered together a magical collection of fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries. These are passionate, extraordinary, and occasionally proto-feminist retellings of classic fairy stories by women who ingeniously used the fairy tale genre to comment on their own times and experiences. The stories are all in superb new translations by celebrated ... Read more

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