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  • Our Vampires, Ourselves

    by Nina Auerbach ...
    This "vigorous, witty look at the undead as cultural icons in 19th- and 20th-century England and America" examines the many meanings of the vampire myth ( Kirkus Reviews).From Byron's Lord Ruthven to Anne Rice's Lestat to the black bisexual heroine of Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories, vampires have taken many forms, capturing and recapturing our imaginations for centuries. In Our Vampires, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Forbidden Journeys

    Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers

    Edited by Nina Auerbach, U. C. Knoepflmacher ...
    This "darkly entertaining" story collection is "a significant contribution to nineteenth-century cultural history, and especially feminist studies" ( United Press International).In the 1870s and 1880s, children's literature saw some astonishingly bold and innovative writing by women authors. As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Nature, Politics, and the Arts

    Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring

    by Nina Auerbach, John Clubbe, Carl Dawson, William Theodore de Bary, George H. Gilpin, William Carl Gilpin, Jonathan Gross, Regina Hewitt, Steven E. Jones, Marsha Manns, Martin Meisel, Morton D. Paley, Robert L. Patten, Donald H. Reiman, Ben P. Robertson, Robert M. Ryan, G. Thomas Tanselle, Carol Kyros Walker, Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace, Anne K. Mellor ...
    This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in conversation with Woodring’s teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American culture. A multiple-authored chapter of postscripts on the aesthetic range of Woodring’s intellectual ... Read more

    $103.69 USD

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    Our Vampires, Ourselves

    by Nina Auerbach ...
    Narrated by Auto-narrated ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 21 min

    Nina Auerbach shows how every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach locates vampires at the heart of our national experience and uses them as a lens for viewing the last two hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history.“[Auerbach] has seen more Hammer movies than I (or the monsters) ... Read more

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    Forbidden Journeys

    Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers

    by Nina Auerbach, U. C. Knoepflmacher ...
    Narrated by Auto-narrated ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 53 min

    As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s adaptations of “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” to Christina Rossetti’s unsettling antifantasies in Speaking Likenesses, these are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns ... Read more

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    Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius

    by Niccolo Machiavelli ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 3 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This essay explores how cities are founded and what determines their long-term success, using Rome as the central example of enduring greatness. It argues that cities emerge either from local populations uniting for security or from outsiders such as colonists, rulers, or migrating peoples. Those founded freely and out of necessity—rather than imposed ... Read more

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  • The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy

    Hogwarts for Muggles

    Edited by William Irwin, Gregory Bassham ...
    Series Book 7 - The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    A philosophical exploration of the entire seven-book Harry Potter seriesHarry Potter has been heralded as one of the most popular book series of all time and the philosophical nature of Harry, Hermione, and Ron's quest to rid the world of its ultimate evil is one of the many things that make this series special. The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy covers all seven titles in J.K. Rowling's ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

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  • Harry Potter's Bookshelf

    The Great Books behind the Hogwarts Adventures

    by John Granger ...
    Harry Potter. The name conjures up J.K. Rowling's wondrous world of magic that has captured the imaginations of millions on both the printed page and the silver screen with bestselling novels and blockbuster films. The true magic found in this children's fantasy series lies not only in its appeal to people of all ages but in its connection to the greater world of classic literature.Harry Potter's ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter

    Edited by Elizabeth E. Heilman ...
    This thoroughly revised edition includes updated essays on cultural themes and literary analysis, and its new essays analyze the full scope of the seven-book series as both pop cultural phenomenon and as a set of literary texts. Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter, Second Edition draws on a wider range of intellectual traditions to explore the texts, including moral-theological analysis, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Essays on Harry Potter

    by Leann Richards ...
    Three essays about Harry Potter which show that J K Rowling has much in common with Dickens and that the books promote traditional family values. ... Read more

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  • The Everything Vampire Book

    From Vlad the Impaler to the vampire Lestat - a history of vampires in Literature, Film, and Legend

    by Barb Karg, Arjean Spaite, Rick Sutherland ...
    Series series Everything® Series
    • An affordable, accessible companion to vampire literature, films, and TV • Several vampire movies are due out in 2008 and 2009: Twilight, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, and The Historian • Vampire communities are flourishing on the Internet—a simple “vampire societies” search on Google yields over 580,000 results • Everything reference books have sold more than 575,000 copies! Bram Stoker’s ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling, the first book in the bestselling series. In the novel, we are introduced to the Boy Who Lived and the wizarding world, which is inhabited by a range of ... Read more

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