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  • The Wildness Pleases (Routledge Revivals)

    The Origins of Romanticism

    by Christopher Thacker ...
    First published in 1983. This book charts the growth of Romanticism from the initial reactions to the authoritarian classicism of Louis XIV, through the ‘codification’ of the Sublime by Burke in the 1750s, to the fascination with mystery, fear and violence which dominated the writing of the late eighteenth century. The origins of the movement are found in the writings of Rousseau and admiration ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (M.A Classics)

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890. Wilde was attacked for his decadence and corrupting ... Read more

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  • Northanger Abbey

    by Jane Austen ...
    Catherine Morland, aged seventeen, is addicted to reading Gothic novels. She joins her wealthier neighbours on a trip to Bath to partake in the winter season of balls, and finds herself pursued by the rather rough-mannered, slovenly John Thorpe, and by her real love interest, Henry Tilney. Henry's father invites Catherine to visit their estate, Northanger Abbey, which she expects to be ancient and ... Read more

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  • The Gothic Wanderer

    From Transgression to Redemption; Gothic Literature from 1794 - present

    by Tyler R. Tichelaar ...
    The Gothic Wanderer Rises Eternal in Popular LiteratureFrom the horrors of sixteenth century Italian castles to twenty-first century plagues, from the French Revolution to the liberation of Libya, Tyler R. Tichelaar takes readers on far more than a journey through literary history. The Gothic Wanderer is an exploration of man's deepest fears, his efforts to rise above them for the last two ... Read more

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  • Why the Romantics Matter

    by Peter Gay ...
    Series series Why X Matters Series
    With his usual wit and élan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition of romanticism and provides a fresh account of the immense achievements of romantic writers and artists in all media.Gay’s scope is wide, his insights sharp. He takes on the recurring questions ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism

    The Haunting Interval

    by Luke Thurston ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era. Linking little-studied authors like M. R. James and May Sinclair to such canonical figures as Dickens, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Immortal Comedy

    The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life

    by Agnes Heller ...
    Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In both its subject and style, Immortal Comedy is a seminal book. In it, Heller takes us on a journey ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Miniature Metropolis

    Literature in an Age of Photography and Film

    by Andreas Huyssen ...
    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe’s modernizing metropolises offered a sensory experience unlike anything that had come before. Cities became laboratories bubbling with aesthetic experimentation in old and new media, and from this milieu emerged metropolitan miniatures—short prose pieces about the experiences of urban life written for European newspapers. Miniature ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Chaos Imagined

    Literature, Art, Science

    by Martin Meisel ...
    The stories we tell in our attempt to make sense of the world—our myths and religion, literature and philosophy, science and art—are the comforting vehicles we use to transmit ideas of order. But beneath the quest for order lies the uneasy dread of fundamental disorder. True chaos is hard to imagine and even harder to represent. In this book, Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Doppelganger

    Literature's Philosophy

    by Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    The Doppelgänger or Double presents literature as the "double" of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelgänger is literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity. The Doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of Idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality and human agency. This critique ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Adventures in Paradox

    Don Quixote and the Western Tradition

    by Charles D. Presberg ...
    Series series Studies in Romance Literatures
    Cervantes’s Don Quixote confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers: Does the text pursue a serious or comic purpose? Does it promote the truth of history and the untruth of fiction, or the truth of poetry and the fictiveness of truth itself? In a book that will revise the way we read and debate Don Quixote, Charles D. Presberg ... Read more

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  • The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine

    by Corinne Saunders, David Fuller ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD