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  • Wired Different

    by Susan Chaplin ...
    Wired Different: A Mother's Memoir is my memoir about raising my intellectually challenged son, all of the experiences, the joys, the sorrows, the fears, the disappointments, the hope and the let-downs. It is an emotional, raw journey, honest and real. I tell it like it is when it comes to the failures of the system: special education, the medical world and public benefits. I share how having a ... Read more

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  • The Postmillennial Vampire

    Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives

    by Susan Chaplin ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred in contemporary culture. The figure of the vampire has captured the popular imagination to an ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Sanitation in India: Cities, Services and the State (1 Edition)

    Series Book 2 - NPSAH
    The Politics of Sanitation in India examines how the environmental problems confronting Indian cities have arisen and subsequently forced millions of people to live in illegal settlements that lack adequate sanitation, and other basic urban services. This has occurred because of two factors. The first is the legacy of the colonial city characterised by inequitable access to sanitation services, a ... Read more

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  • Freedom

    Christian and Muslim Perspectives

    A unique interreligious dialogue provides needed context for deeper understanding of interfaith relations, from ancient to modern timesFreedom is far from straightforward as a topic of comparative theology. While it is often identified with modernity and even postmodernity, freedom has long been an important topic for reflection by both Christians and Muslims, discussed in both the Bible and the ... Read more

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  • Leviticus

    Series Book 3 - Wisdom Commentary Series
    The book of Leviticus provides two different theologies related to God’s presence within ancient Israel. Leviticus 1–16 was written by an elite caste of priests (P), and Leviticus 17–26 (H) was added to the book to “democratize” access to God. While the Priestly work has hardly inspired lay readers, the Holiness Writings provide some of the most inspiring and well-known verses from the Bible.This ... Read more

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  • Haunted

    On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds

    by Leo Braudy ...
    An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created themLeo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for revealing the complex and constantly shifting history behind seemingly unchanging ideas of fame, war, and masculinity.Continuing his interest in the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction

    Edited by Jerrold E. Hogle ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Gothic

    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

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel

    by Marina MacKay ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Beginning its life as the sensational entertainment of the eighteenth century, the novel has become the major literary genre of modern times. Drawing on hundreds of examples of famous novels from all over the world, Marina MacKay explores the essential aspects of the novel and its history: where novels came from and why we read them; how we think about their styles and techniques, their people, ... Read more

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  • Gothic

    by Fred Botting ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    This enduringly popular book has become a classic in the expanding and increasingly popular field of Gothic Studies. This long awaited new edition contains a new chapter on ‘Contemporary Gothic’, an expanded section on American Gothic and more discussion of the gothic in women’s film and writing throughout the book. It is also updated in relation to media and technology with further discussion of ... Read more

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