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  • Violence in the Films of Stephen King

    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    In Violence in the Films of Stephen King, contributors analyze the theme of violence in the film adaptations of Stephen King’s work—ranging from the earliest films in the King canonto his most recent iterations—through a variety of lenses. Investigating the diverse and varying roles that violence continues to play as both the level of violence and the gendered depictions of violence have evolved, ... Read more

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  • 9/11 Gothic

    Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels

    Series series Reading Trauma and Memory
    Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels returns to the ruins and anguish of 9/11 to pose a question not yet addressed by scholarship. Two time World Fantasy Award-winning writer Danel Olson asks how, why, and where New York City novels capture the terror of the Al-Qaeda ... Read more

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  • 21st-Century Gothic

    Great Gothic Novels Since 2000

    Edited by professor Danel Olson ...
    Selected by a poll of more than 180 Gothic specialists (creative writers, professors, critics, and Gothic Studies program developers at universities), the fifty-three original works discussed in 21st-Century Gothic represent the most impressive Gothic novels written around the world between 2000-2010. The essays in this volume discuss the merits of these novels, highlighting the influences and key ... Read more

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    After the war McNeile left the army and continued writing, although he changed from war stories to thrillers. In 1920 he published Bulldog Drummond, whose eponymous hero became his best-known creation. The character was based on McNeile himself, on his friend Gerard Fairlie and on English gentlemen generally.McNeile interspersed his Drummond work with other novels and story collections that ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Literary fashions come and go, but some hang around longer than others, like Gothic literature which has existed ever since The Castle of Otranto in 1764. During this long while, it has spread from England, to the rest of Great Britain, and across to the continent, and off to America and Australia, filling in the gaps more recently. Most of it is in English, but hardly all, and it has adopted all ... Read more

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  • Writers on Writing Vol.3

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  • Thomas De Quincey

    The Prose of Vision

    by V.A. De Luca ...
    Series series Heritage
    Thomas De Quincey: The Prose of Vision is the first full-length critical study of De Quincey's imaginative writings. Considering these writings as a 'prose of vision' transcending their origins in magazine journalism, the author stresses their relationship to the Romantic traditions of imaginative vision and inward quest. He traces continuing themes and their transformations throughout De Quincey ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare Survey: Volume 65, A Midsummer Night's Dream

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    Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, the Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major ... Read more

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    Current Public Concerns in 21st-Century British Drama

    Edited by Kerstin Frank, Caroline Lusin ...
    Series Book 82 - Mannheimer Beiträge zur Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
    This collection of essays examines the contribution of British plays to key social, political, and intellectual debates since 2000. It explores some of the most pressing concerns that have dominated the public discourse in Britain in the last decade, focusing on their representation in dramatic texts. Each essay provides an in-depth analysis of one play, assessing its particular contribution to ... Read more

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  • Laurence Sterne and the Visual Imagination

    by W.B. Gerard ...
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